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world where carbon pricing is imperfect and the regulator seeks to limit emissions to a (cumulative) target. We use a global …, we show that small deviations from the second-best subsidy can lead to strong increases in emissions and consumption …
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its energy consumption and carbon emissions. Indeed, aligned with China’s grand experiment with low-carbon provinces and … market forces and opts for emissions trading, rather than carbon or environmental taxes at least initially, discusses the … five pilot trading schemes that have to comply with their emissions obligations by June 2014, and examines a wide range of …
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the externalities involved, as well as with where the source of cooperation lies in cooperative game theory. In either …
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Policies aimed at reducing emissions from fossil fuels may increase climate damages. This “Green Paradox” emerges if …
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China has gradually recognized that the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment cannot be sustained. It has to be changed. This article focuses on China’s efforts towards energy conservation and environmental quality. The article discusses a variety...
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This paper re-examines environmental regulation, under the assumption that pollution abatement technologies and services are provided by an imperfectly competitive environment industry. It is shown that each regulatory instrument (emission taxes and quotas; design standards; and voluntary...
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This paper deals with the welfare analysis of green tax reforms. The aims of this paper are to highlight misinterpretations of policy assessments in the double dividend literature, to specify which of the efficiency costs and benefits should be ascribed to each dividend, and then, to propose a...
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China has shifted control over resources and decision making to local governments and enterprises as the result of the economic reforms over the past three decades. This devolution of decision-making to local levels and enterprises has placed environmental stewardship in the hands of local...
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The Chinese leadership in November 2013 determined to embark upon a new wave of comprehensive reforms in China. This is clearly reflected by the key decision of the Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of Communist Party of China to assign the market a decisive role in allocating...
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Climate change economics mostly neglects sizeable interactions of carbon pricing with other fiscal policy instruments. Conversely, public finance typically overlooks the effects of future decarbonization efforts when devising instruments for the major goals of fiscal policy. We argue that such a...
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