public administration reforms for a panel of EU countries using a novel reform indicator. The findings support the political … Europe. Administrative reforms which boost the efficiency of the administration can alleviate the trade-off between … other EU countries, and for vertical learning associated with a particular type of EU transfers. …

Ambitious unilateral EU environmental policy has raised concerns about adverse competitiveness implications for … measures to address these concerns in the EU Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS): border tax adjustments (BTA) and the Clean … policy on energy-intensive and export-oriented industries. The regulatory protection of these industries via subsidies for EU …

allocation for ETS sectors. Linking the Chinese to the European ETS and restricting the transfer volume to one third of the EU …

impacts on the EU. The methodological framework used is based on a multi-country and multi-sectoral computable general … equilibrium model for eleven EU-member states. The emphasis of the analysis lies on the institutional setting of a carbon dioxide … findings of the paper can be summarized as follows: 1) There is some potential for a double dividend in the EU. 2) Coordination …

greenhouse gas entitlements and to analyse the potential impacts of these rules EU-wide as well as on the level of member states … multi-sectoral computable general equilibrium model for fourteen EU-member states. The major finding of the paper is that … EU economies allows smaller economies not to make full use of the advantages they get through the ability …

differentiated permit schemes, evaluating the U.S. Acid Rain and RECLAIM Program, and considering the setting in the EU-15 countries … addressed adequately by a differentiated bundle of countermeasures. The general economic impact of an EU-wide permit scheme is …

administration to engage in Post-Kyoto negotiations, recent developments suggest that the U.S. position towards climate policy might …

This paper develops and implements a new benchmarking approach for labor market regions. Based on panel data for …