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Mission Impossible!? On the Harmonization of National Allocation Plans under the EU Emissions Trading Directive

Böhringer, Christoph; Lange, Andreas - 2004

Starting in 2005, the EU will implement a CO2 emissions trading scheme. In this paper we show that the outspoken goals of economic efficiency and free allocation of allowances are incompatible with harmonized allocation rules. In general, the assignment of allowances is endogenous and differs...

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The EU decarbonisation roadmap 2050: What way to walk?

Hübler, Michael; Löschel, Andreas - 2013

We carry out a detailed CGE (Computable General Equilibrium) analysis of the EU Decarbonisation Roadmap 2050 on a macroeconomic and on a sectoral level. Herein, we study a Reference scenario that implements existing EU policies as well as 3 unilateral and 3 global climate action scenarios. We...

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Industry-level emission trading between power producers in the EU

Böhringer, Christoph - In: Applied economics 34 (2002) 4, pp. 523-533

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Efficiency Losses from Overlapping Economic Instruments in European Carbon Emissions Regulation

Böhringer, Christoph; Koschel, Henrike; Moslener, Ulf - 2006

Energy markets and energy-intensive industries in all EU member states – especially in Germany – are subject to a diverse set of policies related to climate change. We analyse the potential efficiency losses from simultaneous application of emission taxes and emissions trading in qualitative...

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Alleviating Adverse Implications of EU Climate Policy on Competitiveness: The Case for Border Tax Adjustments or the Clean Development Mechanism?

Anger, Niels; Alexeeva-Talebi, Victoria; Löschel, Andreas - 2008

Ambitious unilateral EU environmental policy has raised concerns about adverse competitiveness implications for European energy-intensive and export-oriented sectors. We analyze the economic and environmental implications of two different measures to address these concerns in the EU Emission...

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Understanding the competitiveness implications of future phases of EU ETS on the industrial sectors

Oberndorfer, Ulrich; Alexeeva-Talebi, Victoria; … - 2010

In making key decisions for the future phases of the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), policy makers need to fully understand the competitiveness implications of these decisions on industrial sectors. In this paper, we conduct an empirical analysis of cost pass-through ability of...

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Assessing Voluntary Commitments: Monitoring is Not Enough!

Böhringer, Christoph; Frondel, Manuel - 2002

This paper deals with a special type of voluntary approach to protect the environment, for example, that we would like to term voluntary commitment. Its major characteristic is that it represents a unilateral declaration without a decisively active role of regulators. In other words, voluntary...

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Die Ökologische Steuerreform in Deutschland: Ein umweltpolitisches Feigenblatt

Böhringer, Christoph; Schwager, Robert - 2002

werden. Dann wird Umweltschutz dort geleistet, wo er am wenigsten kostet. Aus theoretischer Sicht können Abweichungen von … erheblich ab. Über weitreichende Ausnahmen wird die ökologische Lenkungswirkung stark abgeschwächt. Umweltschutz wird damit … die geringe Zahlungsbereitschaft der Wähler für Umweltschutz und die starke sektorale Konzentration von Anpassungskosten …

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Energy Biased Technical Change: A CGE Analysis

Löschel, Andreas; Otto, Vincent M.; Dellink, Rob B. - 2005

This paper studies energy bias in technical change. For this purpose, we develop a computable general equilibrium model that builds on endogenous growth models. The model explicitly captures links between energy, the rate and direction of technical change, and the economy. We derive the...

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Efficiency, Compensation, and Discrimination: What is at Stake When Implementing the EU Emissions Trading Scheme?

Böhringer, Christoph; Lange, Andreas - 2003

In 2005, an EU-wide emissions trading scheme covering major CO2 producing sites shall come into power. The key objective of the trading scheme is to promote cost-efficiency of carbon reduction within the EU. We identify policy-relevant tradeoffs between overall efficiency, compensation and...

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