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Ageing and Growth in the Small Open Economy

Heijdra, Ben J.; Romp, Ward E. - CESifo - 2006

We construct an overlapping generations model for the small open economy whichincorporates a realistic description of the mortality process. Agents engage in educational activities at the start of life and thus create human capital to be used later on in life for production purposes. Depending...

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Did the Japanese Patient Follow the Doctor's Orders? Mostly no! A Public Choice Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Schemes in Japan before and after the Earthquake

Rudolph, Sven; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2011

The Great Tôhoku-Earthquake and the following nuclear meltdown in Fukushima called the world’s attention to Japans’ energy and climate policy. Japan is one of the biggest emitters of greenhouses gases in the world and still far away from reaching its Kyoto target. Emissions trading systems...

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Green Serves the Dirtiest: On the Interaction between Black and Green Quotas

Böhringer, Christoph; Rosendahl, Knut Einar - CESifo - 2009

Tradable black (CO2) and green (renewables) quotas gain in popularity and stringency within climate policies of many OECD countries. The overlapping regulation through both instruments, however, may have important adverse economic implications. Based on stylized theoretical analysis and...

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EU-Type Carbon Emissions Trade and the Distributional Impact of Overlapping Emissions Taxes

Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2009

The European Union fulfills its emissions reductions commitments by means of an emissions trading scheme covering some part of each member state’s economy and by national emissions control in the rest of their economies. The member states also levy energy/emissions taxes overlapping with the...

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Efficient CO2 Emissions Control with National Emissions Taxes and International Emissions Trading

Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2007

In a group of countries like the European Union all countries seek to achieve their national CO2 emissions target by a joint emissions trading scheme covering some part of their economies (trading sector) and by a national emissions tax in the rest of their economies (nontrading sector)....

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International Carbon Emissions Trading and Strategic Incentives to Subsidize Green Energy

Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2010

This paper examines strategic incentives to subsidize green energy in a group of countries that operates an international carbon emissions trading scheme. Welfare-maximizing national governments have the option to discriminate against energy from fossil fuels by subsidizing green energy,...

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International Climate Agreements, Cost Reductions and Convergence of Partisan Politics

Laurency, Patrick; Schindler, Dirk - CESifo - 2011

In recent years, differences between traditional and green parties have been leveled with respect to climate protection. We show that this partial convergence in party platforms can be explained by international climate agreements, effectively reducing greenhouse gas emissions. We set up a...

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Three Family Policies to Reconcile Fertility and Labor Supply

Fenge, Robert; Stadler, Lisa - CESifo - 2014

In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …

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Daddy Months

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2014

We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...

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Family Taxation, Fertility, and Horizontal Equity: A Political Economy Perspective

Balestrino, Alessandro - CESifo - 2012

whether i) the parents control their fertility or not, ii) they value their children or not. Second, it investigates the … all "relevant" senses identical should be treated identically); it turns out that under endogenous fertility, any winning … policy trivially satisfies horizontal equity, but if fertility is exogenous for some of (or all) the parents, horizontal …

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