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Climate, Entropy and Environment
Bennewitz, Jürgen - 2010
Based on the Publications of the IPCC Working Groups I to III the question of the influence of the entropy increase since the industrialization around 1750 on the current climate development is answered both in general terms as well as through a first quantitative approach. It is shown that the...
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Community-Based Incentives for Environmental Protection : The Case of Green Electricity
Jacobsen, Grant; J. Kotchen, Matthew; Clendennig, Greg - 2023
municipal photovoltaic installations in proportion to the number of households that voluntarily purchase green electricity. We … find that the program causes a 22-percent increase in the number of households purchasing green electricity in CCEC … kilowatt-hour of annual green-electricity demand, and $113 per ton of annual carbon-dioxide emission reductions …
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How green are economists?
Carattini, Stefano; Tavoni, Alessandro - 2016
emissions from business travel are still not offset. This paper exploits a unique dataset examining the decision to purchase …
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Chapter 7. Quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics: Opportunities and challenges
Deschenes, Olivier; Meng, Kyle C. - In: Handbook of environmental economics : Volume 4, (pp. 285-332). 2018
This paper examines the application of quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics. We begin with two observations: (i) standard quasi-experimental methods, first applied in other microeconomic fields, typically assume unit-level treatments that do not spill over across units; (ii)...
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William Nordhaus : a pioneer
Kolstad, Charles D. - In: Climate change economics 11 (2020) 4, pp. 1-7
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How does green finance asymmetrically affect greenhouse gas emissions? : evidence from the top-ten green bond issuer countries
Li, Changzheng; Faridi, Muhammad Zahir; Nazar, Raima - In: Borsa Istanbul Review 23 (2023) 4, pp. 887-894
The present study analyzes the asymmetric association between green finance and greenhouse gas emissions in the top ten countries that support green finance (China, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, the UK, and the US). Previous research employed panel data methods,...
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To Starve or to Stoke? : Understanding Whether Divestment vs. Investment Can Steer (Green) Innovation
Pless, Jacquelyn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
More than 1,500 organizations and investors representing over $40 trillion in assets have committed to fossil fuel divestment to combat climate change. Will it work? This chapter explores whether divestment might induce green innovation, a critical component of transitioning to a cleaner...
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Chapter 24. Environmental Macroeconomics
Hassler, J.; Krusell, P.; Smith, A.A. - In: Handbook of macroeconomics : volume 2, v. 2A-2B SET, (pp. 1893-2008). 2016
We discuss climate change and resource scarcity from the perspective of macroeconomic modeling and quantitative evaluation. Our focus is on climate change: we build a very simple “integrated assessment model,” ie, a model that integrates the global economy and the climate in a unified...
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Market Design for the Environment
Cantillon, Estelle; Slechten, Aurélie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The main argument in favor of markets in environmental contexts is the same as in other contexts: their ability to promote efficient allocations and production. But environmental problems bring their own challenges: their underlying bio-physical processes - and the technologies to monitor them -...
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Environmentally adjusted multifactor productivity : Accounting for renewable natural resources and ecosystem services
Cárdenas Rodríguez, Miguel - 2023
Multifactor productivity is a comprehensive measure of productivity where the underlying production function accounts for multiple factor inputs, traditionally labour and produced capital. While single-factor productivity is intuitively simple, such measure offers a biased picture of the economy...
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