in energy and environmental policies. It describes fiscal instruments as cost-effective means to promote environmental …

externalities associated with energy use—global warming, local air pollution, and various side effects (e.g., congestion) from motor … vehicles. Techniques for (roughly) estimating the magnitude of these externalities, and corrective energy taxes, on a country …-by-country basis are then described. The implications for reforming energy taxes, and the potential environmental, health, and fiscal …

followed the Grenelle de l’environnement encompass policy measures in energy generation, manufacturing, transport, waste …

Policies affecting the cost of energy use provide correct incentives for technology choices only if there is a market … reward for energy efficiency. We provide clean evidence for market efficiency by considering how heating technologies … differ-ential obtained from external data on energy contract prices. Technologies act as “labels” with clear market valuation …

’ energy and climate policy. Japan is one of the biggest emitters of greenhouses gases in the world and still far away from …

We analyse optimal environmental policies in a market that is vertically differentiated in terms of the energy … efficiency of products. Considering energy taxes, subsidies to firms for investment in more eco-friendly products, and product … policy instruments. Surprisingly, we find that an industry-friendly government levies an energy tax to supplement a lax …