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Effectiveness of climate policies : empirical methods and evidence
Dieler, Julian - 2016
-observations. Chapter 3 introduces a new climate policy indicator which provides information about the stringency of climate policies in the …
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Financial incentives for low carbon investment
Schopp, Anne - 2014
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The impact of a carbon pricing policy on the competitiveness of South African firms
Singh, Nishani - 2012
South Africa is a high carbon emitting nation with fossil fuels accounting for more than 90% of the country?s primary energy needs. As a rapidly developing country there is increasing pressure from international partners for the country to demonstrate its commitment to climate change...
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Anreize und Privatheit bei modernen Monitoring Technologien: das Beispiel der Kfz-Versicherungsvertr?ge
Filipova-Neumann, Lilia - 2008
to collect, process, and share information about their own status and about their environment, has attained a high degree … information asymmetries concerning individual risk this has positive efficiency effects. Simultaneously with the improvement of … gain relevance. The comprehensiveness of collected pieces of information which can be stored arbitrarily long and …
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Trade, climate policy and carbon leakage : theory and empirical evidence
Aichele, Rahel - 2013
This volume was prepared by Rahel Aichele while she was working at the ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. The chapters investigate how, in a...
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Designing international climate agreements : an economic analysis of free-riding incentives
Kornek, Ulrike - 2015
International environmental agreements have been and are negotiated to facilitate mitigation efforts on climate change. To avoid severe impacts, global cooperation is required as the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions represents a global public good. However, free-riding incentives impede the...
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Trade and climate policies : the role of market structure, strategic behaviour, and the supply side of carbon
Richter, Philipp M. - 2015
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time. It is a global problem that has to be understood in the context of a globalising world with an increasing amount of goods being traded. This dissertation focuses on the interrelation between international trade and climate policies....
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Assessing adaptation to climate change and its costs in a carbon-constrained world
Costa, Luís Fílípe Carvalho da - 2013
This thesis aims at improving the current representation of adaptation in economic frameworks of climate change by a) accounting for the time-dependent evolution of the adaptive capacities of countries and b) quantifying unwelcome feedbacks of the adaptation process. In this context, it is...
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Essays on consumer choices relevant to climate change : stated preference evidence from Germany
Achtnicht, Martin - 2013
One of the major challenges that our world faces today and in the future is human-induced climate change. The primary cause of global warming, leading to climate change, is the burning of fossil fuels for energy and transport, which increases the concentration of greenhouse gases in the...
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Climate change, risk and productivity : analyses of Chinese agriculture
Holst, Rainer - 2013
This thesis analyzes challenges to agricultural production in China, which could impair the country's ability to maintain or to increase its output of important food commodities. By means of three empirical studies, issues regarding the effects of climate change and the development of total...
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