Working paper by Joshua Graff Zivin, Matthew Neidell, Nicholas Sanders on 28 Jun 2021
Influenza, or flu, and air pollution are significant public health risks that impact nations around the world with large economic consequences.
Working paper by Eugenie Dugoua on 14 Jun 2021
This paper provides evidence that the Montreal Protocol’s restrictions on CFCs triggered a substantial increase in research and innovation on alternatives to ozone-depleting molecules and suggests such international environmental agreements can dynamically improve the benefit-cost equation of environmental protection and may therefore also be useful to dealing with current problems such as climate change.
Policy publication by Pia Andres on 11 Jun 2021
This report uses a new data-driven online tool, the Green Transition Navigator, to analyse the green competitiveness of the seven individual G7 member states and invited countries.
Research article by Daire McCoy on 8 Jun 2021
The distributional impact of the low-carbon transition is an increasingly important topic both for academics and policymakers. Quantifying where the…
Working paper by Elisabeth Isaksen, Bjørn Johansen on 7 Jun 2021
This paper shows that differentiating driving costs by time of day and vehicle type can help to improve urban air quality, reduce driving and induce the adoption of electric vehicles.
Working paper by Stefano Carattini, Sam Fankhauser, Jianjian Gao, Caterina Gennaioli, Pietro Panzarasa on 2 Jun 2021
This paper applies the tools of network analysis to understand the global network of international cooperation created by the system of international environmental agreements, which number more than 2,000.
Working paper by Simon Dikau, Ulrich Volz on 14 May 2021
Investigating the use of the green monetary policy tool ‘window guidance’ in China, the authors draw lessons for the design of green finance policies for other countries that seek to enhance sustainable finance and mitigate climate change and related risks.
Working paper by Michael Spackman on 28 Apr 2021
This paper assembles a picture of the evolving research on and understanding of the equity premium and the issues it covers reinforce other arguments for discounting over time at a social time preference rate in climate change analysis.
Working paper by Michael Spackman on 28 Apr 2021
This paper is a contribution to the understanding and development of social discounting regimes. It addresses three implications of how public funding differs from private financing by debt and equity, then examines US Federal and United Kingdom central government conventions, and also illustrates the difficulties of establishing and maintaining analytically rigorous social discounting procedures in practice.
Working paper by Moritz Baer, Emanuele Campiglio, Jérôme Deyris on 22 Apr 2021
This paper studies how institutional dynamics might affect the implementation of climate-related financial policies and discusses the scenarios that might originate from the current institutional setting.
