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The Role of Regions in Climate Change Policy
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2009-10-13)
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing human kind. Urgent policy action is needed. Climate change policies are mainly being discussed at international level by means of the United Nations Conventions and ...
The Private Provision of International Impure Public Goods: the Case of Climate Policy
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-09-09)
We discuss a tax-transfer scheme that aims at addressing the under-provision problem associated with the private supply of international public goods and at bringing about Pareto optimal allocations internationally. In ...
Price Premium for High-Efficiency Refrigerators and Calculation of Price-Elasticities for Close-Substitutes: Combining Hedonic Pricing and Demand Systems
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-08-30)
This article uses the hedonic pricing method to estimate the price premium paid for the highest energy-efficiency label (A+) in the refrigerators market of the Basque Autonomous Community (Spain). The estimated figure is ...
The Equivalency Principle for Discounting the Value of Natural Assets: An Application to an Investment Project in the Basque Coast
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2011-10-10)
Making decisions about optimal investments in green infrastructure necessitates setting social discount rates. This paper suggests a practical way for determining the discount rate for projects or programmes in which one ...
The Costs of Drought: the Exceptional 2007-2008 Case of Barcelona
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2009-11-18)
The drought affecting Catalonia between 2007 and 2008 was the most severe of the last century and serves as a case study for the assessment of the economic costs of such an event. The main focus is the drought affecting ...
Climate Change and Its Socioeconomic Importance
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2009-10-21)
Climate change has played an increasingly key role in recent years and is now one of the leading political priorities worldwide. This article illustrates the scope of the problem, its causes and its impacts, along with the ...
Uncertain Information Structures and Backward Induction
(Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I, UPV/EHU, 2014-03-25)
In everyday economic interactions, it is not clear whether sequential choices are visible
or not to other participants: agents might be deluded about opponents'capacity to acquire,interpret or keep track of data, or might ...
The Health Effects of Climate Change: A Survey of Recent Quantitative Research
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-10-25)
In recent years there has been considerable scientific and public debate on climate change and its direct and indirect effects on human health. According to the World Health Organization (WHO, 2006), some 2.5 million people ...
Trends in Income and Price Elasticities of Transport Demand (1850-2010)
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2012-02-24)
The purpose of this paper is to estimate trends in income and price elasticities and to offer insights for the future growth in transport use, with particular emphasis on the impact of energy and technological transitions. ...
Weighting social preferences in participatory multi-criteria evaluations: a case study on sustainable natural resource management
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2012-08-23)
The use of multi-criteria evaluation tools in combination with participatory approaches provides a promising framework for integrating multiple interests and perspectives in the effort to provide sustainability. However, ...