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Subglobal climate agreements and trade in energy intensive commodities
(2011)MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research Working Paper 2011-003 (CEEPR WP 2011-003)Subglobal climate policies induce changes in international competitiveness and favor a relocation of carbon-emitting activities. We argue that many energy-intensive activities are also capital-intensive, so that carbon policies could affect rents rather than abatement or location. Taking copper as an example, we formulate a plant-level spatial equilibrium model of the industry, and we estimate a set of elasticities to calibrate the ...Working Paper -
Can a growing world be fed when the climate is changing?
(2019)IRENE Working PapersWorking Paper -
Asymmetric information on the market for energy efficiency: Insights from the credence goods literature
(2019)IRENE Working PapersWorking Paper -
Social comparison and energy conservation in a collective action context: A field experiment
(2019)IRENE Working PapersWorking Paper -
Rainfall shocks, per capita income and rural out-migration
(2021)IRENE Working PapersRural regions are more exposed to rainfall shocks, notably through agriculture, and understanding how local population adapt to changes in the climate is an important policy challenge. In this paper we exploit longitudinal data for Turkish provinces from 2008 to 2018 together with precipitation records over more than 30 years to study how shocks to 12-month standard precipitation index (SPI) affect out-migration across rural, transitional ...Working Paper -
Minumum wage regulation in Switzerland: Evidence from a direct-demogracy experminent
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Running with the Red Queen: An integrated assessment of Agricultural Land Expansion and Global Biodiversity Decline
(2014)CIES Research PaperWorking Paper -
Clean substitutes and the effectiveness of Carbon Footprint Labels vs. Pigovian Subsidies: Evidence from a Field Experiment
(2014)CIES Research PaperWe study how substitutability between clean and dirty alternatives affects the effectiveness of environmental regulation in a field experiment that controls for the choice set of respondents. We consider four product categories with clean and dirty alternatives: (i) cola products in plastic bottles vs. in aluminum cans; (ii) skimmed vs. whole milk; (iii) chicken meat vs. beef meat; and (iv) margarine vs. butter. We employ two neutrally ...Working Paper -
Global Population Growth, Technology and Malthusian Constraints: A Quantitative Growth Theoretic Perspective
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