The Oxford Handbook of the Macroeconomics of Global Warming
Edited by Lucas Bernard and Willi Semmler
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
1. The Macroeconomics of Global Warming
Lucas Bernard and Willi Semmler
PART I: GROWTH AND CLIMATE CHANGE
2. Improving Climate Projections to Better Inform Climate Risk Management
Klaus Keller and Robert Nicholas
3. Energy Balance Climate Models, Damage Reservoirs and the Time Profile of Climate Change Policy
William Brock, Gustav Engström, and Anastasios Xepapadeas
4. Economics of Environmental Regime Shifts
Florian Wagener
5. Policy Scenarios in a Model of Optimal Economics Growth and Climate Change
Helmut Maurer, Johann Jakob Preuß, and Willi Semmler
6. Adaptive Model-Predictive Climate Policies in a Multi-Country Setting
Thierry Bréchet, Carmen Camacho, and Vladimir M. Veliov
PART II: MITIGATION POLICY MODELING
7. Prospects of Tools from Differential Games in the Study of Macroeconomics of Climate Change
Jacob Engwerda
8. Fairness in Climate Negotiations: A Meta-Game Analysis Based on Community Integrated Assessment
Alain Haurie, Frédéric Babonneau, Neil Edwards, Phil Holden, Amit Kanudia, Maryse Labriet, Barbara Pizzileo, and Marc Vielle
9. Climate Change and Second-Best Abatement in a Multi-Region World with Endogenous Growth
Alfred Greiner
10. Global Warming and R&D-Based Growth in a Trade Model between Environmentally Sensitive and Environmentally Neglectful Countries
Francisco Cabo, Guiomar Martín-Herrán, and María Pilar Martínez-García
11. Climate Change and Inter-Generational Wellbeing
Jeffrey D. Sachs
12. The Atmosphere as a Global Commons: Challenges for International Cooperation and Governance
Ottmar Edenhofer, Christian Flachsland, Michael Jakob, and Kai Lessmann
13. The Social Cost of Carbon
Richard S. J. Tol
PART III: TECHNOLOGY AND ENERGY POLICIES
14. Climate-Friendly Technological Change for Developing Countries
David Popp
15. Renewable Energy: Models, Implications, and Prospects
Franz Wirl and Yuri Yegorov
16. Emission Trading Systems and Technological Innovation: A Random Matching Model
Angelo Antoci, Simone Borghesi, and Mauro Sodini
17. The Reality of Nuclear Power: The Fukushima Experience and Its Impact
Kozo Mayumi and John M. Polimeni
PART IV: ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION
18. Forecast Based Pricing of Weather Derivatives
Wolfgang Karl Härdle, Brenda López Cabrera, Matthias Ritter
19. Employment and Output Effects of Climate Policies
Mika Kato, Stefan Mittnik, Daniel Samaan, and Willi Semmler
20. Macroeconomic Effects of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Policies with a Focus on Germany
Christian Lutz and Ulrike Lehr
PART V: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
21. The Stabilization of Earth's Climate in the 21st Century by the Stabilization of Per Capita Consumption
Askar Akaev
22. Does Kyoto Protocol Intensify Carbon Leakage to China?
Zhong Maochu and Shi Yadong
23. Climate Thresholds, Weather Extremes, and Catastrophic Losses
Lopamudra Banerjee
24. Climate Impacts on Agriculture: A Challenge to Complacency?
Frank Ackerman, Elizabeth A. Stanton
PART VI: DIRECTIONS IN MITIGATION POLICY DESIGN
25. The Legal Framework of Global Environment Governance on Climate Change: A Critical Survey
Raphaële Chappe
26. Environment and Development Challenges: The Imperative of a Carbon Fee and Dividend
James E. Hansen
27. The Need for Sustainable Development and a Carbon Market: Avoiding Extinction
Graciela Chichilnisky