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Unilateral Climate Policy, Asymmetric Backstop Adoption, and Carbon Leakage in a Two-Region Hotelling Model
van der Werf, Edwin - 2015
We study backstop adoption and carbon dioxide emission paths in a two-region model with unilateral climate policy and non-renewable resource consumption. The regions have an equal endowment of the internationally tradable resource and a backstop technology. We first study the case of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039172
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Migration and Climate Change in Rural Africa
Cattaneo, Cristina; Massetti, Emanuele - CESifo - 2015
We analyse whether migration is an adaptation that households employ to cope with climate in Ghana and Nigeria. If … migration is part of the present adaptation portfolio of households in developing countries, it is reasonable to expect that it … generated by General Circulation model reveal that, ceteris paribus, migration may decline in Ghana and in Nigeria. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185619
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Total Costs and Budgetary Effects of Adaptation to Climate Change: An Assessment for the European Union
Osberghaus, Daniel; Reif, Christiane - CESifo - 2010
Adaptation to climate change is gaining increasing relevance in the public debate of climate policy. However, detailed and regionalised cost estimates as a basis for cost-benefit-analyses are rare. We compose available cost estimates for adaptation in Europe, and in particular Germany, Finland...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511596
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Global Warming and Extreme Events: Rethinking the Timing and Intensity of Environmental Policy
Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael - CESifo - 2010
The possibility of low-probability extreme events has reignited the debate over the optimal intensity and timing of climate policy. In this paper we therefore contribute to the literature by assessing the implications of low-probability extreme events on environmental policy in a continuous-time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511618
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Negative Leakage
Fullerton, Don; Karney, Dan; Baylis, Kathy - CESifo - 2011
We build a simple analytical general equilibrium model and linearize it, to find a closed-from expression for the effect of a small change in carbon tax on leakage – the increase in emissions elsewhere. The model has two goods produced in two sectors or regions. Many identical consumers buy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008872220
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Climate Effects of Carbon Taxes, Taking into Account Possible Other Future Climate Measures
Habermacher, Florian; Kirchgässner, Gebhard - CESifo - 2011
The increase of fuel extraction costs as well as of temperature will make it likely that in the medium-term future technological or political measures against global warming may be implemented. In assessments of a current climate policy the possibility of medium-term future developments like...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008914276
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The Supply Side of CO2 with Country Heterogeneity
Hoel, Michael - CESifo - 2011
Several recent articles have analyzed climate policy giving explicit attention to the non-renewable character of carbon resources. In most of this literature the economy is treated as a single unit, which in the context of climate policy seems reasonable to interpret as the whole world. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008914283
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Learning or Lock-in: Optimal Technology Policies to Support Mitigation
Kalkuhl, Matthias; Edenhofer, Ottmar; Lessmann, Kai - CESifo - 2011
We investigate conditions that aggravate market failures in energy innovations, and suggest optimal policy instruments to address them. Using an intertemporal general equilibrium model we show that “small” market imperfections may trigger a several decades lasting dominance of an incumbent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020098
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Market Effects of Voluntary Climate Action by Firms: Evidence from the Chicago Climate Exchange
Gans, Will; Hintermann, Beat - CESifo - 2011
Why do for-profit firms take voluntary steps to improve the environment? Brand appeal to green consumers or investors, the ability to influence or avoid regulation, or the experience gained for future regulation, have all been suggested as possible reasons. The empirical evidence is decidedly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021238
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Unintended Detrimental Effects of Environmental Policy: The Green Paradox and Beyond
Werf, Edwin van der; Maria, Corrado Di - CESifo - 2011
Well-intended policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions may have unintended undesirable consequences. Recently, a large literature has emerged showing under what conditions this so-called ‘Green Paradox’ may occur. We review this literature and identify the key mechanisms behind...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009024839