Bulgaria is undergoing a profound socio-economic transformation brought about by extraordinary demographic change. Between 1950 and 1990, Bulgaria’s population grew from 7.3 million to 8.8 million and then declined to 7.5 million by 2010. Low birth rates and high mortality rates combined with...

Intensity standards have gained substantial momentum as a regulatory instrument in US climate policy. Based on numerical simulations with a large-scale computable general equilibrium model we show that intensity standards may rather increase than decrease counterproductive carbon leakage....

Bulgaria is in the midst of a serious demographic transition that will shrink its population at one of the highest rates in the world within the next few decades. This study analyzes the macroeconomic and fiscal implications of this demographic transition by using a long-term model, which...

Gegenstand dieser im Auftrag des Ministeriums für Umwelt und Verkehr Baden-Württemberg erstellten Studie sind die Chancen und Risiken, die mit dem Einsatz von Instrumenten zur räumlichen Flexibilisierung von Reduktionszielen in der deutschen oder auch in der europäischen Klimapolitik...

In the context of climate protection policy it has been suggested that global CO2 emissions should be reduced significantly (contraction) and that per capita emissions should gradually be equalized across countries (convergence). This paper uses a dynamic multi-region computable general...

Carbon-based import tariffs are discussed as policy measures to reduce carbon leakage and increase the global cost-effectiveness of unilateral CO2 emission pricing. We assess how the potential of carbon tariffs to increase cost-effectiveness of unilateral climate policy depends on the magnitude...