Working Paper 18 Abstract Conventional cost-benefit analysis incorporates the normally reasonable assumption that the policy or project under examination is... Read more
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Ward, R.E.T. 2010. In: Economic Analysis and Policy, v.40, p.125-143. Read more
Our paper uses the EPO/OECD World Patent Statistical Database(PATSTAT) to provide a quantitative description of the geographic distribution of inventions in thirteen climate mitigation technologies since 1978 and their international diffusion on a global scale. Read more
Working Paper 16 Abstract We consider how environmental policies should respond to macroeconomic downturns. We first explore the implications of... Read more
Abstract ‘It will be as different as night from day’, is how Senator John Kerry described the impact of Barack... Read more
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Abstract A levy on the Clean Development Mechanism and other carbon trading schemes is a potential source of finance for... Read more
Abstract Climate change is increasingly seen to raise difficult normative issues. To date, cumulative emissions have been disproportionately from the... Read more
Working Paper 15 Abstract At present the USA is, in per capita terms, the top greenhouse gas polluter among the... Read more
Using patent data from 66 countries for the 1990–2003 period, we characterise the factors that promote or hinder the international diffusion of climate-friendly technologies on a global scale Read more