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reduce the externality, because individuals care more about the environment if their income is higher or if pollution is more …
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Reichen die auf dem G-20-Gipfel beschlossenen Maßnahmen aus, die Finanzmärkte zu regulieren und die Wahrscheinlichkeit zukünftiger Krisen zu senken? Für Rolf J. Langhammer, Institut für Weltwirtschaft, Kiel, dienten die Beschlüsse des G-20-Gipfels der Krisenüberwindung und dem Versuch,...
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there is uncertainty about the marginal costs of the newly merged firms. The authors consider that the merging firms decide … always have incentives to merge, irrespective of cost uncertainty, while a merger without role redistribution is ex ante … profitable if and only if uncertainty is sufficiently great. As regards the social desirability of mergers, it is found that a …
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The paper proposes a novel way to handle the relation between decision theory and uncertainty in the context of policy …
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market set-up that accounts for fundamental uncertainty. Nonetheless, the market is designed so that its total value is known …
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Arguments about the appropriate discount rate often start by assuming a Utilitarian social welfare function with isoelastic utility, in which the consumption discount rate is a function of the (constant) elasticity of marginal utility along with the (much discussed) utility discount rate. In...
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discounting, it mis-estimated climate risk, possibly hugely. Given the uncertainty about estimating the SCC, the note concludes by …This note considers the treatment of risk and uncertainty in the recently established social cost of carbon (SCC) for …
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Der mehr als 100 Jahre währende Trend sinkender Preise für Agrarrohstoffe ist zu Ende gegangen. Seit der Jahrtausendwende steigen die Agrarpreise, weil die Nachfrage weltweit stärker steigt als das Angebot. Die veränderte Weltmarktentwicklung führt zu einer Zunahme des Hungers in der Welt...
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This paper tests the effect of gross domestic product (GDP) per capita on pollution, measured by carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions per capita. World Bank 1992 study claims that pollution rises with income, but at a slower and slower speed and eventually declines. Using Ordinary Least Squares...
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Emissions trading and the promotion of the use of energy from renewable sources are key elements of German and European energy and climate policy. However, some critics oppose a targeted promotion of renewable energy, arguing in particular that this is ineffective or even damaging in conjunction...
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