EEU Seminar with Thomas Sterner
The next Environmental Economics Unit Seminar will be held on February 12 (now on Monday), 12:00 – 13:00, in B44 and we invite all who might be interested to join us. The seminar will be given by…
Costa Rica's Payment for Ecosystem Services scheme has been evaluated
EfD Central America researchers worked with the National Forestry Financing Fund (Fonafifo) to analyze the impact of the Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) programs implemented since the 90s on the…
Researchers explore the potential of carbon taxation in Ghana and Nigeria
Researchers from EfD Ghana and EfD Nigeria are embarking on a project aiming to tackle climate change while fostering economic growth. Titled Understanding the Incentives and Obstacles to effective…
Urban authorities called to harness human waste for biogas and fertilizers
Environmental economists from Makerere University have called on urban authorities to harness the abundant human and organic waste in the cities to produce biogas and organic fertilizers. They argue…
Do innovation, financial development and institutional quality matter in managing carbon risk?
EfD Authors:
Using territorial- and consumption-based carbon emissions as proxies for carbon risk, the study examined the impact of innovation on carbon risk while controlling for institutional quality and financial development effects in the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) from 1986 to 2021. To address cross-sectional dependence and ensure robustness, we employed the augmented mean group (AMG) and cross-sectional autoregressive distributed lags (CS-ARDL) estimation techniques.