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Sacrifice, discounting and climate policy : five questions
Karp, Larry S. - 2009
I offer a selective review of discounting and climate policy. Analytic and numerical models show that different assumptions greatly change the degree to which decisions about climate policy depend on the discount rate. I discuss a claim that standard models exaggerate the current generation's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872837
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Risk premia and the social cost of carbon : a review
Kousky, Carolyn; Kopp, Robert E.; Cooke, Roger - 2011
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions not only lowers expected damages from climate change but also reduces the 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009159729
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Risk premia and the social cost of carbon : a review
Kousky, Carolyn; Kopp, Robert E.; Cooke, Roger M. - 2011
Abstract Reducing greenhouse gas emissions not only lowers expected damages from climate change but also reduces the 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009520355
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Trust, growth and well-being : new evidence and policy implications
Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - 2013
This survey reviews the recent research on trust, institutions and growth. It discusses the various measures of trust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009763283
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Potentiale und Risiken der Nutzung von Methan aus Methanhydraten als Energieträger
Groth, Markus - 2009
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003924134
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Contribution of health to economic development : a survey and overview
Husain, Muhammad Jami - 2009
economic outcomes. -- Health ; income ; economic growth ; life expectancy ; mortality ; causality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003875338
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Cross-country growth empirics and model uncertainty : an overview
Ulașan, Bülent - 2011
The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of empirical cross-country growth literature. The paper begins by … describing the basic framework used in recent empirical cross-country growth research. Even though this literature was mainly … inspired by endogenous growth theories, the neoclassical growth model, especially its augmented version by Mankiw, Romer and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009157481
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Cross-country growth empirics and model uncertainty : an overview
Ulaşan, Bülent - 2011
The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of empirical cross-country growth literature. The paper begins with … describing the basic framework used in recent empirical cross-country growth research. Even though this literature was mainly … inspired by endogenous growth theories, the neoclassical growth model is still the workhorse for cross-country growth empirics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009295521
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Life expectancy, schooling, and lifetime labor supply : theory and evidence revisited
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2013
This paper presents a theoretical and empirical analysis of the role of life expectancy for optimal schooling and lifetime labor supply. The results of a simple prototype Ben-Porath model with age-specific survival rates show that an increase in lifetime labor supply is not a necessary, nor a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721323
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Family reunification or point-based immigration system? : the case of the United States and Mexico
López Real, Joel - 2011
While the immigration policy in the United States is mainly oriented to family reunification, in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. it is a points-based immigration system which main objective is to attract high skilled immigrants. This paper compares both immigration policies through the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009233421