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The Economics of Climate Change Mitigation: How to Build the Necessary Global Action in a Cost-Effective Manner

Burniaux, Jean-Marc; Château, Jean; Dellink, Rob; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009

This paper examines the cost of a range of national, regional and global mitigation policies and the corresponding incentives for countries to participate in ambitious international mitigation actions. The paper illustrates the scope for available instruments to strengthen these incentives and...

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The Incentives to Participate in and the Stability of International Climate Coalitions: A Game-Theoretic Approach Using the WITCH Model

Bossetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Cian, Enrica De; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009

This paper uses WITCH, an integrated assessment model with a game-theoretic structure, to explore the prospects for, and the stability of broad coalitions to achieve ambitious climate change mitigation action. Only coalitions including all large emitting regions are found to be technically able...

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The Economics of Climate Change Mitigation: Policies and Options for the Future

Burniaux, Jean-Marc; Château, Jean; Duval, Romain; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008

Considering the costs and risks of inaction, ambitious action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is economically rational. However, success in abating world emissions will ultimately require a least-cost set of policy instruments that is applied as widely as possible across all emission sources...

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The Role of R&D and Technology Diffusion in Climate Change Mitigation: New Perspectives Using the WITCH Model

Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Duval, Romain; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009

This paper uses the WITCH model, a computable general equilibrium model with endogenous technological change, to explore the impact of various climate policies on energy technology choices and the costs of stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations. Current and future expected carbon prices...

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Choosing Fiscal Consolidation Instruments Compatible with Growth and Equity

Cournède, Boris; Goujard, Antoine; Pina, Álvaro; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

Despite sustained efforts made in recent years to rein in budget deficits, a majority of OECD countries still face substantial public finance consolidation needs moving forward, owing to the legacy of debt accumulation before the crisis, and to the role played by fiscal policy in rescuing the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276727

How to Achieve Growth- and Equity-friendly Fiscal Consolidation?: A Proposed Methodology for Instrument Choice with an Illustrative Application to OECD Countries

Cournède, Boris; Goujard, Antoine; Pina, Álvaro - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013

implications for near-term activity and long-term growth as well as for equity and the current account. This paper proposes a … of promoting near-term activity, longterm growth, equity, and global rebalancing. The proposed method is illustrated with …

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The Challenge of Restoring French Competitiveness

Kierzenkowski, Rafal - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009

decade, before the apparition of the current crisis. An analysis of the deterioration in competitiveness points to supply … offshoring the entire production process. Restoring competitiveness will require steps to strengthen the country’s growth … rapidly. The lack of competitiveness is more often a symptom than the cause of one or more underlying economic weaknesses …

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Russian Industrial Restructuring: Trends in Productivity, Competitiveness and Comparative Advantage

Ahrend, Rudiger - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2004

This article investigates issues related to industrial restructuring in Russia. Based on extensive sectoral data it examines, more particularly, levels and changes in labour productivity, unit labour costs and revealed comparative advantages for a large number of Russian industrial sectors. The...

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Austria's Deepening Economic Integration with Central and Eastern Europe

Bhattacharya, Rina - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007

, which has provided a significant boost to growth, productivity, competitiveness, profits and (more controversially …

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Russian Manufacturing and the Threat of ‘Dutch Disease': A Comparison of Competitiveness Developments in Russian and Ukrainian Industry

Ahrend, Rudiger; Rosa, Donato de; Tompson, William - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007

This paper examines the development of Russian industry in comparison with that of Ukrainian industry during 1995–2004 in an effort to ascertain to what extent, if any, Russian manufacturing showed signs of succumbing to ‘Dutch disease’. Ukraine and Russia began the market transition with...

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