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What Should we Expect from Innovation? A Model-Based Assessment of the Environmental and Mitigation Cost Implications of Climate-Related R&D
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Duval, Romain; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper addresses two basic issues related to technological innovation and climate stabilisation objectives: i) Can innovation policies be effective in stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations? ii) To what extent can innovation policies complement carbon pricing (taxes or permit trading) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468637
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Economic Reform in Europe: Integrating and Liberalizing the Market for Services
Newbery, David M G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
risk management through contracting, and designing markets and regulation to ensure effective and sustainable competition … and gas. The Paper argues that there is unfinished business in the areas of regulation, restructuring, encouraging proper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661538
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Trade, Strategic Innovation and Strategic Environmental Policy - a General Analysis
Ulph, Alistair Mitchell; Ulph, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
about the competitive advantage their industries might obtain in a world of fierce trade competition. Some claim governments … policies for strategic reasons, and to test these claims requires modelling environmental policy in a world of imperfect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136590
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Are the Costs of Cleaning Up Eastern Europe Exaggerated? Economic Reform and the Environment
Hughes, Gordon - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990
Widespread concern has been expressed that the costs of reducing environmental pollution in Eastern Europe will divert resources that would otherwise be available for industrial modernization. In fact, apart from a number of severely damaged areas, the general level of exposure to major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005281413
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Centralization and Accountability: Theory and Evidence from the Clean Air Act
Boffa, Federico; Piolatto, Amedeo; Ponzetto, Giacomo AM - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper studies fiscal federalism when regions differ in voters’ ability to monitor public officials. We develop a model of political agency in which rent-seeking politicians provide public goods to win support from heterogeneously informed voters. In equilibrium, voter information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084457
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Environmental Regulation and the Location of Polluting Industries
Rauscher, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
regulation and to unacceptable standards of environmental quality? The paper attempts to answer this question in a non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792418
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On Income Inequality and Green Preferences
Marsiliani, Laura; Renström, Thomas I - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
We derive conditions of individual preferences and technology that give rise to a negative correlation between income inequality and environmental protection. We present a class of models (which captures a static model as well as an overlapping-generations model) in which individuals differ in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662063
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Trade Law and Environmental Issues in Central and East European Countries
Rauscher, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
International trade and environmental regulation are interdependent. Central and East European Countries (CEECs) are … experience with existing international agreements. The major questions are: (i) how the capture of environmental regulation by … harmful tax competition in the field of environmental regulation; and (v) how international disputes can be resolved. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666939
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How Elections Matter: Theory and Evidence from Environmental Policy
List, John; Sturm, Daniel M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
In this Paper we explore to what extent secondary policy issues are influenced by electoral incentives. We develop a political agency model in which a politician decides on both a frontline policy issue, such as the level of public spending, and a secondary policy issue, such as environmental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789133
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Inequality, Environmental Protection and Growth
Marsiliani, Laura; Renström, Thomas I - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
We analyse how, in representative democracies, income distribution influences the stringency of environmental policy and economic growth. Individuals (who differ in abilities) live for two periods, working when young and owning capital when old. Externalities are caused by a polluting factor....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791379