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Climate, urbanization, and conflict : the effects of weather shocks and floods on urban social disorder
Castells-Quintana, David; McDermott, Thomas K. J. - 2019
In this paper, we test the effect of weather shocks and floods on urban social disorder for a panel of large cities in developing countries. We focus on a particular mechanism, namely the displacement of population into (large) cities. We test this hypothesis using a novel dataset on...
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To leave or not to leave? : climate change, exit, and voice on a Pacific Island
Noy, Ilan - 2016
Observers repeatedly predict that climate change will lead and is already causing massive migration with very large … the contemporary link between climate change and migration fails to find much evidence of this migration. As climate …-in-the-Mine for climate change research. If migration driven by climate change is not happening today, Tuvalu may explain why. One …
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Climate, urbanization, and conflict: The effects of weather shocks and floods on urban social disorder
Castells-Quintana, David; McDermott, Thomas K. J. - 2019
In this paper, we test the effect of weather shocks and floods on urban social disorder for a panel of large cities in developing countries. We focus on a particular mechanism, namely the displacement of population into (large) cities. We test this hypothesis using a novel dataset on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064752
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Prices versus quantities reassessed
Karp, Larry S.; Traeger, Christian - 2018
"Prices versus quantities" (Weitzman 1974), a hugely influential paper, is widely cited (and taught) in current debates about the best policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The paper's criterion for ranking policies suggests that technological uncertainty favors taxes over cap and trade....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011927948
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Effects of carbon pricing and other climate policies on CO2 emissions
Kohlscheen, Emanuel; Moessner, Richhild; Takáts, Előd - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012643539
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Pricing climate risk
Jensen, Svenn; Traeger, Christian - 2021
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...
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Optimal climate policy with fat-tailed uncertainty : what the models can tell us
De Bruin, Kelly C.; Krishnamurthy, Chandra Kiran - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510301
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Smart cap
Karp, Larry S.; Traeger, Christian - 2021
We introduce a "smart" cap and trade system that eliminates the welfare costs of asymmetric information (“uncertainty”). This cap responds endogenously to technology or macroeconomic shocks, relying on the market price of certificates to aggregate information. It allows policy makers to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012438358
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Effects of green technology support policies on carbon dioxide emissions
Moessner, Richhild - 2024
This paper provides ex-post empirical evidence on the effects of green technology support policies, in comparison with other climate policies, on carbon dioxide emissions at the aggregate national level. The paper uses cross-country dynamic panel estimation for a sample of 38 countries over the...
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The Macroeconomics evaluation of Climate Change Model (MECC-Model): The case Study of China
Estrada, Ruiz; Arturo, Mario - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Global climate change has a potentially large impact on economic growth but measuring their economic impact is subject to a great deal of uncertainty. The central objective of our paper is to set forth a model – the macroeconomics evaluation of climate change (MECC) model – to evaluate the...
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