Working papers from 2011
These working papers are ordered by date of most recent publication.
December
Working Paper 80
Also known as Munich Re Technical Paper 13
Pattern scaled climate change scenarios: are these useful for adaptation?| (PDF, 699KB)
Ana Lopez, Leonard A. Smith and Emma Suckling
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Working Paper 79
Public pressure versus lobbying – how do Environmental NGOs matter most in climate negotiations?| (PDF, 471KB)
Katharina Rietig
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Working Paper 78
Unawareness with 'possible' possible worlds| (PDF, 345KB)
Oliver Walker
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November
Working Paper 77
Government discounting controversies: the valuation of social time preference| (PDF, 431KB)
Michael Spackman
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Working Paper 76
Government discounting controversies: changing prices, opportunity costs and systematic risk| (PDF, 318KB)
Michael Spackman
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Working Paper 75
Asymmetry, optimal transfers and international environmental agreements| (PDF, 1.31MB)
Jonathan Colmer
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Working Paper 74
Coordination under threshold uncertainty in a public goods game| (PDF, 577KB)
Astrid Dannenberg, Andreas Löschel, Gabriele Paolacci, Christiane Reif and Alessandro Tavoni
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Working Paper 73
African farmers' perceptions of erratic rainfall| (PDF, 1.69MB)
Elisabeth Simelton, Claire H. Quinn, Philip Antwi-Agyei, Nnyaladzi Batisani, Andrew J. Dougill, Jen Dyer, Evan D.G. Fraser, David Mkwambisi, Staffan Rosell, Susannah Sallu and Lindsay C. Stringer
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September
Working Paper 72
Also known as Munich Re Technical Paper 12
A preliminary assessment of the impact of climate change on non-life insurance demand in the BRICS economies (PDF, 379KB)|
Nicola Ranger and Swenja Surminski
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Working Paper 71
What role for 'long-term' insurance in adaptation? An analysis of the prospects for and pricing of multi-year insurance contracts| (PDF, 465KB)
Trevor Maynard and Nicola Ranger
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Working Paper 70
Also known as Munich Re Technical Paper 11
Forecasting non-life insurance demand in the BRICS economies: a preliminary evaluation of the impacts of income and climate change |(PDF, 398KB)
Nicola Ranger and Andrew Williamson Read the abstract|
Working Paper 69
Adaptation to climate change and economic growth in developing countries (PDF, 1.25MB) |
Antony Millner and Simon Dietz
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Working Paper 68
Also known as Munich Re Technical Paper 10
A representation result for choice under conscious unawareness| (PDF, 882KB)
Olliver Walker and Simon Dietz
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Working Paper 67
The influence of academics as insider-nongovernmental actors in the Post-Kyoto Protocol Climate Change Negotiations: a matter of timing, network and policy-entrepreneurial capabilities (PDF, 4.18KB)|
Katharina Rietig
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August
Working Paper 66
Market-based instruments and technology choices: a synthesis (PDF, 2.53MB)|
Raphael Calel
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Working Paper 65
Also known as Munich Re Technical Paper 9
Scientific uncertainty: a user's guide (PDF, 3.38MB)|
Seamus Bradley
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July
Working Paper 64
The treatment of risk and uncertainty in the US Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis (PDF, 332KB)|
Simon Dietz
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Working Paper 63
Perverse incentives under the CDM: a comment (PDF, 757KB)
|Raphael Calel
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Working Paper 62
Climate change and carbon markets: a panoramic history (PDF, 669KB)
|Raphael Calel
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Working Paper 61
Deep uncertainty in long-term hurricane risk: scenario generation and implications for future climate experiments (PDF, 556KB)
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Nicola Ranger and Falk Niehörster
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Working Paper 60
Insuring climate catastrophes in Florida: an analysis of insurance pricing and capacity under various scenarios of climate change and adaptation measures (PDF, 786KB) |
Howard Kunreuther, Erwann Michel-Kerjan and Nicola Ranger
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June
Working Paper 59
Carbon trading: unethical, unjust and ineffective? (PDF, 486KB)|
Simon Caney and Cameron Hepburn
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May
Working Paper 58
Emerging markets and climate change: Mexican standoff or low-carbon race? (PDF, 489KB)
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David J. Frame and Cameron J. Hepburn
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Working Paper 57
Pollution permits, strategic trading and dynamic technology adoption (PDF, 451KB)|
Santiago Moreno-Bromberg and Luca Taschini
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April
Working Paper 56
Does foreign environmental policy influence domestic innovation? Evidence from the wind industry (PDF, 646KB) |
Antoine Dechezleprêtre and Matthieu Glachant
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March
Working Paper 55
Mapping the vulnerability of crop production to drought in Ghana using rainfall, yield and socioeconomic data (PDF, 1.16MB) |
Philip Antwi-Agyei, Evan D.G. Fraser, Andrew J.Dougill, Lindsay C. Stringer and Elisabeth Simelton
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Working Paper 54
The role of stocks and shocks concepts in the debate over price vs. quantity (PDF, 1.30MB)|
John E. Parsons and Luca Taschini
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Working Paper 53
Climate change: the ultimate 'tragedy of the commons'? (PDF, 309KB)|
Jouni Paavola
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Working Paper 52
Climate policy under sustainable discounted utilitarianism (PDF, 830KB)|
Simon Dietz and Geir B. Asheim
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Working Paper 51
Experimental comparison between markets on dynamic permit trading and investment in irreversible abatement with and without nonregulated companies| (PDF 646KB)
Marc Chesney, Luca Taschini and Mei Wang
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Working Paper 50
Also known as Munich Re Technical Paper 7
Integrated EUA and CER price modelling and application for spread option pricing (PDF, 759KB)|
Pauline Barrieu and Max Fehr
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February
Working Paper 49
Co-impacts of energy-related climate change mitigation in Africa's least developed countries: the evidence base and research needs (PDF, 371KB)|
Ian H. Rowlands
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Working Paper 48
Combining multiple climate policy instruments: how not to do it| (PDF, 598KB)
Samuel Fankhauser, Cameron Hepburn and Jisung Park
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January
Working Paper 47
Spending adaptation money wisely (PDF, 362KB)|
Samuel Fankhauser and Ian Burton
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Working Paper 46
Raising finance to support developing country action: some economic considerations (PDF, 332KB)
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Alex Bowen
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Working Paper 45
The survival of the conformist: social pressure and renewable resource management| (PDF, 1.39MB)
Alessandro Tavoni, Maja Schlüter and Simon Levin
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Working Paper 44
Inequality, communication and the avoidance of disastrous climate change (PDF, 1.49MB)|
Alessandro Tavoni, Astrid Dannenberg, Giorgos Kallis and Andreas Löschel
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