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other climate policies, on carbon dioxide emissions at the aggregate national level. The paper uses cross-country dynamic … of around 0.9% in CO2 emissions per capita in the short run, and of around 3.7% in the long run. An increase by one index … point of the green R&D expenditure support policy index leads to a significant reduction of around 0.4% in CO2 emissions per …
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needed to support the social optimum. We then analyze the effects of these taxes on urban spatial structure. Emissions are … heights, generating a more-compact city with a lower level of emissions per capita. …
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(RPS) on electricity price, CO2 emissions, fossil fuel electricity generation, and two kinds of renewable generation. We …
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We provide ex-post empirical analysis of the effects of climate policies on carbon dioxide emissions at the aggregate … and emissions trading systems (ETS), as well as the overall stringency of climate policies. We use dynamic panel … mix. We find that higher carbon taxes and prices of permits in ETS reduce carbon emissions. An increase in carbon taxes by …
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vehicle registration data with data on local air pollutant emissions. For identification we exploit cross-sectional variation …
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Limiting global warming in line with the goals in the Paris Agreement will require substantial technological and behavioural transformations. This challenge drives many of the current modelling trends. This paper undertakes a review of 17 state-of-the-art recursive-dynamic computable general...
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This paper discusses techniques for measuring the incidence of carbon taxes across different household income groups and provides some cross-country estimates of these effects for selected advanced countries. The general message of this paper is that distributional concerns should not...
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Many decisions in politics and business are made by teams rather than by single individuals. In contrast, economic models typically assume an individual rational decision maker. A rapidly growing body of (experimental) literature investigates team decisions in different settings. We study team...
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If a coalition of countries implements climate policies, nonparticipants tend to consume more, pollute more, and invest too little in renewable energy sources. In response, the coalition's equilibrium policy distorts trade and it is not time consistent. By adding a market for the right to...
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A well-known result about market power in emission permit markets is that efficiency can be achieved by full free allocation to the dominant firm. I show that this result breaks down when taking the interaction between input and output markets into account, even if the firm perceives market...
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