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Carbon, Trade Policy, and Carbon Free Trade Areas
Dong, Yan - 2008
, forms and possible impacts of each variant. We also speculate as to how the world trading system may evolve in the next few …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464216
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How Large are the Impacts of Carbon Motivated Border Tax Adjustments
Dong, Yan - 2009
increases, and other country's production decreases compared with the case of no BTAs. With the contraction of world trade flows … caused by the financial crisis, carbon motivated BTAs offer a prospect of a compounding effect in a world which is going …This paper discusses the size of impact of carbon motivated border tax adjustments on world trade. We report numerical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463037
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Think Globally, Act Globally : Opportunities to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Glennerster, Rachel; Jayachandran, Seema - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are a global public good, which makes it efficient to act globally when addressing this challenge. We lay out several reasons that high-income countries seeking to mitigate climate change might have greater impact if they invest their resources in...
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Global Pricing of Carbon-Transition Risk
Bolton, Patrick; Kacperczyk, Marcin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Companies are exposed to carbon-transition risk as the global economy transitions away from fossil fuels to renewable energy. We estimate the market-based premium associated with this transition risk at the firm level in a cross-section of over 14,400 firms in 77 countries. We find a widespread...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482725
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The Economics of Carbon Offsets
Bushnell, James B. - 2010
Although international programs for carbon offsets play an important role in current and prospective climate-change policy, they continue to be very controversial. Asymmetric information creates several incentive problems, include adverse selection and moral hazard, in offset markets. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462352
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Belts and Suspenders : Interactions Among Climate Policy Regulations
Levinson, Arik - 2010
With few exceptions, economic analyses of "cap-and-trade" permit trading mechanisms for climate change mitigation have been based on first-best scenarios without pre-existing distortions or regulations. The reason is obvious: interactions between permit trading and other regulations will be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462547
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Global Climate Policy Architecture and Political Feasibility : Specific Formulas and Emission Targets to Attain 460 ppm CO2 Concentrations
Bosetti, Valentina - 2009
In pursuit of more aggressive environmental goals, we now advance the dates at which some countries are asked to begin cutting below BAU, within our framework. We also tinker with the values for the parameters in the formulas. The resulting target paths for emissions are run through the WITCH...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463133
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Designing Climate Mitigation Policy
Aldy, Joseph E. - 2009
This paper provides an exhaustive review of critical issues in the design of climate mitigation policy by pulling together key findings and controversies from diverse literatures on mitigation costs, damage valuation, policy instrument choice, technological innovation, and international climate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463627
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Carbon Motivated Regional Trade Arrangements : Analytics and Simulations
Dong, Yan - 2009
This paper presents both analytics and numerical simulation results relevant to proposals for carbon motivated regional trade agreements summarized in Dong & Whalley(2008). Unlike traditional regional trade agreements, by lowing tariffs on participant's low carbon emission goods and setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463767
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Linkage of Tradable Permit Systems in International Climate Policy Architecture
Jaffe, Judson - 2008
greenhouse gases throughout the industrialized world, and the Clean Development Mechanism -- an international emission …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464215