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The fiscal implications of stringent climate policy
Richard S. J. Tol
Stringent climate policy compatible with the targets of the 2015 Paris Agreement would pose a substantial fiscal challenge. Reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 95% or more by 2050…
The Nobel Family
Richard S. J. Tol
Nobel laureates cluster together. 696 of the 727 winners of the Nobel Prize in physics, chemistry, medicine, and economics belong to one single academic family tree. 668 trace thei…
Navigating the energy trilemma during geopolitical and environmental crises
Richard S. J. Tol
There are many indicators of energy security. Few measure what really matters -- affordable and reliable energy supply -- and the trade-offs between the two. Reliability is physica…
Relevance of financial development and fiscal stability in dealing with disasters in Emerging Economies
Valeria Terrones, Richard S. J. Tol
Previous studies show that natural disasters decelerate economic growth, and more so in countries with lower financial development. We confirm these results with more recent data.…
Costs and Benefits of the Paris Climate Targets
Richard S. J. Tol
The temperature targets in the Paris Agreement cannot be met without very rapid reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and removal of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The latter…
A meta-analysis of the total economic impact of climate change
Richard S. J. Tol
Earlier meta-analyses of the economic impact of climate change are updated with more data, with three new results: (1) The central estimate of the economic impact of global warming…
The IPCC and the challenge of ex post policy evaluation
Richard S. J. Tol
The IPCC started at a time when climate policy was an aspiration for the future. The research assessed in the early IPCC reports was necessarily about potential climate policies, a…
Confidence Intervals for Recursive Journal Impact Factors
Johannes Konig, David I. Stern, Richard S. J. Tol
We compute confidence intervals for recursive impact factors, that take into account that some citations are more prestigious than others, as well as for the associated ranks of jo…
Estimates of the social cost of carbon have increased over time
Richard S. J. Tol
A meta-analysis of published estimates shows that the social cost of carbon has increased as knowledge about climate change accumulates. Correcting for inflation and emission year…
Rise of the Kniesians: The professor-student network of Nobel laureates in economics
Richard S. J. Tol
The paper presents the professor-student network of Nobel laureates in economics. 74 of the 79 Nobelists belong to one family tree. The remaining 5 belong to 3 separate trees. Ther…
Applications of the Coase Theorem
Tatyana Deryugina, Frances Moore, Richard S. J. Tol
The Coase Theorem has a central place in the theory of environmental economics and regulation. But its applicability for solving real-world externality problems remains debated. In…
The structure of the climate debate
Richard S. J. Tol
First-best climate policy is a uniform carbon tax which gradually rises over time. Civil servants have complicated climate policy to expand bureaucracies, politicians to create ren…