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strives to decrease reliance on imported oil and coal, while attempting to meet growing energy demand and maintain a certain …
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This paper analyzes the efficient taxation of oil and capital income in an oil-dependent infinite-lived economy facing … competition and tax restrictions. The optimal tax rates on oil and capital strictly depend on the international tax system … type of tax restrictions and the use of oil (as an input or a consumer good). Under the residence-based system, capital …
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China’s global quest for resources, in particular oil and natural gas, has received unprecedented worldwide attention … and scrutiny. This is partly because of China’s own high-profile, active energy diplomacy, its national oil companies …’ acquisitions in the key exporting regions of oil and natural gas and some debatable issues about the management and operation of …
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Increasing oil security represents one of the most important policy actions, especially within IEA countries. Short and … long term mechanisms could help such goal. On the short term side, revision of IEA emergency response oil stock system has … stocks, and an increase in the physical amount of oil stocks. Long term measures for enhancing oil supply security can be …
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The empirical literature is very far from any consensus about the appropriate model for oil price forecasting that … capture the dynamics of oil prices. Second, we analyse the effects of different data frequencies on the coefficient estimates …
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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...
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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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The relevance of oil in the world economy explains why considerable effort has been devoted to the development of … different types of econometric models for oil price forecasting. Several specifications have been proposed in the economic …” models). Others assign a key role to variables explaining the characteristics of the physical oil market (“structural” models …
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The aim of the paper is to present evidence that China and India are, and will remain, two very different actors in international negotiations to control global warming. We base our conclusions on historical data and on scenarios until 2050. The Business-as-Usual scenario (BaU) is compared to...
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Quantitative models for climate policy modeling differ in the production structure used and in the sizes of the elasticities of substitution. The empirical foundation for both is generally lacking. This paper estimates the parameters of two-level CES production functions with capital, labour and...
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