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Der Klimawandel führt zum einen dazu, dass extreme Witterungsverhältnisse, wie sehr starker Niederschlag im Winter und Frühjahr und damit mögliche Überflutungen, sowie sehr heiße Sommer mit wenig Niederschlägen zunehmen werden. Zum anderen hat der Klimawandel Auswirkungen auf die...
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The European Unionś (EU) Renewable Energy Directive (RED) continues to be the focus of much debate over the validity of biofuel sustainability. The debate is driven in part by ongoing concerns of transparency and regional variations of emissions from feedstock cultivation and processing. In a...
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Conditional incentives are a promising complementary approach to conserve tropical forests, for example, in multiple-use protected areas. In this paper we analyze the environmental impacts of Bolsa Floresta, a forest conservation program that combines direct conditional payments with...
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In this paper, we analyse the impact of political economy factors on the production of bioenergy. We theoretically and empirically show that the quality of governance and environmental policy stringency instruments promote the development of bioenergy production. We also find that the factors...
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Who benefits from market-based environmental policies? To shed light on this question, we investigate the environmental and distributional consequences of regional cap-and-trade programs to mitigate sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from U.S. power plants. Using double and triple differences,...
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. Decreased uncertainty as well as increases in consumer confidence and share prices explain these large effects, whereas these …
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. Decreased uncertainty as well as increases in consumer confidence and share prices explain these large effects, whereas these …
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We propose a new framework for measuring uncertainty and its effects on the economy, based on a large VAR model with … financial uncertainty. The uncertainty measures can also influence the levels of the variables so that, contrary to most … economy can be assessed within the same framework. Moreover, identification of the uncertainty shocks is simplified with …
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We propose a new framework for measuring uncertainty and its effects on the economy, based on a large VAR model with … financial uncertainty. The uncertainty measures can also influence the levels of the variables so that, contrary to most … economy can be assessed within the same framework. Moreover, identification of the uncertainty shocks is simplified with …
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uncertainty on climate policies that have become an important factor affecting business operations. This paper uses a fixed …-effects model to study the role of climate policy uncertainty on the financialization of China's A-share listed enterprises. Our … results find that a rise in climate policy uncertainty has a dampening effect on corporate financialization, while energy …
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