Publications

Vulnerability of microfinance institutions to climate risk in the Satkhira District, Southwest Bangladesh

Working paper by Adrian Fenton, Anne Tallontire, Jouni Paavola on 30 Mar 2017

This paper explores how microfinance institutions are affected by and are responding to flooding, by examining a case study of Satkhira District in Southwest Bangladesh. The authors develop a framework for understanding how microfinance institutions can reduce their vulnerability to climate risks and use the framework to empirically assess local-level practices, drawing from interviews with […]

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International carbon markets, linking and post-Brexit UK options

Presentations and data by Luca Taschini on 30 Mar 2017

Presentation given at ‘The impact of Brexit on the UK and European energy markets’ conference organised by Florence School of Regulation, European University Institute on 30 March 2017.

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Assessing surface water flood risk and management strategies under future climate change: insights from an agent-based model

Research article by Swenja Surminski, Florence Crick on 28 Mar 2017

Jenkins, K., Surminski, S., Hall, J. and Crick, F. (2017) Assessing surface water flood risk and management strategies under future climate change: insights from an agent-based model. Science of the … read more »

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Do energy efficiency standards hurt consumers? Evidence from household appliance sales

Working paper by Arlan Brucal, Michael Roberts on 23 Mar 2017

How do energy efficiency standards affect consumer welfare? To answer this question the authors look at how these standards have affected the price and quality of major appliances – including … read more »

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Cars, carbon taxes and CO2 emissions

Working paper by Julius Andersson on 21 Mar 2017

Is a carbon tax effective in reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, and thereby mitigating climate change? This paper is one of the first empirical analyses of this question and the … read more »

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Researching climate change and community in neoliberal contexts: an emerging critical approach

Research article by Susannah Mary Sallu, Lucie Middlemiss on 18 Mar 2017

In a 2011 contribution to this journal, Walker examined the ways that community is routinely employed in carbon governance, suggesting the need for more critical approaches. Here, we characterize an emerging, critical approach to researching climate change and community in neoliberal contexts, focusing attention principally on the global north, where this body of research has […]

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Long-term scenarios: Energy pathways in the UK

Research article by Alessandro Tavoni on 6 Mar 2017

The bottom-up approach promoted through the Paris Agreement and signed in 2016 requires the definition of accurate and realistic national pathways to cut emissions. A recent study applied to … read more »

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Methods for strengthening a weak instrument in the case of a persistent treatment

Working paper by Michel Berthélemy, Petyo Bonev, Damien Dussaux, Magnus Söderberg on 28 Feb 2017

When evaluating policy treatments that are persistent and endogenous, available instrumental variables often exhibit more variation over time than the treatment variable. This leads to a weak instrumental variable problem, … read more »

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International patent families: from application strategies to statistical indicators

Working paper by Antoine Dechezleprêtre, Yann Ménière, Myra Mohnen on 28 Feb 2017

This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the characteristics of international patent families, including their domestic component. The authors exploit a relatively under-studied feature of patent families, namely the number … read more »

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The use of evidence by the Cabinet Office: submitted to the ‘My Science Inquiry’ by the House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology

Policy publication by Bob Ward on 28 Feb 2017

These are the annotated notes to accompany an oral presentation on 1 February 2017 to the House of Commons Select Committee on Science and Technology.

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