Economics of Climate Change in Argentina

Maria Elisa Belfiori holds a Ph.D. in Economics for the University of Minnesota. Elisa is a professor in the School of Business at the Torcuato Di Tella University in Argentina. Previously, she was a research economist at the Pontifical Catholic University in Argentina, and held a tenure-track assistant professorship position in the Economics Department at Colorado State University (United States of America). She also worked as a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and at the Central Bank of Argentina. Her field of expertise is at the intersection of Macroeconomics and Climate Economics. Her research focuses on the optimal taxation of carbon emissions and intergenerational climate equity. Monetary economics and public finance are also part of her research fields. Elisa has contributed to two edited books, and her research has been published in the European Economic Review, Energy Policy, among others. Mariano Javier Rabassa holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States. He is a professor and researcher at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina. Previously he was a full-time consultant at The World Bank, in Washington DC, working on topics related to socio-economic impacts of climate change. His expertise covers a broad set of environmental issues, with special emphasis on impact evaluation of environmental policies and the quantification of climate change impacts. His academic work has been recognized by the University of Illinois and the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (United States) and has been published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Environmental and Development Economics, Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, among others.

“Readers who are not trained in quantitative research will benefit from the book because the explanations and interpretations provided by the authors are comprehensible and, in most cases, also plausible. … The book provides valuable insights and demonstrates that convincing findings on the Global South … . Social scientists trained in qualitative research will be motivated to use these findings as a starting point … .” (Sören Scholvin, European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Issue 112, 2021)

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The impacts of extreme temperatures on mortality risks in Argentina.- Chapter 3. Mitigation and adaptation processes in crop yields. The case of soybeans in Argentina.- Chapter 4. Beyond the Question "Is there Carbon Decoupling". Decoupling Rankings.- Chapter 5. How could trade liberalization on environmental goods and services reduce CO2 Emissions? Decomposing Scale, Technique and Composition effects in a CGE approach.- Chapter 6. Carbon taxes and renewable energy: a discussion about the Green paradox.- Chapter 7. Climate change and Sustainable Development Goals.- Chapter 8. Climate change and Argentina: policy issues.- Chapter 9. Concluding remarks.