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The environmental Kuznets Curve - a survey of the empirical evidence and of possible causes

Lieb, Christoph Martin - 2003

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011620554

Tol, Richard S. J. (contributor) - 2008

I review the literature on the economic impacts of climate change, an externality that is unprecedentedly large, complex, and uncertain. Only 14 estimates of the total damage cost of climate change have been published, a research effort that is in sharp contrast to the urgency of the public...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003770241

Metrics for aggregating the climate effect of different emissions : a unifying framework

Tol, Richard S. J.; Berntsen, Terje K.; O'Neill, Brian C.; … - 2008

Multi-gas approaches to climate change policies require a metric establishing "equivalences" among emissions of various species. Climate scientists and economists have proposed four classes of such metrics and debated their relative merits. We present a unifying framework that clarifies the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003770248

The impact of tax reform on new car purchases in Ireland

Hennessy, Hugh; Tol, Richard S. J. - 2010

We examine the impact of recent tax reforms in Ireland on private car transport and its greenhouse gas emissions. A carbon tax was introduced on fuels, and purchase (vehicle registration) and ownership (motor) taxes were switched from engine size to potential emissions. We use a demographic...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003990410

Innovation without magic bullets : stock pollution and R&D sequences

Goeschl, Timo; Perino, Grischa - 2006

there is no perfectly clean technology that eventually solves the pollution problem once and for all. New technologies have … stings attached, i.e. each emits a specific stock pollutant. Damages are convex in individual pollution stocks but additive … across stocks, creating gains from diversification. The research and pollution policies are tightly linked in such a setting …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003592656

On backstops and boomerangs : environmental R&D under technological uncertainty

Goeschl, Timo; Perino, Grischa - 2007

the new technology may turn out to generate a new pollution problem. R&D may therefore be optimally undertaken more than … the optimal pollution and R&D policies. The optimal R&D program is strictly sequential and has an endogenous stopping …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003592670

Greener homes: an ex-post estimate of the cost of carbon dioxide emission reduction using administrative micro-data from the republic of Ireland

Leahy, Eimear; Tol, Richard S. J. - 2011

We assess the subsidy for the installation of biomass boilers and wood gasification boilers under the Greener Homes Scheme in Ireland. We find that the (implicit) subsidy per tonne of carbon dioxide avoided varies hugely across households. The current policy costs 17% too much for the emissions...

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Checking the price tag on catastrophe : the social cost of carbon under non-linear climate response

Ceronsky, Megan; Anthoff, David; Hepburn, Cameron; Tol, … - 2011

Research into the social cost of carbon emissions - the marginal social damage from a tonne of emitted carbon - has tended to focus on "best guess" scenarios. Such scenarios generally ignore the potential for low-probability, high-damage events, which are critically important to determining...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009157026

Socioeconomic distribution of emissions and resource use in Ireland

Lyons, Seán; Pentecost, Anne; Tol, Richard S. J. - 2012

emit the least per person. -- pollution ; household emissions ; distributional analysis …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009531371

Decomposition of sectoral greenhouse gas emissions : a subsystem input-output model for the Republic of Ireland

Llop Llop, María; Tol, Richard S. J. - 2011

The analysis of gas emissions by an input-output subsystem approach provides detailed insights into pollution …

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