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Climate change, carbon prices and insurance systems

Phelan, Liam; Henderson-Sellers, Ann; Taplin, Ros - 2010

Market approaches to limit CO2e emissions such as carbon taxes and emissions trading schemes (ETSs) aim to avoid dangerous anthropogenic climate change by ascribing a financial cost to emissions. Yet such approaches have failed to establish either emissions limits or carbon prices equal to the...

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Understanding knowledge management and organizational adaptation and the influencing effects of trust and industrial cluster.

Niu, Kuei-Hsien - 2008

organizational adaptation, while the independent variables were knowledge management, trust and industrial cluster. Data were … does have significant influence on organizational adaptation and both industrial cluster and trust impact on organizational …

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Adaptation, Internalization and Environmental Damage

Abrego, Lisandro; Whalley, John - 2002

Existing literature ignores adaptation responses to external effects which, in turn, affect the design of appropriate …. Results show that not taking adaptation responses to environmental damage into account can seriously mislead analyzes of the … consequences of internalizing externalities. If adaptation is present, externalities will be partially internalized, the gains from …

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Implementing Vanilla ERP Systems: Factors to Consider in Strategy, Business Alignment, and Customization

Yick, Janice - 2011

strategic and cost implications, organizational adaptation to ERP functionality, deploying strategies to minimize customizations …

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Optimal Test for Parameter Instability When the Unstable Process and the Error Distribution are Unknown

Lee, Dong Jin - 2008

This paper proposes asymptotically optimal tests for unstable parameter process under the feasible circumstance that the researcher has little information about the unstable parameter process and the error distribution, and suggests conditions under which the knowledge of those processes does...

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Submission to the Senate Education, Employment and Workplace Relations Committee – Inquiry Into the Effects of Climate Change on Training and Employment Needs

Hampson, Keith D.; Furneaux, Craig W.; Scuderi, Peter - 2008

the built environment. The planned successor to this CRC – the Sustainable Built Environment Centre will further progress environmental sustainability for the built environment as the Centre’s future is confirmed in early 2009. We would like to thank the Senate Committee for the opportunity...

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Managing catastrophic risk by alternative risk transfer instruments

Ou Yang, Chieh - 2010

Chapter 1 analyzes hybrid-trigger CAT bonds, a new CAT bond deal that can reduce basis risk and eliminate moral hazard simultaneously. It is the first research that provides analytical evidence on the condition under which the hybrid trigger has lower basis risk. Simulation results support my...

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MANAGING CATASTROPHIC RISK BY ALTERNATIVE RISK TRANSFER INSTRUMENTS

Ou Yang, Chieh - 2010

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CLIMATE CHANGE AND PRODUCTION RISK IN CHINESE AQUACULTURE

Holst, Rainer; Yu, Xiaohua - 2010

Drawing on the method developed by Just and Pope (1978, 1979), this paper separately analyzes the marginal contributions of both regular input factors and climate factors to mean output and to production risk in Chinese inland aquaculture. Furthermore, the net change in output following a 1°C...

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ASSESSING THE IMPACTS OF CAP-AND-TRADE CLIMATE POLICY ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS IN THE NORTHERN PLAINS: A POLICY SIMULATION WITH FARMER PREFERENCES AND ADAPTATION

Jiang, Yong; Koo, Won W. - 2010

carbon offset provision and ability of adaptation to mitigate the production cost impact under a cap-and-trade climate policy …

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