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Enabling or Hampering? Climate Risk and the Role of Finance in the Low-Carbon Transition
Battiston, Stefano; Monasterolo, Irene; Min, Jihoon; … - 2021
system in the low-carbon transition can lead to a large underestimation of climate transition risk. The set of scenarios that … financial supervisors recommended to investors to analyse climate transition risk include scenarios labelled as ‘disorderly … reshaped depending on the timing and the extent by which financial actors assess climate risk …
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Firm-Level Risk of Climate Change : Evidence from Climate Disasters
Ai, Li; Silva Gao, Lucia - 2023
, suggesting that this risk is somewhat unpredictable and undiversifiable. Furthermore, geographic dispersion increases firms …
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COVID-19 and EU climate targets: going further with less?
Meles, Tensay Hadush; Ryan, Lisa; Wheatley, Joe - 2020
The COVID-19 crisis comes at a complex moment for European climate policy as it pivots from a 40% 2030 emissions reduction target to a European Green Deal that is in better alignment with long-term Paris Agreement goals. Here, the implications of the dramatic fall in economic output associated...
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From fossil fuels to renewables : studies on the effects of resource endowments and climate policy on economic outcomes
Montoya Gómez, Ana Maria - 2020
This doctoral thesis, organized in three self-contained chapters, provides an analysis of the economic effects associated with the extraction of natural resources and the transition from an economy based on fossil fuel use to an economy relying primarily on renewable energy sources. Chapter 1...
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Assessing the effects of climate policy on companies' greenhouse gas emissions
Montoya Gómez, Ana Maria; Zimmer, Markus - 2017 - September 4, 2017
We study the effect of climate policy on companies' greenhouse gas emissions using emissions data for the headquarters and subsidiaries of the world's biggest manufacturing, energy, and utility companies. Our results suggest that financial incentives and legal requirements to audit energy use...
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The green paradox in open economies
Long, Ngo Van - 2014
This paper explains how, in the context of incomplete coordination among all countries, unilateral policies that might at first sight seem pro-green could actually turn out to harm the global environment. The free-riding motives and the difficulty of reaching an effective international...
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Subsidizing human capital to overcome the green paradox : a demand-side approach
Steinkraus, Arne - 2016
This paper shifts the perspective of the recent green paradox literature towards the demand side. Based on a simple model, I show that a subsidy on input factors in a Cobb-Douglas production function may contribute substantially to postponing resource extraction into the future and, thereby, to...
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Economic implications of EU mitigation policies : domestic and international effects
Bosello, Francesco; Davide, Marinella; Alloisio, Isabella - 2016
The EU has a consolidated climate and energy regulation: it played a pioneering role by adopting a wide range of climate change policies and establishing the first regional Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS). These policies, however, raise several concerns regarding both their environmental...
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Shift towards a low-carbon economy : an impact of support under operational programmes on climate and energy targets
Ptak, Michał - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 16 (2016) 1, pp. 85-102
The aim of the analysis is to estimate the impact of Cohesion Policy in the programming period 2014-2020 on the EU climate and energy targets in 9 chosen European countries and on transition into low-carbon economies. The paper discusses benefits expected at the beginning of the 2014-2020...
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Climate change mitigation : how effective is green quantitative easing?
Abiry, Raphael; Ferdinandusse, Marien; Ludwig, Alexander; … - 2022
We develop a two sector incomplete markets integrated assessment model to analyse the effectiveness of green quantitative easing (QE) in complementing fiscal policies for climate change mitigation. We model green QE through an outstanding stock of private assets held by a monetary authority and...
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