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In a group of countries like the European Union all countries seek to achieve their national CO2 emissions target by a joint emissions trading scheme covering some part of their economies (trading sector) and by a national emissions tax in the rest of their economies (nontrading sector)....
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We study the incidence of carbon-reduction and green-energy promotion policies in an open fossil-fuel importing general equilibrium economy. The focus is on mixed price-based or quantity-based policies. Instruments directed toward promoting green energy are shown to reduce also carbon emissions...
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We examine international cooperation on technological development as a supplement to, or an alternative to …, international cooperation on emission reductions. R&D should be increased beyond the non-cooperative level if (i) the technology … always exceeds the subsidy under no international R&D cooperation. Further, when the price of carbon is the same in the …
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We show that OPEC's market power contributes to global warming by enabling producers of relatively expensive and dirty … oil to start producing before OPEC reserves are depleted. We fully characterize the equilibrium of a cartel-fringe model …
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standard test levels. We find that OPEC exercised its market power during the sample period. Counterfactual experiments …
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nine major oil economies, six of which are current members of OPEC (Iran, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, and … OPEC members, which lie in the range of 45 to 125 years. For Indonesia, whose share of oil income in GDP has been declining …
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Natural resources account for 20% of world trade, and dominate the exports of many countries. Policy is used to manipulate both international and domestic prices of resources, yet this policy is largely outside the disciplines of the WTO. The instruments used include export taxes, price...
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standard test levels. We find that OPEC exercised its market power during the sample period. Counterfactual experiments …
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This paper highlights the potential for joint OECD (or non-OPEC) carbon taxes to reduce OPEC's monopoly rent and … provide benefit to non-OPEC countries provided jointly agreed trigger strategies are adhered to. In traditional economic … system. In this paper, we discuss a third benefit of carbon taxes: transferring rents from OPEC to the oil importing …
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In this paper we experimentally investigate whether partial coercion can in combination with conditional cooperation … finding is that in our setting conditional cooperation is not a strong enough force to increase contribution levels. Although … cooperation and puts some doubt on the idea that it is crucial in overcoming social dilemma problems …
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