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Optimal Abandonment of Coal-Fired Stations in the EU
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-05-26)
Carbon-fired power plants could face some difficulties in a carbon-constrained world. The traditional advantage of coal as a cheaper fuel may decrease in the future if CO2 allowance prices start to increase. This paper ...
Competing Ecosystem Services: an Assessment of Carbon and Timber in the Tropical Forests of Central America
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-10-07)
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA 2005) has classified a number of ecosystems good and services (EGS) provided by tropical forests, namely cultural, provisioning, regulatory and support services. The primary focus ...
Energy Supply and the Sustainability of Endogenous Growth
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-07-13)
The paper provides an introduction to energy and, respective resource use within the framework of endogenous growth models. We provide an overview of different modeling approaches as well as intuition with respect to the ...
Local and Global Externalities, Environmental Policies and Growth
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-10-25)
The paper analyzes the implications of local and global pollution when two types of abatement activities can be undertaken. One type reduces solely local pollution (e.g., use of particulate matter filters) while the other ...
ICT Applications in the Research for Environmental Sustainability
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-11-08)
Whether Information and Communication Technology (ICT) constitutes a threat to or a cure for environmental deterioration is a matter of controversy. Empirical evidence on the impacts of ICT is rare, so few generalisable ...
Economic Assessment of Forest Ecosystem Services Losses: Cost of Policy Inaction
(Basque Centre for Climate Change/Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, 2010-09-13)
This paper presents a bottom-up methodological framework for estimating some of the key ecosystem services provided by forests biomes worldwide. We consider the provision of wood and non-wood forest products, recreation ...
Monotonic core solutions: Beyond Young's theorem
(2010-07)
We introduce two new monotonicity properties for core concepts: single-valued solution concepts that always select a core allocation whenever the game is balanced (has a nonempty core). We present one result of impossibility ...
The role of the terms of trade in the trade channel of transmission of oil price shocks
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2010-12)
This paper highlights the role of the terms of trade in the trade channel of propagation of oil price shocks both empirically and theoretically. Empirically, I show that oil price shocks have a large, persistent and ...
Endogenous fisheries management in a stochastic model: Why do fishery agencies use TAC
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2010-12)
The aim of this paper is to explain under which circumstances using TACs as instrument to manage a fishery along with fishing periods may be interesting from a regulatory point of view. In order to do this, the deterministic ...
Fiscal Policy and Economic Stability: Does PIGS stand for Procyclicality In Government Spending?
(University of the Basque Country, Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II, 2010-12)
The Financial Crisis has hit particularly hard countries like Ireland or Spain. Procyclical fiscal policy has contributed to a boom-bust cycle that undermined fiscal positions and deepened current account deficits during ...