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The role of fiscal instruments in environmental policy
Kosonen, Katri; Nicodème, Gae͏̈tan J.A. - 2009
Environmental protection is one of Europe's key values. The EU has set clear policy objectives to achieve its … environmental goals. The EU has favoured market-based instruments, among which fiscal instruments to tackle the climate change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003871920
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Assessing the impact of environmental regulation on industrial water use : evidence from Brazil
Féres, José; Reynaud, Arnaud - 2015
This paper aims at characterizing water demand by Brazilian manufacturing plants located in São Paulo and at assessing … the potential impacts of environmental policies on industrial water use. We first show that the price elasticity of the … water demand, -1.0 on average, is high enough for a water charge to act as an effective policy tool for reducing water …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012023821
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Fiscal and regulatory instruments for clean technology development in the European Union
Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Popp, David - 2015
This policy note investigates whether the current level of public support to environment-friendly technologies is sufficient to allow European countries to respond to the multiple challenges posed by climate change and other environmental concerns. We first lay out the justifications for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519926
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Effects of information-based regulation on financial outcomes : evidence from the European Union's public emission registry
Earnhart, Dietrich; Germeshausen, Robert; Graevenitz, … - 2022
Information-based policies play an important role in environmental protection efforts around the world. These policies use information provision and/or disclosure to shape behavior in order to meet the policy objective; for example, mandatory information disclosure requires firms to measure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013202842
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Endogenous emission caps always induce a green paradox
Gerlagh, Reyer; Heijmans, Roweno; Rosendahl, Knut Einar - 2019
green paradox for a general model and then apply it to the details of EU ETS. In 2018, new rules for a Market Stability … model disciplined on the price rise in the EU ETS that followed the introduction of the MSR. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012105543
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Environmental policy and directed technological change : evidence from the European carbon market
Calel, Raphael; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009746111
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Climate policies : a burden or a gain?
Bréchet, Thierry; Tulkens, Henry - 2013
That climate policies are costly is evident and therefore often creates major fears. But the alternative (no action) also has a cost. Mitigation costs and damages incurred depend on what the climate policies are; moreover, they are substitutes. This brings climate policies naturally in the realm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009722000
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Oil trade and climate policy : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Energy and Climate Economics, October 2014
Curuk, Malik; Sen, Suphi - 2015
It has been argued that a depletable resource owner might optimally increase near-term supply in response to environmental policies promoting the development of alternative resources, which might render climate policy ineffective or even counterproductive. This paper empirically confirms this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498602
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Pricing carbon
Drupp, Moritz A.; Nesje, Frikk; Schmidt, Robert C. - 2022
We study the variation of global and unilateral carbon price recommendations and their determinants. To this end, we provide survey evidence on carbon pricing from more than 400 experts across almost 40 countries. We quantify the extent of (dis-)agreement and reveal that a majority of experts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012888461
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Effects of carbon pricing and other climate policies on CO2 emissions
Kohlscheen, Emanuel; Moessner, Richhild; Takáts, Előd - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012643539