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) emissions. This paper deals with emissions from oil combustion in transport, which accounts for about 40 percent of \co2 …\ emissions. In the benchmark specification, we find that six countries (accounting, in turn, for more than 40 percent of motor …-fuel GHG world emissions) would be undertaxing motor fuel. We evaluate the sensitivity of the results to the values of the …
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emission trading scheme that will allow the increasing rate of emissions to continue, while being a net cost to the Treasury … generation by 2020. A serious emissions reducing alternative would be to create a nationalised electricity sector with 100 …
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This theoretical note examines the usefulness of the Pigouvian tax policy in dealing with negative production externalities and in improving social welfare in a small developing economy. A two-sector, full-employment general equilibrium model with exogenous labour market imperfection is used for...
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This paper discusses first results of a comparative study of different environmental policy instruments. In a model with pollution as a side effect of consumption different environmental policies are studied. In simulations we observe the dynamic behavior of models with utility functions of the...
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This paper applies nonparametric estimators to examine the effect of regional quality of government on the environmental performance in the NUTS 1-regions in France, Germany and the UK. The most comprehensive existing regional measure on governance is used, gauging the partiality, corruption and...
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) emissions, starting on 1 January 2005. After the First Phase of the Scheme had been concluded on 31 December 2007, emissions … from the sectors covered by the European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) had actually increased. That is not enough to tell … track records for emissions), towards a partial auctioning system (whereby permits are initially given to the highest …
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We analyse the distributional impact of financing energy and environmental policies through additional charges on electricity consumption, focussing on the impact Ireland’s flat-rate Public Service Obligation (PSO) levy has on domestic consumers. Switching Ireland’s flate-rate charge to a...
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This paper examines the importance of induced technological change in considering the efficiency costs of environmental policy. In particular, in modeling an endogenous formation of energy-saving technology through a variety of intermediates, the paper studies the welfare effects of...
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Recent development trends of environmental taxation in Ukraine in context of the 2011 Tax Reform are analysed. Institutional, fiscal and security challenges for green taxes evolution during economic downturn and recession are summarized. Further modernization outlook for environment-oriented...
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Recent research has clearly demonstrated that economic development is closely related to environmental quality. In last two decades this relationship has been described by the Environmental Kuznets Curves that postulates an inverted U-shaped relationship between pollution and income. However,...
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