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How to design a border adjustment for the European Union emissions trading system?

Monjon, Stéphanie; Quirion, Philippe - 2010

alongside with the EU ETS. Although more analysis is required on some issues, on others some design options seem clearly …, this obligation should apply when the exported product is registered at the EU border, and not after the end of the year as … products but mostly to basic products. -- Carbon Leakage ; Border Adjustment ; Border Tax Adjustment ; EU ETS ; Competitiveness …

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Price versus quantities versus indexed quantities

Branger, Frédéric; Quirion, Philippe - 2014

We develop a stochastic model to rank different policies (tax, fixed cap and relative cap) according to their expected total social costs. Three types of uncertainties are taken into account: uncertainty about abatement costs, business-as-usual (BAU) emissions and future economic output (the two...

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Changing the allocation rules in the EU ETS : impact on competitiveness and economic efficiency

Quirion, Philippe; Demailly, Damien - 2008

We assess five proposals for the future of the EU greenhouse gas Emission Trading Scheme (ETS): pure grandfathering … model of the EU 27 featuring three sectors covered by the EU ETS - cement, steel and electricity - plus the aluminium sector … over the decrease in EU emissions, ranges from around 8% under GF and AU to -2% under AU-BA and varies greatly among …

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How CO2 capture and storage can mitigate carbon leakage

Quirion, Philippe; Rozenberg, Julie; Sassi, Olivier; … - 2011

Most CO2 abatement policies reduce the demand for fossil fuels and therefore their price in international markets. If these policies are not global, this price decrease raises emissions in countries without CO2 abatement policies, generating "carbon leakage". On the other hand, if the countries...

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Reaping the carbon rent : abatement and overallocation profits in the European cement industry, insights from an LMDI decomposition analysis

Branger, Frédéric; Quirion, Philippe - 2014

We analyse variations of carbon emissions in the European cement industry from 1990 to 2011, at the European level (EU … effect. Using counterfactual scenarios, we estimate that the introduction of the EU ETS brought small but positive …

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Can uncertainty justify overlapping policy instruments to mitigate emissions?

Lecuyer, Oskar; Quirion, Philippe - 2012

; EU-ETS ; Renewable Energy ; Corner Solutions ; Nil CO2 Price …

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Carbon Leakage and Capactiy-Based Allocations - Is the EU Right?

Meunier, Guy; Ponssard, Jean-Pierre; Quirion, Philippe - 2021

based allocation (Australia, California, New Zealand) and capacity based allocation (EU). This paper characterizes the best … output and capacity based allocation is proved to be the optimal second best policy. The EU scheme for 2013-2020 is discussed …

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Implementing greenhouse gas trading in Europe : lessons from economic theory and international experiences

Boemare, Catherine; Quirion, Philippe - 2002

The European Commission (2001a) has recently presented a directive proposal to the Parliament and the Council in order to implement a tradable permits scheme. However, as stressed by the positive political economy, due to the influence of various interest groups, very few environmental policies...

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Complying with the Kyoto Protocol under uncertainty : taxes or tradable permits?

Quirion, Philippe - 2002

The Kyoto Protocol on climate change allocates tradable quotas to developed countries, but let them free to choose the means to respect their quota. There are good reasons for a country not to control its firms through internationally tradable permits. We thus compare a tax and purely domestic...

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