Publications
Energy services
Fouquet, Roger (2016). In: Durlauf, Steven N. and Blume, Lawrence E., (eds.) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan.
The climate beta
This paper examines the question of whether fighting climate change has the additional advantage of reducing the aggregate risk borne by future generations. This raises the question of the ‘climate beta’, i.e. the elasticity of climate damages with respect to a change in aggregate consumption. read more »
Emission intensity and firm dynamics: reallocation, product mix, and technology in India
This study looks at how market conditions shape aggregate carbon dioxide emission intensity from manufacturing. read more »
Understanding the demand for REDD+ credits
Laing, Timothy, Taschini, Luca and Palmer, Charles (2016). In: Environmental Conservation
Energy efficiency gains from trade in intermediate inputs: firm-level evidence from Indonesia
This paper investigates whether importing intermediate goods improves firm-level environmental performance in a developing country, using data from the Indonesian manufacturing sector. read more »
Green taxes in a post-Paris world: are millions of nays inevitable?
This paper addresses the question of the acceptability of cost-effective climate policy in a real-voting setting – the 2015 ballot on energy taxes in Switzerland. read more »
The transnationalisation of law: rethinking law through transnational environmental regulation
This working paper argues that the rise of transnational regulation has a transformative impact on law. read more »
Forward-looking flood insurance? (Zukunftsorientierte Flutversicherung?)
Thoughts on the introduction of flood re in the United Kingdom. read more »
A new approach to an age-old problem: solving externalities by incenting workers directly
Understanding motivations in the workplace remains of utmost import as economies around the world rely on increases in labor productivity to foster sustainable economic growth. This study makes use … read more »
Strengthening insurance partnerships in the face of climate change – insights from an agent-based model of flood insurance in the UK
This paper investigates how partnerships can incentivise flood risk reduction by focusing on the UK public-private partnership on flood insurance. read more »
