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In the past years biofuels have received increased attention since they were believed to contribute to rural development, energy security and to fight global warming. It became also clear, though, that bioenergy cannot be evaluated independently of the rest of the economy and that national and...
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, affects the role of discounting. I argue that the assertion that the risk of catastrophic damage overwhelms discounting is …. climate change ; discounting ; intergenerational conflict ; catastrophic risk ; hyperbolic discounting …
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Marine and permafrost-based methane hydrates are the largest existing fossil carbon resource, whereby the marine deposits far outweigh the terrestrial ones. Their broad geographic distribution, especially in comparison to oil and conventional gas, make them a promising future source of energy....
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Reducing greenhouse gas emissions not only lowers expected damages from climate change but also reduces the risk of … abatement, often do not capture this risk reduction benefit. Risk-averse individuals are willing to pay a risk premium, an … obtained for calculating a risk premium to be included in the social cost of carbon. While more research is needed in this area …
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risk of catastrophic impacts. However, estimates of the social cost of carbon, which measures the marginal value of carbon … dioxide abatement, often do not capture this risk reduction benefit. Risk-averse individuals are willing to pay a risk premium … estimates obtained for calculating a risk premium to be included in the social cost of carbon. While more research is needed in …
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Well-intended policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions may have unintended undesirable consequences. Recently, a large literature has emerged showing under what conditions this so-called 'Green Paradox' may occur. We review this literature and identify the key mechanisms behind these...
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A healthy financial system encourages the efficient allocation of capital and risk. The collapse of the house price … stochastic optimal control (SOC)/dynamic risk management is a much more effective approach to determine the optimal degree of … leverage, the optimum and excessive risk and the probability of a debt crisis. The theoretically founded early warning signals …
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In competition law, the problem of the optimal design of institutional and procedural rules concerns assessment processes of the pro- and anticompetitiveness of business behaviors. This is well recognized in the discussion about the relative merits of different assessment principles such as the...
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Agriculture and forestry play an important role in emitting and storing greenhouse gases. For an efficient and cost-effective climate policy it is therefore important to explicitly include land use, land use change, and forestry (LULUCF) in economy-climate models. This paper gives an overview...
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Agriculture and forestry play an important role in emitting and storing greenhouse gases. For an efficient and cost-effective climate policy it is therefore important to explicitly include land use, land use change, and forestry (LULUCF) in economyclimate models. This paper gives an overview and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003544556