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Harstad, Bard - Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics and … - 2010

I develop a dynamic model of costly private provision of public goods where agents can also invest in cost-reducing technologies. Despite the n+1 stocks in the model, the analysis is tractable and the (Markov perfect) equilibrium unique. The frame-work is used to derive optimal incomplete...

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Ressource non renouvelable polluante : décentralisation de l'optimum en présence d'un pouvoir de marché

Belgodere, Antoine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

In this paper, I study the strategic interactions between a country that owns a monopoly on a polluting non renewable resource (basically, the OPEC), and a representative of countries that both consume the resource and are hurt by its pollution. Both pollution control and rent captation are at...

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Beyond Copenhagen: A Realistic Climate Policy in a Fragmented World

Carraro, Carlo; Massetti, Emanuele - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

) emissions. We assess by how much the non-binding, although official, commitments to reduce emissions made in Copenhagen will … affect the level of world GHGs emissions in 2020. Our estimates are based on official communications to the UNFCCC, on … expected level of emissions and what would be needed to achieve the 2°C target. Nor do we attempt to calculate the 2100 …

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Climate Change Adaptation, Development, and International Financial Support: Lessons from EU Pre-Accession and Solidarity Funds

Przyluski, Valentin; Hallegatte, Stéphane - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

funding examples provide a pertinent analogy for the adaptation problem, and most issues in adaptation finance have also been … finance. These insights can be summarized into seven main lessons: (1) “black-spot” programs are less flexible but more …

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Uncertainty in Integrated Assessment Models of Climate Change: Alternative Analytical Approaches

Golub, Alexander; Narita, Daiju - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

Uncertainty plays a key role in the economics of climate change, and the discussions surrounding its implications for climate policy are far from settled. We give an overview of the literature on uncertainty in integrated assessment models of climate change and identify some future research...

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Hot Stuff: Would Climate Change Alter Transboundary Water Sharing Treaties?

Ambec, Stefan; Dinar, Ariel - Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse … - 2010

By signing an international river sharing agreement (RSA), countries voluntary commit to release water in exchange for a compensation. We examine the robustness of such commitments to reduced water flows. We focus on RSAs that satisfy core lower bounds and fairness upper bounds. We characterize...

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Estimating the Social Cost of Non-CO2 GHG Emissions: Methane and Nitrous Oxide

Marten, Alex L.; Newbold, Stephen C. - National Center for Environmental Economics (NCEE), … - 2011

Many estimates of the social cost of CO2 emissions (SCCO2) can be found in the climate economics literature. However … of CH4 and N2O emissions to those that would be produced by using the SCCO2 to value the "CO2-equivalents" of each of … non-CO2 greenhouse gas emission reductions using GWPs and the SCCO2 for single- and multi-gas abatement policies. In both …

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THE IMPACT OF THE CAP-AND-TRADE SYSTEM ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN ROMANIA

Bologa (Fiat) Gabriela; Balint (Platon) Judit - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2010) 2, pp. 69-75

The issue of pollution is an important contemporary issue. Within the last 20 years, there have been global studies on how to stop global warming. The European Union is the world leader in concrete measures undertaken in this respect. The introduction of the cap-and-trade system, begun in 2005...

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Power and domination in development policies (In French)

BERR, Eric - Groupe de Recherche en Économie Théorique et … - 2011

show the real aim of neo-liberal policies implemented since the beginning of the 1980s. …

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Public Investment as Commitment

Gerlagh, Reyer; Liski, Matti - CESifo - 2011

Should public assets such as infrastructure, education, and the environment earn the same return as private investments? We consider if time-inconsistent decision-makers can gain from institutions that enforce cost-benefit rules on large projects that influence the economy as a whole. Long-term...

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