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and social welfare. We use an analytical model to assess the conditions under which such subsidies increase efficiency of … wholesale energy and capacity markets. While the subsidies, even when combined with energy consumption taxes, cannot achieve …We evaluate the effects of homogeneous subsidies granted for emission-free electricity generation on market outcomes …
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The paper analyzes the problem of achieving a target path of emission reductions in the electricity sector, using a scheme of tradable green certificates (TGC). There are two types of generation, renewable and fossil. The latter causes the emissions. The paper also examines effects from emission...
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Instruments chosen to pursue climate related targets are not always efficient. In this paper we consider an economy with three climate related targets for its electricity generation: a given share of “green” electricity, a given expansion of “green” electricity, and a given reduction of...
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-border pollution on Nash emission taxes, emission levels, and welfare. … from production is transmitted across borders. Governments in both countries impose emission taxes non …
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We consider the notion of welfare stigma à la Besley and Coate (1992b). This stigma is attributed to welfare claimants … by society when they are perceived as undeserving in the sense that they falsely claim to be eligible for welfare … benefits. However, due to imperfect information, this stigma may be extended, with some probability, to all welfare claimants …
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environmental taxes. We solve for the market equilibrium abstracting from public abatement and taxes and show that the ecological … compares the stationary distributions for environmental quality and individuals’ welfare arising under the unmanaged economy …
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Model uncertainty is inherent in the design of optimal environmental policy. We investigate the consequences in a simple linear model, where the aim of the policymaker is to stabilize the carbon content of the atmosphere. We study how decision-makers' concerns about robustness alter policy using...
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-congruence of objectives between firms and financiers on the one hand and social welfare maximization on the other. Our results … the probability of accident, and allowing the social welfare maximizing government to impose a lower liability [higher …
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We study the environmental and economic effects of public abatement in the presence of multiple stable steady-state ecological equilibria. Under shallow-lake dynamics (SLD), the isocline for the stock of pollution features two stable branches, a good and a bad one. Assuming that the ecology is...
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We analyse two mechanism designs for refunding emission payments to polluting firms: output-based refunding (OBR) and expenditure-based refunding (EBR). In both instruments, emission fees are returned to the polluting industry, typically making the policy more politically acceptable than a...
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