We compare the performance of four types of support schemes aimed at improving residential energy efficiency in France: the income tax credit, a grant scheme, the reduction of the value-added tax, and the White Certificates. We use the TREMI dataset which covers close to 14,000 households that...
The first dimension measures “faith in the capacity of the invisible hand to adjust the natural thermostat.” At one extreme we find (most) mainstream climate economists who want to make the market work for the environment and get the prices right. Theirs is a—what Nordhaus (2007, p. 689...
Evidence-based studies point to the instrumental contribution of faith to substance abuse prevention and recovery. A large majority of cases show that religious and spiritual beliefs and practices lead to lower levels of substance abuse, including reduced likelihood of using various drugs, in the cour...
prevent the displacement of significant numbers of blue- and white-collar workers. If these jobs are not to be replaced this could lead to masses of people who will be effectively unemployable, immense increases in income inequality and breakdowns in the social order at least in a short-term ...
If a global ETS with a uniform carbon price could be introduced, additional governmental regulations with regard to carbon emissions would become obsolete. Keywords: Carbon pricing; carbon law; remaining carbon budget; reduction path; policy framework; emissions trading; Pigouvian tax; global cap-and...
In theory at least, fully connected driverless vehicles have the capacity to transform urban development as known today, with a revolution in ground transport, regulations permitting, that could dramatically change the landscape of cities and have an enormous economic, social, spatial, and mobility ...