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Weather derivatives have become very popular tools in weather risk management in recent years. One of the elements supporting their diffusion has been the increase in volatility observed on many energy markets. Among the several available contracts, Quanto options are now becoming very popular...
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The problem of the commons is more important to our lives and thus more central to economics than a century ago when Katharine Coman led off the first issue of the American Economic Review. As the U.S. and other economies have grown, the carrying-capacity of the planet - in regard to natural...
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than from their endowment. We show that in a symmetric world of poorly-endowed countries the equilibrium level of emissions … increased keeping the total number of countries constant, the equilibrium level of global emissions will decrease; if the lot of …
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Premiestňovanie a presídľovanie obyvateľstva na Zemi sa tiahne celou históriou ľudského rodu. V súčasnosti nastupuje fenomén migrácie z dôvodu neobývateľnosti pred tým vyhovujúcich území, v ktorých má proces degradácie na svedomí ľudská činnosť alebo čoraz...
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the world mean temperature exceeding 2 degrees Celsius. To achieve the two degree target, the cumulated global emissions …-effective policy of restricting emissions to the global carbon budget. In its simplest form, the cost-effective global policy is shown …-effective regulation may require the abating country to tax its first-period consumption and to tax or subsidize its emissions in the first …
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In 2005, the European Emission Trading Scheme (EU-ETS) established a new commodity: the right to emit a ton of CO2 (EUA). Since its launch, the corresponding price has shown rather turbulent dynamics, including nervous reactions to policy announcements and a price collapse after a visible...
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A recent paper by Burke et al. (henceforth "we") finds a strong historical relationship between warmer- than-average temperatures and the incidence of civil war in Africa (Burke et al. 2009). These findings have recently been challenged by Buhaug (2010) who finds fault with how we controlled for...
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Miguel, Satyanath and Sergenti (2004) use rainfall variation as an instrument to show that economic growth is negatively related to civil conflict in sub-Saharan Africa. In the reduced form regression they find that higher rainfall is associated with less conflict. Ciccone (2010) claims that...
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tighter climate policies. In this paper, we study the strategic interactions between international trade and climate policy … credible threat to force non-abating countries to implement stricter climate policies. We show that the terms of trade effects … demonstrate that WTO conform BCA increases the effectiveness of climate policy and forces trading partners to reduce emissions …
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This paper is intended to present some studies undertaken in order to develop a seismic vulnerability estimation system to fit the needs of development of earthquake scenarios and of development of an integrated disaster risk management system for Romania. Methodological aspects are dealt with,...
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