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A cap on greenhouse gas emissions makes total emissions a fixed common-property resource. Population increases under a cap are therefore self-limiting: a population increase raises labor and reduces emissions per unit of labor, which lowers incomes and fertility. Because a marginal birth under a...
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This chapter applies recent research on environmental enforcement to a potential U.S. program to control greenhouse gases, especially through emission trading. Climate policies present the novel problem of integrating emissions reductions that are relatively easy to monitor (such as carbon...
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This article reviews and evaluates the nascent literature on the economics of climate engineering. The literature distinguishes between two broad types of climate engineering: solar radiation management and carbon dioxide removal. We review the science and engineering characteristics of these...
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Carbon dioxide emissions are a major force driving climate change. We construct scenarios of CO2 emissions from fossil energy until 2100 in Europe. Major innovations are first that economic growth is based on an endogenous economic growth model and second that we calibrate our model to...
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unilateral climate policies for the U.S. and EU economies. We conclude in these instances that complex optimal emission price …
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Firms sometimes comply with externality-correcting policies by gaming the measure that determines policy. We show theoretically that such gaming can benefit consumers, even when it induces them to make mistakes, because gaming leads to lower prices by reducing costs. We use our insights to...
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We collect extensive data on worldwide trade by transportation mode and use this to provide detailed comparisons of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with output versus international transportation of traded goods. International transport is responsible for 33 percent of world-wide...
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the EU. There is meanwhile a large quantitative literature on the economic effects of full integration of the associated … countries into the EU as well as on the Kyoto Protocol. However, there is a lack of quantitative research on the linkage of … trade and the environment in the context of the EU enlargement. In this paper we analyze the interactions of different …
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differences between Germany and other EU countries which affect the shadow price of carbon emissions. We calibrate a Melitz … how regulatory stringency evolved in the EU and Germany in terms of an implicit carbon price paid on emissions. This price … – both in Germany and other EU countries. The trend is more pronounced in Germany than in the rest of the EU. In …
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