This study combines three rounds of surveys with remote sensing to measure long-term impacts of a randomized irrigation program in the Dominican Republic. Specifically, Landsat 7 and Landsat 8 satellite images are used to measure the causal effects of the program on agricultural productivity,...

Der Verkehrssektor hinkt seit 30 Jahren im Klimaschutz hinterher. Gesellschaft, Industrie und Politik stehen vor entsprechend großen Herausforderungen, um die Klimaschutzziele der nächsten Jahre zu erreichen. Eine Antriebs- sowie Mobilitätswende ist hierfür erforderlich. Ein...

The COVID-19 pandemic crisis has generated a serious economic and social crisis in the European Union. This in return produced a vigorous EU reply that took among other the shape of a strong financial response trough the provisional instrument of the NextGenerationEU financial instrument. One of...

We present a modification of the most commonly used integrated assessment model (IAM) of climate change (DICE-2016), AD-DICE2016, which is designed to address three key aspects of climateeconomy models: treatment of uncertainty, the use of more appropriate utility functions, and including...

The dimensioning and behavior of environmental expenditures made by a country are required information to assess the relevance that the theme occupies in public and private agendas, because they allow for the understanding of priorities and commitments in the pursuit of sustainable development....

Anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are changing the energy balance of our planet. Various climatic feedbacks make the resulting warming over the next decades and centuries highly uncertain. We quantify how this uncertainty changes the optimal carbon tax in a stochastic dynamic programming...

This paper explores the effect of natural resource dependence on market concentration of imports. Using a new panel database for importing firms in developing and emerging market economies, the paper shows that higher natural resource dependence is associated with larger market concentration of...

We provide ex-post empirical analysis of the effects of climate policies on carbon dioxide emissions at the aggregate national level. Our results are based on a comprehensive database of 121 countries. As climate policies we examine carbon taxes and emissions trading systems (ETS), as well as...

In this paper we try to contribute to the understanding of the persistence and increase of meat eating in the face of mounting evidence on the ills of meat production and consumption by considering the role of selective attention and learning. We aim to test whether agent type plays a role in...

Understanding households' resilience strategies under uncertainties is important in several domains including social protection, adaptation to climate change, minimizing disaster-related risks, and humanitarian aid. At the same time, food security is an important problem for developing...