Publications
Embodied carbon in trade: a survey of the empirical literature
This paper critically reviews the literature on embodied carbon in trade and evaluates our present empirical understanding of these flows. read more »
Tenure insecurity and investment in soil conservation. Evidence from Malawi
Tenure insecurity can have important consequences for the conservation of natural resources. Land titling is often considered a solution to the problem of weak investment incentives … read more »
Sectors under scrutiny – Evaluation of indicators to assess the risk of carbon leakage in the UK and Germany
One of the central debates surrounding the design of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme is the approach to addressing carbon leakage. Correctly identifying the economic activities … read more »
How national legislation can help to solve climate change
Reference Townshend, T., Fankhauser, S., Aybar, R., Collins, M., Landesman, T., Nachmany, M., and Pavese, C. April 2013. How national legislation can help to solve climate change. Nature Climate Change, v.3, pp.430-432.
Climate Change demands that we work co- operatively’: Fostering multiscalar collaboration and co-operation for effective governance of climate change adaptation and mitigation
Leck, H., and Simon, D. 2013. In Urban Studies, 50 (6).
Discounting under disagreement
NBER Working Paper. A group of agents disagree about the appropriate inter temporal preferences to use when exploiting a common productive resource. read more »
Predicting agricultural impacts of large-scale drought: 2012 and the case for better modeling
The 2012 growing season saw one of the worst droughts in a generation in much of the United States and cast a harsh light on the … read more »
Economy-wide impacts of REDD when there is political influence
National-level strategies for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation(REDD), financed by international transfers, have begun to emerge. A three-sector model is developed to explore the economy-wide … read more »
On welfare frameworks and catastrophic climate risks
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. Recent theoretical work in the economics of climate change has suggested that climate policy is highly sensitive to ‘fat-tailed’ risks of catastrophic outcomes (Weitzman, 2009). read more »
Declining discount rates and the Fisher Effect: inflated past, discounted future?
Uncertain, yet persistent, real rates of return to capital underpin one argument for using a declining schedule of social discount rates. Yet persistency is only present … read more »
