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Pass-through of CO2 Emission Costs to Hourly Electricity Prices in Germany

Hintermann, Beat - 2014

I estimate the level of emissions cost pass-through to hourly wholesale electricity prices in Germany, based on spot … generation, and intersecting it with residual demand for fossil-based electricity for every hour. Determining the marginal … electricity prices by at least 84 %, with a central range of 98 %-104 % for different load periods. My results suggest that there …

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Carbon Policy and the Emissions Implications of Electric Vehicles

Gillingham, Kenneth; Ovaere, Marten; Weber, Stephanie - 2021

complementarity could exist between carbon pricing and high electric vehicle adoption. We analyze electricity generation in recent …

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Healthy Climate, Healthy Bodies : Optimal Fuel Taxation and Physical Activity

den Bijgaart, Inge van; Klenert, David; Mattauch, Linus; … - 2021

Transport has significant externalities including carbon emissions and air pollution. Public health research has identified additional social gains from active travel, due to health benefits of physical exercise. Per mile, these benefits greatly exceed the external costs from car use. We...

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France's environmental policies: Internalising global and local externalities

Egert, Balazs - 2012

by the Constitutional Council; the challenges relating to renewable and nuclear electricity generation; the ways to …

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Electoral Incentives and Firm Behavior: Evidence from U.S. Power Plant Pollution Abatement

Doyle, Matthew; Di Maria, Corrado; Lange, Ian A.; … - 2016

Researchers have utilized the fact that many states have term limits (as opposed to being eligible for re-election) for governors to determine how changes in electoral incentives alter state regulatory agency behavior. This paper asks whether these impacts spill over into private sector...

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Decentralized Environmental Regulations and Plant-Level Productivity

Ghosal, Vivek - 2018

Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to efficiency change and technical change. The data we use is from Sweden and for their pulp and paper industry, which is heavily regulated due to its historically large contribution...

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Spotlight on Spatial Environmental Policy Spillovers : An Econometric Analysis of Wastewater Treatment in Mexican Municipalities

Hecker, Lutz Philip - 2018

The objective of this paper is to analyze whether successful environmental policies spread across geographical space. We examine the existence of such environmental spatial policy spillovers using the example of wastewater treatment in Mexican municipalities. Untreated wastewater is a key...

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Economic Geography and the Efficiency of Environmental Regulation

Hollingsworth, Alex; Jaworski, Taylor; Kitchens, Carl; … - 2022

We develop a spatial equilibrium model to evaluate the efficiency and distributional impacts of the leading air quality regulation in the United States: the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). We link our economic model to an integrated assessment model for air pollutants which...

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Market effects of voluntary climate action by firms: Evidence from the Chicago Climate Exchange

Gans, Will; Hintermann, Beat - 2011

Why do for-profit firms take voluntary steps to improve the environment? Brand appeal to green consumers or investors, the ability to influence or avoid regulation, or the experience gained for future regulation, have all been suggested as possible reasons. The empirical evidence is decidedly...

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Will the Centralisation of Carbon Pricing Revenue in the EU Lead to Laxer Climate Policy?

Fuest, Clemens; Meier, Volker - 2021

We analyse the economic impact of using carbon pricing revenue to fund the EU budget. Such a reform would redistribute from countries with above average carbon intensive production to less carbon intensive countries. Once the reform is implemented, the low carbon countries will prefer a lower...

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