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Boehringer, Christoph - 2014

Concerns about adverse impacts on domestic energy-intensive and trade-exposed (EITE) industries are at the fore of the political debate about unilateral climate policies. Tariffs on the carbon embodied in imported goods from countries without emission pricing appeal as a measure to reduce carbon...

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Strategic Approaches to CO2 Emissions - The Case of the Cement Industry and of the Chemical Industry

Arjaliès, Diane-Laure - 2014

The ability of companies to turn an environmental constraint into a source of strategic opportunities is a controversial topic in published research. The article, which is based on a comparative study of the CO2 emission reduction strategies implemented by the cement and chemical industries,...

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The Regulator's Trade-Off : Bank Supervision vs. Minimum Capital

Buck, Florian - 2013

We develop a simple model of banking regulation with two policy instruments: minimum capital requirements and supervision of domestic banks. The regulator faces a trade-off: high capital requirements cause a drop in the banks' profitability, while strict supervision reduces the scope of...

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Buy Coal! Deposit Markets Prevent Carbon Leakage

Harstad, Bård - 2013

If a coalition of countries implements climate policies, nonparticipants tend to consume more, pollute more, and invest too little in renewable energy sources. In response, the coalition's equilibrium policy distorts trade and it is not time consistent. By adding a market for the right to...

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Exploring the International Linkages of the Euro Area : A Global VAR Analysis

Dees, Stephane - 2006

This paper presents a global model linking individual country vector error-correcting models in which the domestic variables are related to the country-specific variables as an approximate solution to a global common factor model. This global VAR is estimated for 26 countries, the euro area...

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Delayed Participation of Developing Countries to Climate Agreements : Should Action in the EU and US be Postponed?

Bosetti, Valentina - 2015

. Technology deployment is also affected by the timing of developing countries' mitigation measures. Delayed NA1-country …

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International Energy R&D Spillovers and the Economics of Greenhouse Gas Atmospheric Stabilization

Bosetti, Valentina - 2014

regional model of the world economy, in which energy technical change is endogenous. The focus is on disembodied energy Ramp … different regions of the world? Does the speed of innovation increase? Or do free-riding incentives prevail and international … mix in which climate policy is combined with a technology policy designed to enhance absorption capacity in developing …

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Airline Fuel Usage and Carbon Emissions : Determining Factors

Brueckner, Jan K. - 2016

Using annual data on individual US airlines over the 1995-2015 period, this paper presents regression results relating an airline's total fuel usage to seven variables: the available ton miles of capacity (passengers plus freight and mail) provided by the airline; the average seat capacity of its...

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Inequality and the Social Cost of Carbon

Anthoff, David - 2016

This paper presents a novel way to disentangle inequality aversion over time from inequality aversion between regions in the computation of the Social Cost of Carbon. Our approach nests a standard efficiency based Social Cost of Carbon estimate and an equity weighted Social Cost of Carbon...

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Politicized Trade : What Drives Withdrawal of Trade Preferences?

Gassebner, Martin - 2018

While it is well understood that industrialized countries use aid to grant political favors, little research covers alternative channels such as trade policy towards developing countries. We analyze eligibility investigations and revoking of U.S. Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) benefits...

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