National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) NBER Working Paper No. 15621 by Siqi Zheng, Rui Wang, Edward L. Glaeser and Matthew E. Kahn http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15621 [Abstract from Environmental Valuation and Cost Benefit News] China urbanization is associated with both increases in per-capita income and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper uses micro data to rank 74 major … Continue reading »
Posted on February 1, 2010 …
The Impact of Hurricanes on Housing Prices: Evidence from US Coastal Cities
Munich Personal REPEC Archive MPRA via Research Papers in Economics (REPEC) http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/pramprapa/19353.htm by Anthony Murphy and Eric Strobl [Abstract from Environmental Valuation and Cost Benefit News] We investigate the effect of hurricane strikes on housing prices in US coastal cities. To this end, we construct a new index of hurricane destruction which varies over time … Continue reading »
Investment Managers Still Lagging in Response to Climate Change Risks and Opportunities
CERES Report http://www.ceres.org/Page.aspx?pid=1175 [Abstract from Environmental Valuation and Cost Benefit News] “Although there is overwhelming scientific consensus that climate change is underway and governments are imposing regulations to curb greenhouse gases, the vast majority of the world’s largest investment managers are not factoring climate-related trends into their short- and long-term investment decision-making, the result being … Continue reading »
Droughts, Floods and Financial Distress in the United States
National Bureau for Economic Research NBER Working Paper No. 15596 (small fee for non-subscribers) by John Landon-Lane, Hugh Rockoff and Richard H. Steckel http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15596 [Abstract from Environmental Valuation and Cost Benefit News] The relationships among the weather, agricultural markets, and financial markets have long been of interest to economic historians, but relatively little empirical work … Continue reading »
Renewable Electricity Generation in the United States
by Richard Schmalensee MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research (CEEPR) Working Paper 09-017 http://tinyurl.com/yakyjm8 [Abstract from Environmental Valuation and Cost Benefit News] This paper provides an overview of the use of renewable energy sources to generate electricity in the United States and a critical analysis of the federal and state policies that have … Continue reading »
