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Environmental policy and the economic downturn

Bowen, Alex; Stern, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

This paper considers how environmental policies should respond to macroeconomic downturns. It first explores the implications of the global economic downturn of 2008-09 for environmental policies, focusing in particular on the example of action against climate change. The arguments for and...

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The effects and side-effects of the EU emissions trading scheme

Laing, Timothy; Sato, Misato; Grubb, Michael; Comberti, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

As many countries, regions, cities, and states implement emissions trading policies to limit CO2 emissions, they turn to the European Union's experience with its emissions trading scheme since 2005. As a prominent example of a regional carbon pricing policy, it has attracted significant...

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The impact of a carbon tax on manufacturing: evidence from microdata

Martin, Ralf; de Preux, Laure B.; Wagner, Ulrich J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

negative impact on energy intensity and electricity use. No statistically significant impacts are found for employment, revenue …

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Industry compensation under relocation risk: a firm-level analysis of the EU emissions trading scheme

Martin, Ralf; Muuls, Mirabelle; de Preux, Laure B.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

When regulated firms are offered compensation to prevent them from relocating, efficiency requires that payments be distributed across firms so as to equalize marginal relocation probabilities, weighted by the damage caused by relocation. We formalize this fundamental economic logic and apply it...

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The impact of ‘clean innovation’ on economic growth: evidence from the transport and energy industries

Martin, Ralf; Vaitilingam, Romesh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Policies on climate change that encourage 'clean innovation' while displacing 'dirty innovation' could have a positive impact on short-term economic growth while avoiding the potentially disastrous reduction in GDP that could result from climate change over the longer term.

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Invention and transfer of climate change mitigation technologies on a global scale: a study drawing on patent data

Dechezlepretre, Antoine; Glachant, Matthieu; Hascic, Ivan; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

a global scale. Statistics suggest that innovation has mostly been driven by energy prices until 1990. Since then …

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Powering up: Latin America's energy challenges: introduction: beyond the national: regional challenges in Latin America’s energy sector

Harmer, Tanya; Burton, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

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Scarce or abundant?: the economics of natural resource availability

Neumayer, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000

Most natural resources that are used in production are non-renewable. When they become depleted they are lost for future use. Does it follow that the limited availability of natural resources will at some time in the future constrain economic growth as many environmentalists believe? While...

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Growth dynamics of energy technologies: using historical patterns to validate low carbon scenarios

Wilson, Charlie - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

Historical growth dynamics of energy technologies reveal a consistent relationship between the extent to which a … consistent across both supply-side and demand-side technologies, and both old and new energy technologies. Consequently, it can … be used as a means of validating future scenarios of energy technology growth under carbon constraints. This validation …

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Modern management: good for the environment or just hot air?

Bloom, Nick; Genakos, Christos; Martin, Ralf; Sadun, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that … establishments in better managed firms are significantly less energy intensive. They use less energy per unit of output, and also in … practices is associated with a 17.4% reduction in energy intensity. This negative relationship is robust to a variety of …

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