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An Environmental-Economic Measure of Sustainable Development

Cairns, Robert D.; Martinet, Vincent - CESifo - 2013

A central issue in the study of sustainable development is the interplay of growth and sacrifice in a dynamic economy. This paper investigates the relationship among current consumption, sacrifice, and sustainability improvement in a general context and in two canonical, stylized economies. We...

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The Learning Process and Technological Change in Wind Power: Evidence from China's CDM Wind Projects

Tang, Tian; Popp, David - CESifo - 2014

since 2002. Using pooled cross-sectional data of 486 registered CDM wind projects in China from 2002 to 2009, we examine the … manufacturers in China’s wind power industry. …

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Brown Growth, Green Growth, and the Efficiency of Urbanization

Quaas, Martin F.; Smulders, Sjak - CESifo - 2012

We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a stylized dynamic model of urban growth with three sectors of … production. Pollution, as a force that discourages agglomeration, is caused by domestic production. We show that cities are too … large and too few in number in uncoordinated equilibrium if economic growth implies increasing pollution (‘brown growth …

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Environmental and Technology Policy Options in the Electricity Sector: Interactions and Outcomes

Fischer, Carolyn; Newell, Richard G.; Preonas, Louis - CESifo - 2014

Myriad policy measures aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector, promote generation from renewable sources, and encourage energy conservation. To what extent do innovation and energy efficiency (EE) market failures justify additional interventions when a carbon price is...

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Bush Meets Hotelling: Effects of Improved Renewable Energy Technology on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Hoel, Michael - CESifo - 2008

Fossil fuels are non-renewable carbon resources, and the extraction path of these resources depends both on present and future demand. When this "Hotelling feature" is taken into consideration, the whole price path of carbon fuel will shift downwards as a response to the reduced cost of the...

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The Supply Side of CO2 with Country Heterogeneity

Hoel, Michael - CESifo - 2011

Several recent articles have analyzed climate policy giving explicit attention to the non-renewable character of carbon resources. In most of this literature the economy is treated as a single unit, which in the context of climate policy seems reasonable to interpret as the whole world. However,...

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Cutting Costs of Catching Carbon - Intertemporal Effects under Imperfect Climate Policy

Hoel, Michael; Jensen, Svenn - CESifo - 2010

We use a two-period model to investigate intertemporal effects of cost reductions in climate change mitigation technologies for the power sector. With imperfect climate policies, cost reductions related to carbon capture and storage (CCS) may be more desirable than com-parable cost reductions...

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Interaction of Carbon Reduction and Green Energy Promotion in a Small Fossil-Fuel Importing Economy

Pethig, Rüdiger; Wittlich, Christian - CESifo - 2009

We study the incidence of carbon-reduction and green-energy promotion policies in an open fossil-fuel importing general equilibrium economy. The focus is on mixed price-based or quantity-based policies. Instruments directed toward promoting green energy are shown to reduce also carbon emissions...

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France's Environmental Policies: Internalising Global and Local Externalities

Egert, Balazs - CESifo - 2012

also at dealing with local air and water pollution, waste management and the conservation of biodiversity. The laws that …

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Efficient Management of Insecure Fossil Fuel Imports through Taxing (!) Domestic Green Energy?

Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2010

A small open economy produces a consumer good, green and black energy, and imports fossil fuel at an uncertain price. Unregulated competitive markets are shown to be inefficient. The implied market failures are due to the agents’ attitudes toward risk, to risk shifting and the uniform price...

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