Do economic conditions affect climate change beliefs and support for climate action? Evidence from the US in the wake of the Great Recession

Chapter 6 examines the long-term effects of international soft law on policy in the United States since 2008. The extent and type of post-crisis US cooperation with foreign jurisdictions have varied considerably with far-reaching ramifications for international financial markets. Focusing on the international interaction of reforms in banking and derivatives, the chapter uses the book’s approach to understand US regulation in the wake of the Great Recession. The authors attribute seemingly random variation in the US relationship to foreign regulation and markets to differences in pre-crisis international soft law. Here, the existence (or absence) of robust soft law and standard-creating institutions determines the resources available to policy entrepreneurs as well as their orientation and attitudes toward international cooperation. Soft law plays a central role in the evolution of US regulatory reform and its interface with the rest of the world.

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The European Union Green Deal: Clean Energy Wellbeing Opportunities and the Risk of the Jevons Paradox

Energies ◽

10.3390/en14144148 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 14 (14) ◽

pp. 4148

Author(s):

Estrella Trincado ◽

Antonio Sánchez-Bayón ◽

José María Vindel

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

European Union ◽

Great Recession ◽

International Institutions ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Clean Energy ◽

The European Union ◽

The Great Recession ◽

Financial Framework ◽

The Common

After the Great Recession of 2008, there was a strong commitment from several international institutions and forums to improve wellbeing economics, with a switch towards satisfaction and sustainability in people–planet–profit relations. The initiative of the European Union is the Green Deal, which is similar to the UN SGD agenda for Horizon 2030. It is the common political economy plan for the Multiannual Financial Framework, 2021–2027. This project intends, at the same time, to stop climate change and to promote the people’s wellness within healthy organizations and smart cities with access to cheap and clean energy. However, there is a risk for the success of this aim: the Jevons paradox. In this paper, we make a thorough revision of the literature on the Jevons Paradox, which implies that energy efficiency leads to higher levels of consumption of energy and to a bigger hazard of climate change and environmental degradation.

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The Great Recession, behavioral health, and self-rated health: An examination of racial/ethnic differences in the US

Addictive Behaviors ◽

10.1016/j.addbeh.2021.106873 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 118 ◽

pp. 106873

Author(s):

Nina Mulia ◽

Yu Ye ◽

Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe ◽

Libo Li ◽

William C. Kerr ◽

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Keyword(s):

Behavioral Health ◽

Ethnic Differences ◽

Great Recession ◽

The Great Recession ◽

Self Rated Health ◽

The Us ◽

Racial Ethnic

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Money and credit during normal times and house price booms: evidence from time-frequency analysis

Empirica ◽

10.1007/s10663-019-09457-2 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 47 (4) ◽

pp. 835-861

Author(s):

Maciej Ryczkowski

Keyword(s):

Great Recession ◽

House Prices ◽

House Price ◽

Industrialized Countries ◽

Time Frequency ◽

The Great Recession ◽

Time Period ◽

Price Boom ◽

The Us ◽

Short Run

Abstract I analyse the link between money and credit for twelve industrialized countries in the time period from 1970 to 2016. The euro area and Commonwealth Countries have rather strong co-movements between money and credit at longer frequencies. Denmark and Switzerland show weak and episodic effects. Scandinavian countries and the US are somewhere in between. I find strong and significant longer run co-movements especially around booming house prices for all of the sample countries. The analysis suggests the expansionary policy that cleans up after the burst of a bubble may exacerbate the risk of a new house price boom. The interrelation is hidden in the short run, because the co-movements are then rarely statistically significant. According to the wavelet evidence, developments of money and credit since the Great Recession or their decoupling in Japan suggest that it is more appropriate to examine the two variables separately in some circumstances.

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