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The Italian Position in the Energy and Climate Change Negotiations
Viviani, Carlo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Climate change, security and cost of energy supplies, and the competitiveness of firms and economies have been focal points of the general political and economic policy debate in recent years. This article examines the choices in this field made at global level with the Kyoto Protocol and in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008835357
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Australia's Carbon Tax: A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing?
Spash, Clive L.; Lo, Alex Y. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The Australian Government has produced a CO2-equivalent tax proposal with a difference, it is a short prelude to an emission trading scheme that will allow the increasing rate of emissions to continue, while being a net cost to the Treasury. That cost extends to allowing major emitters to make...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322896
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The Taxation of Motor Fuel: International Comparison
Eduardo, Ley; Jessica, Boccardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We apply the Parry-Small (2005) framework to asses whether the level taxation of motor fuel is broadly appropriate in a group of countries (OECD, BRICs and South Africa) accounting for more than 80 percent of world greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This paper deals with emissions from oil...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490493
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Individual Adaptation to Climate Change: The Role of Information and Perceived Risk
Osberghaus, Daniel; Finkel, Elyssa; Pohl, Max - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
-focused information about the effects of climate change influences the personal perceived risk (PPR) of individual people. Based on a … information on climate change effects that is more personally relevant to the individual and is concerned with his local … comparably low severity of predicted effects in the study region. Interestingly, providing any kind of information, irrespective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693554
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A Theory of Political Accountability and Journalism
Bruns, Christian; Himmler, Oliver - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
the common Downsian reasoning, rational voters should not be willing to pay for information out of purely instrumental … does not apply when a group of voters shares a common goal such as accountability and information is delivered via mass … for the provision of instrumental information in these scenarios. Our model thus reconciles the rational voter approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108800
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The single-mindedness of labor unions when transfers are not Lump-Sum
canegrati, emanuele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper I analyse a labour market where the wage is endogenously determined according to an Efficient Bargaining process between a firm and a labour union whose members are partitioned into two social groups: the old and the young. Furthermore, I exploit the Single-Mindedness theory, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789327
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Environmental policy in dynamic models: The impact of the elasticity of substitution if consumers pollute
Barthel, Jens - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837226
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Negative Production Externalities and Efficacy of the Pigouvian Tax Policy in a Developing Economy: A Pure Economic Argument
Chaudhuri, Sarbajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212786
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Environmental performance and quality of governance: A non-parametric analysis of the NUTS 1-regions in France, Germany and the UK
Halkos, George; Sundström, Aksel; Tzeremes, Nickolaos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258406
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Europe 2020: an Alternative Proposal
Stagnaro, Carlo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The European Union has unilaterally decided to implement a cap & trade scheme to contain greenhouse gases (GHGs) 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258601