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Frontiers of Climate Change Economics

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  • Gerard Meijden

    (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
    Tinbergen Institute)

  • Frederick Ploeg

    (Tinbergen Institute
    University of Oxford
    St. Petersburg State University
    CEPR)

  • Cees Withagen

    (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
    IPAG Business School Paris
    CESifo)

Abstract

The economics of climate change is an active field of research. The contributions to a Special Issue are put in context of the literature, and it is suggested that second-best issues such as carbon leakage and the Green Paradox need to be complemented with a political economy analysis of why certain instruments are politically infeasible and with intra- and intergenerational analyses of the impact of climate policy. A case is also made for more empirical work on the gradual and catastrophic damages of global warming.

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  • Gerard Meijden & Frederick Ploeg & Cees Withagen, 2017. "Frontiers of Climate Change Economics," Environmental & Resource Economics, Springer;European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, vol. 68(1), pages 1-14, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:enreec:v:68:y:2017:i:1:d:10.1007_s10640-017-0171-2
    DOI: 10.1007/s10640-017-0171-2
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    Climate change; Green paradox; Carbon leakage; Political economy; Distribution; Tipping points; Climate damage estimates;
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    • Q51 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Valuation of Environmental Effects
    • Q52 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Pollution Control Adoption and Costs; Distributional Effects; Employment Effects
    • Q54 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Climate; Natural Disasters and their Management; Global Warming
    • Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy

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