Working papers
These working papers are intended to stimulate discussion within the research community and among users of research, and their content may have been submitted for publication in academic journals. They have been reviewed by at least one internal referee before publication.
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2010|
2009|
2010
August
A coevolutionary framework for analysing a transition to a sustainable low carbon economy
Timothy J. Foxon
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Noodles at any cost: food self-sufficiency and natural hazards in China
Elisabeth Simelton
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Climate change and the socioeconomics of global food production: a quantitative analysis of how socioeconomic factors influence the vulnerability of grain crops to drought
Elisabeth Simelton, Evan D.G. Fraser, Mette Termansen, Tim G. Benton, Simon N. Gosling, Andrew South, Nigel W. Arnell, Andrew J. Challinor, Andrew J. Dougill and Piers M. Forster
Ambiguity and climate policy
Antony Millner, Simon Dietz and Geoffrey Heal
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Probabilistic regional and seasonal predictions of twenty-first century temperature and precipitation
David Stainforth
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Ecological modernisation and the governance of carbon: a critical analysis
Ian Bailey, Andrew Gouldson and Peter Newell
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July
International climate policy after Copenhagen: towards a 'building blocks' approach
Robert Falkner, Hannes Stephan and John Vogler
June
Assessing vulnerability to climate change in dryland livelihood systems: conceptual challenges and interdisciplinary solutions
Evan D.G. Fraser, Mette Termansen, Klaus Hubacek, Andrew J. Dougill, Jan Sendzimir and Claire Quinn
May
Europe in a climate of risk: three paradigms at play
Veerle Hayvaert
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Does adaptation to climate change provide food security? A micro-perspective from Ethiopia
Salvatore Di Falco, Marcella Veronesi and Mahmud Yesuf
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March
Public-private partnerships for storm risk management in the Cayman Islands
Emma L. Tompkins and Lisa-Ann Hurlston
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On non-marginal cost-benefit analysis
Simon Dietz and Cameron Hepburn
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February
Invention and transfer of climate change mitigation technologies on a global scale: a study drawing on patent data
Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Matthieu Glachant, Ivan Hascic, Nick Johnstone and Yann Ménière
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January
Environmental policy and the economic downturn
Alex Bowen and Nicholas Stern
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Why is the USA so energy intensive? Evidence from US multinationals in the UK
Ralf Martin
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2009
December
What drives the international transfer of climate change mitigation technologies? Empirical evidence from patent data
Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Matthieu Glachant and Yann Ménière
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From efficiency to justice: utility as the informational basis of climate change strategies, and some alternatives
Simon Dietz
November
Properly designed emissions trading schemes do work!
Rene Carmona, Max Fehr and Juri Hinz
The carbon market in 2020: volumes, prices and gains from trade
Marcel Brinkman, Samuel Fankhauser, Ben Irons and Stephan Weyers
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Environmental prices, uncertainty and learning
Simon Dietz and Samuel Fankhauser, November 2009
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Climate change mitigation policy: an overview of opportunities and challenges
Timothy J. Foxon
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September
High impact, low probability? An empirical analysis of risk in the economics of climate change
Simon Dietz
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Working Paper 9|
How do domestic attributes affect international spillovers of CO2-efficiency?
Richard Perkins and Eric Neumayer
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The costs of adaptation
Samuel Fankhauser
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August
The impacts of the Climate Change Levy on business: evidence from microdata
Ralf Martin, Laure B. de Preux and Ulrich J. Wagner
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July
Strategic appraisal of environmental risks: a contrast between the UK's Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change and its Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
Simon Dietz and Alec Morton
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Working Paper 5 (Munich Re Technical Paper 1) |
Economic policy when models disagree
Pauline Barrieu and Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné
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Working Paper 4|
Carbon markets in space and time
Sam Fankhauser and Cameron Hepburn
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June
The Clean Development Mechanism: too flexible to produce sustainable development benefits?
Charlene Watson and Samuel Fankhauser
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May
The economics of the CDM levy: revenue potential, tax incidence and distortionary effects
Samuel Fankhauser, Nat Martin and Stephen Prichard
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March
Economic crises, land use vulnerabilities, climate variability, food security and population declines: will history repeat itself or will our society adapt to climate change?
Evan D. G. Fraser
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