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Carbon policy and the emissions implications of electric vehicles

Gillingham, Kenneth; Ovaere, Marten; Weber, Stephanie - 2021

Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? We match data on notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical city data. The production and...

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Will the centralisation of carbon pricing revenue in the EU lead to laxer climate policy?

Fuest, Clemens; Meier, Volker - 2021

We analyse the economic impact of using carbon pricing revenue to fund the EU budget. Such a reform would redistribute … implemented, the low carbon countries will prefer a lower carbon price, i.e. laxer climate policy at the EU level, than before the … reform. For high carbon countries the opposite is true. As a result, EU climate policy becomes less ambitious and less …

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Unilateral CO2 reduction policy with more than one carbon energy source

Daubanes, Julien Xavier; Henriet, Fanny; Schubert, Katheline - 2020

We examine an open economy's strategy to reduce its carbon emissions by replacing its consumption of coal - very carbon intensive - with gas - less so. Unlike the standard theoretical approach to carbon leakage, we show that unilateral CO2 reduction policies generate a higher leakage rate in the...

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More gas, less coal, and less CO2? : unilateral CO2 reduction policy with more than one carbon energy source

Daubanes, Julien X.; Henriet, Fanny; Schubert, Katheline - 2017

We examine an open economy's strategy to reduce its carbon emissions by replacing its consumption of coal - very carbon intensive - with gas - less so. Unlike the standard analysis of carbon leakage, unilateral carbon-reduction policies with more than one carbon energy source may turn...

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Can degrowth overcome the leakage problem of unilateral climate policy?

Larch, Mario; Löning, Markus; Wanner, Joschka - 2017

Unilateral climate policy suffers from carbon leakage, i.e. the (partial) offset of the initial emission reduction by increases in other countries. Different than most typically discussed climate policies, degrowth not only aims at reducing the fossil fuel use in an economy, but rather at a...

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The political consequences of green policies : evidence from Italy

Colantone, Italo; Lonardo, Livio Di; Margalit, Yotam; … - 2022

For many governments enacting green policies is a priority, but these often entail substantial and uneven costs on citizens. How does the introduction of green policies affect voting? We study this question in the context of a major ban on polluting cars introduced in Milan. The policy was...

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Smart cap

Karp, Larry S.; Traeger, Christian - 2021

We introduce a "smart" cap and trade system that eliminates the welfare costs of asymmetric information (“uncertainty”). This cap responds endogenously to technology or macroeconomic shocks, relying on the market price of certificates to aggregate information. It allows policy makers to...

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Reconsidering climate mitigation policy in the UK

Arregui, Nicolas; Parry, Ian W. H. - 2021

The UK has pledged to cut greenhouse gases 68 percent below 1990 levels by 2030, to be emissions neutral by 2050, and to phase out internal combustion engine vehicles by 2030. Much progress has been made, but fully achieving these ambitious objectives with the current policy framework will be...

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Screening green innovation through carbon pricing

Ahlvik, Lassi; Van den Bijgaart, I. M. - 2022

Green innovation is essential for climate change mitigation, but not all innovative projects deliver equal social value. We consider innovator heterogeneity in a model where the policy maker cannot observe innovation quality and directly subsidize the socially most valuable green innovations. We...

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Electoral incentives and firm behavior : evidence from U.S. power plant pollution abatement

Doyle, Matthew; Di Maria, Corrado; Lange, Ian; … - 2016

evidence that power plants spend less in water pollution abatement if the governor of the state where the plant is located is a …

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