Foreword -- Part I Theoretical Framework of Climate Change Economics -- Chapter 1. Complexity of Climate Change as a Subject in Economics -- Chapter 2. A Critique of Conventional Economic Approaches to Climate Change -- Chapter 3. Climate as a Factor of Productivity -- Chapter 4. A Welfare...

An increasing proportion of greenhouse gas emissions is produced in urban areas in industrializing and developing countries. Recent research shows that per capita emissions in cities like Bangkok, Cape Town or Shanghai have already reached the level of cities like London, New York or Toronto....

Using an applied general equilibrium model, we explore the impacts of uniform reduction targets, a uniform carbon tax, and permit trading in the Annex 1 countries for the period 2000-2020. Next, we assess the impacts of enlarging the A-1 coalition to the globe, and allow for global permit...

We study how the catastrophic 2011 Thailand flood affected Swedish firms that imported from Thailand. Output by exposed firms dropped by 8\% in 2012. In aggregate, this translates into a 1.08 billion SEK drop in Thai imports for these firms, which translated into over 29.7 billion SEK in lost...