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| Zhao, Xiaobing. |
| We study how carbon dioxide (CO2) emission cuts affect income for 23 OECD countries over the 1980-2004 period. The importance of this question is manifested in the disagreements at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen and the 2010 State of the Union Address by United States President Barack Obama. We start by deriving an income-CO2 relationship based on a structural production function, which is a natural way to model the relationship among income, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions. We then use a similar empirical methodology as Tucker (1995) to estimate the income-CO2 relationship. Such an approach not only allows us to focus on the long-run relationship but also enables us to project the relationship between income and CO2... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Carbon Dioxide Emissions; Income; Global Warming; Production Function; Environmental Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/103412 |
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| Ricker-Gilbert, Jacob; Jayne, Thomas S.; Black, J. Roy. |
| Despite their strain on government and donor budgets, fertilizer subsidies have once again become popular policy tools in several Sub-Saharan Africa countries as a potential way to increase yields in staple crops like maize. Policy makers often assume that farmers who receive the subsidy will achieve yield responses that are similar to those obtained by farmers who pay commercial prices for the input. This notion has not been verified empirically. Our study uses panel data from Malawi, a country that recently implemented a fertilizer subsidy program, to compare maize yield response to fertilizer from farmers who received subsidized fertilizer with yield responses from those who paid commercial prices for the input. Descriptive results indicate that maize... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Malawi; Fertilizer Subsidies; Production Function; Crop Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49532 |
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