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Carbon Prices are Redundant in the 2030 EU Climate and Energy Policy Package

Aune, Finn Roar - 2019

In June 2018, an agreement between key EU institutions – the Commission, the European Parliament, and the European Council – was reached after a long-lasting discourse over the 2030 EU climate and energy policy package. This paper offers a comprehensive assessment of the EU package, with its...

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Is Western European Agriculture Resilient to High Temperatures?

Massetti, Emanuele - 2019

We estimate a Ricardian model of Western European agricultural land values using farm-level data. We model the effect of temperature on land values using a flexible specification of daily mean temperature to test if there are temperature threshold effects. Results indicate that there are no...

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Optimal Carbon Pricing in General Equilibrium : Temperature Caps and Stranded Assets in an Extended Annual DSGE Model

van der Ploeg, Rick; Rezai, Armon - 2021

The general equilibrium model developed by Golosov et al. (2014), GHKT for short, is modified to allow for additional negative impacts of global warming on utility and productivity growth, mean reversion in the ratio of climate damages to production, labour-augmenting technical progress, and...

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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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Climate Mitigation Policy in Denmark : A Prototype for Other Countries

Batini, Nicoletta; Parry, Ian; Wingender, Philippe - 2021

Denmark has a highly ambitious goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 70 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. While there is general agreement that carbon pricing should be the centerpiece of Denmark’s mitigation strategy, pricing needs to be effective, address equity and leakage concerns,...

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Europe Beyond Coal - An Economic and Climate Impact Assessment

Boehringer, Christoph - 2020

Several European countries have decided to phase out coal power generation. Emissions from electricity generation are already regulated by the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), and in some countries like Germany the phaseout of coal will be accompanied with cancellation of emissions allowances....

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Effects of Carbon Pricing and Other Climate Policies on CO 2 Emissions

Kohlscheen, Emanuel; Moessner, Richhild; Takats, Elod - 2021

We provide ex-post empirical analysis of the effects of climate policies on carbon dioxide emissions at the aggregate national level. Our results are based on a comprehensive database of 121 countries. As climate policies we examine carbon taxes and emissions trading systems (ETS), as well as...

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The Green Industrial Revolution – Investment Pathways to Decarbonize the Industrial Sector in Europe

Zimmer, Markus; Hoffmann, Patrick - 2023

The industrial sector is responsible for roughly one quarter of global greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. To align sector pathway developments with overarching net-zero transition goals in different industries, governments are required to understand sectoral reduction potentials to efficiently...

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An Economic Analysis of Blockchains

Waelbroeck, Patrick - 2018

The blockchain is a technology that goes beyond timestamping, bitcoin and secure financial transactions. The … development of an ecosystem around smart connected objects will probably not happen without the blockchain (in one form or another …). The blockchain opens the door to the liquification of the physical world, to the economy of real-time micro …

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Rise of the Central Bank Digital Currencies: Drivers, Approaches and Technologies

Auer, Raphael A.; Cornelli, Giulio; Frost, Jon - 2020

Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are receiving more attention than ever before. Yet the motivations for issuance vary across countries, as do the policy approaches and technical designs. We investigate the economic and institutional drivers of CBDC development and take stock of design...

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