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The Role of Fiscal Instruments in Environmental Policy
Kosonen, Katri - 2009
Environmental protection is one of Europe's key values. The EU has set clear policy objectives to achieve its … environmental goals. The EU has favoured market-based instruments, among which fiscal instruments to tackle the climate change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157842
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More Gas, Less Cole, and Less CO2? Unilateral CO2 Reduction Policy with More than One Carbon Energy Source
Daubanes, Julien - 2017
We examine an open economy's strategy to reduce its carbon emissions by replacing its consumption of coal - very carbon intensive - with gas - less so. Unlike the standard analysis of carbon leakage, unilateral carbon-reduction policies with more than one carbon energy source may turn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943061
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Climate Policies : A Burden or a Gain?
Bréchet, Thierry; Tulkens, Henry - 2021
That climate policies are costly is evident and therefore often creates major fears. But the alternative (no action) also has a cost. Mitigation costs and damages incurred depend on what the climate policies are; moreover, they are substitutes. This brings climate policies naturally in the realm...
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Are international environmental policies effective? : the case of the Rotterdam and the Stockholm Conventions
Núñez-Rocha, Thaís; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2018
This paper is the first to estimate the effect of two international agreements (Rotterdam Convention, RC, and the Stockholm Convention, SC) in reducing trade in hazardous substances. We estimate the effects of ratification of these agreements on imports of the affected products putting emphasis...
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Low hanging fruit in Australia's climate policy
Jotzo, Frank; McKibbin, Warwick J. - 2021
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The drivers of emission reductions in the European carbon market
Bjørnland, Hilde Christiane; Cross, Jamie; Kapfhammer, … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014432574
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The right of withdrawal in the treaty of Lison : a game theoretic reflection on different decision processes in the EU
Lechner, Susanne (contributor); Ohr, Renate (contributor) - 2008
The ways of decision making within the EU have significantly changed in the last decades: the rule of unanimity has … compensating transfers by using the right of withdrawal: It might threaten to leave the EU if the compensation is denied. Are … as high as in the case of unanimity. In practise, the EU will offer compensating transfers depending on how credible a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003776195
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Enhanced cooporation in an enlarged EU
Ahrens, Joachim (contributor); Ohr, Renate (contributor);  … - 2006
the paper analyzes different possible developments of selected common policies in the EU if enhanced cooperation is … practised by a sub-group of EU-members. Based on cluster analysis similarities and distinctions among the EU members with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003314997
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Sind Referenden eine Antwort auf das Demokratiedilemma der EU?
Heinig, Hans Michael - 2009
Die direkte Demokratie fungiert heute auf den ersten Blick als eine Art Gretchenfrage des deutschen Staatsrechts, aber auch der Parteienlandschaft. In der Ägide eines hyperpragmatischen Politikverständnisses scheint die Einstellung zu Elementen direkt-demokratischer Willensbildung zuweilen der...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850740
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Cointegration in the foreign exchange market and market efficiency since the introduction of the euro : evidence based on bivariate cointegration analyses
Kühl, Michael (contributor) - 2007
The aim of this paper is to investigate the market efficiency on the foreign exchange market since the introduction of the Euro by applying the cointegration analysis to exchange rates. The introduction of the Euro has changed the structure of the global foreign exchange market to the extent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003582754