Cost-Effective Unilateral Climate Policy Design: Size Matters

Cost-effective design of economic instruments in nutrition policy

This paper addresses the potential for using economic regulation, e.g. taxes or subsidies, as instruments to combat the increasing problems of inappropriate diets, leading to health problems such as obesity, diabetes 2, cardiovascular diseases etc. in most countries. Such policy measures may be considered as alternatives or supplements to other regulation instruments, including information camp...

Electricity, Renewables, and Climate Change: Searching for a Cost-Effective Policy

Cost-effective VPC network design

Complex environments for ATM based telecommunication services assume high availability and reliability of the network resources as well as the services. In order to reduce the cost of building and maintaining wide area ATM networks, efficient and cost-effective resource management techniques are needed to avoid over-allocation of resources. This requires building a network having the intelligen...

Size matters

Charles Darwin when developing his theory of evolution. And a new study of work on the islands' marine iguanas may help throw some more light on the evolution of body size within these populations. Body size is one of the most important traits of organisms and allows predictions of an individual's morphology, physiology, behaviour and life history. However, explaining the evolution of such comp...

Climate Policy Design with Correlated Uncertainties in Offset Supply and Abatement Cost

Current and proposed greenhouse gas cap-and-trade systems allow regulated entities to offset abatement requirements by paying unregulated entities to abate. These offsets from unregulated entities are believed to contain system costs and stabilize allowance prices. However, the supply of offsets is highly uncertain and may be correlated with other sources of uncertainty in emissions trading sys...