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On 31 March, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its latest report on the impacts of climate change on humans and ecosystems (see go.nature.com/ad5v1b). These are real risks…

28 April 2014 | Peer Reviewed | Sweden

This paper concerns optimal redistributive non-linear income taxation in an OLG model, where people care about their own consumption relative to (i) other people's current consumption, (ii) own past…

28 April 2014 | Peer Reviewed | Sweden

Although the financial and economic crises have diverted attention from global and local environmental threats and natural resources management issues in developing and developed economies…

25 April 2014 | Peer Reviewed | Sweden

Biogas as a technology and the factors that affect its productivity have both been well studied. Research has previously been done to look at the impact of temperature, pH, organic loading rate…

25 April 2014 | Peer Reviewed | Ethiopia

Certification is intended to improve management of and environmental outcomes in developing country forests. Yet we know little about whether and how it actually generates such benefits. To address…

25 April 2014 | EfD Discussion Paper |

Economic growth in industrialized countries over the past few decades did not result in improved subjective well-being (SWB) of citizens. This finding, known as the “Easterlin Paradox,” is mainly a…

24 April 2014 | Research Brief | Ethiopia

Rising prices of fossil fuels, together with apprehension about the environmental harm created by them, have resulted in increasing efforts to search for alternative energy sources such as biofuels…

24 April 2014 | Research Brief | Ethiopia, Global Hub

In this paper, after a review of the evolution of the literature on climate change economics in agriculture, I present some evidence of the impact of different moments of the distribution of rainfall…

21 April 2014 | Peer Reviewed | Ethiopia

This study investigates the impact of climate change adaptation on farm households’ downside risk exposure in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia. The analysis relies on a moment-based specification of the…

21 April 2014 | Peer Reviewed | Ethiopia

Miguel Quiroga wrote an opinion article about the tax reform drove for Chilean government (in spanish). http://www.elsur.cl/impresa/2014/04/11/full/2/

11 April 2014 | Other Publications | Chile