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How regulation might fail to reduce energy consumption while still stimulating total factor productivity growth
Bansal, Sangeeta; Filippini, Massimo; Srinivasan, Suchita - 2023 - Last revision: January 27, 2023
manufacturing sectors in India, on the total factor productivity (TFP) growth of firms and on its components, scale efficiency and …
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The Economics of Hydro-Meteorological Disasters : Approaching the Estimation of the Total Costs
Balbi, Stefano - 2013
Hydro-meteorological disasters have caused increasing losses in recent years. Efficient risk reduction policies require accurate assessment approaches, with careful consideration of costs, beyond direct tangible costs, which are commonly used in practice. Faced with possible risk reduction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076999
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Modeling Uncertainty in Climate Change : A Multi‐Model Comparison
Gillingham, Kenneth; Nordhaus, William D.; Anthoff, David; … - 2015
factor productivity, and climate sensitivity. It estimates the pdfs of key output variables, including CO2 concentrations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014133105
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Accounting for Greenhouse Gases in the Standard Productivity Framework
Harchaoui, Tarek M. - 2013
The method that Canada and other developed countries use to measure productivity growth generally ignores the … of production processes, are excluded from the productivity accounting framework. This study proposes an extended … productivity measure that takes pollutants into account. It illustrates how it can be applied using carbon dioxide emissions. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095940
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Capital Regulation as Climate Policy
Michaels, Joel - 2023
Federal banking regulators are grappling with how to confront the threats posed by climate change. There are increasingly loud calls for regulators to adjust the “risk-weights” used to calculate banks’ minimum capital requirements based on how exposed their counterparties are to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014257201
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Inciting Protocols - How International Environmental Agreements Trigger Knowledge Transfers
Dekker, Thijs; Vollebergh, Herman R.J.; de Vries, Frans P. - 2009
This paper studies patenting decisions by firms in relation to the negotiation and signing of the Helsinki and Oslo protocol as part of the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution. We use a uniquely constructed patent data set on SO2 abatement technologies filed in 15 signatory and...
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Invention and transfer of climate change mitigation technologies on a global scale: A study drawing on patent data
Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Glachant, Matthieu; … - 2009
Climate Change ; Mitigation Technologies ; Patent Data
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279474
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Green growth and equity in the context of climate change: Some considerations
Sachs, Jeffrey D.; Someshwar, Shiv - 2012
Green growth entails several different kinds of processes: conversion to low-carbon energy, climate resilience, and response to climate shocks. Equity implies a fair sharing of the costs, within countries and between countries. The authors set out to explore some of the ways that equity has been...
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Linkage of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Systems: Learning from Experience
Ranson, Matthew; Stavins, Robert N. - 2014
The last ten years have seen the growth of linkages between many of the world s cap-and-trade systems for greenhouse gases (GHGs), both directly between systems, and indirectly via connections to credit systems such as the Clean Development Mechanism. If nations have tried to act in their own...
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Reducing resource consumption : a proposal for global resource and environmental policy
Ekins, Paul; Meyer, Bernd; Schmidt-Bleek, Friedrich - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003935704