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Climate mitigation policy in Denmark : a prototype for other countries
Batini, Nicoletta; Parry, Ian W. H.; Wingender, Philippe - 2021
Denmark has a highly ambitious goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 70 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. While … there is general agreement that carbon pricing should be the centerpiece of Denmark’s mitigation strategy, pricing needs to … strategy Denmark develops can be a good prototype for others to follow. This paper discusses mechanisms to scale up domestic …
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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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Green paradox and directed technical change : the effect of subsidies to clean R&D
Daubanes, Julien; Grimaud, André; Rougé, Luc - 2013
We borrow standard assumptions from the non-renewable-resource-taxation and from the directed-technical-change literatures, to take a full account of the incentives to perform R&D activities in a dirty-resource sector and in a clean-resource-substitute sector. We show that a gradual rise in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009769158
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Investment policy for time-inconsistent discounters
Harstad, Bård - 2013
This paper explores how a principal with time-inconsistent preferences invests optimally in technology or capital. If the current principal prefers her future self to save more, she can increase current investments complementary to future savings and decrease investments in the strategic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223357
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Carbon tariffs : an analysis of the trade, welfare and emission effects
Larch, Mario; Wanner, Joschka - 2014
Carbon tariffs are one prominently discussed environmental policy. The proponents stress the carbon tariffs' ability to mitigate the potential negative effect of environmental-friendly production on competitiveness, to avoid carbon leakage and to reduce world carbon emissions. We analyze the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235843
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Per-capita income as a determinant of international trade and environmental policies
Markusen, James R. - 2014
International trade policy analysis has tended to focus on the production side of general equilibrium, with policies such as a tariff or carbon tax affecting international and internal income distributions through a Heckscher-Ohlin nexus of factor intensities and factor endowments. Here I move...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010237189
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Trade liberalization and environmental taxation in federal systems
Fredriksson, Per; Matschke, Xenia - 2014
The literature on trade liberalization and environment has not considered federal structures. This paper shows how the design of environmental policy in a federal system has implications for the effects of trade reform. Trade liberalization leads to a decline in pollution taxes regardless of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260010
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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
Researchers have utilized the fact that many states have term limits (as opposed to being eligible for re-election) for governors to determine how changes in electoral incentives alter state regulatory agency behavior. This paper asks whether these impacts spill over into private sector...
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Resolving intergenerational conflict over the environment under the Pareto criterion
Andersen, Torben M.; Bhattacharya, Joydeep; Liu, Pan - 2016 - This Version: August 10, 2016
We describe a "business as usual" (BAU) economy in which pollution is a by-product of productive activity by the current generation but "damages" production for future generations. Over time, conditions in the BAU economy become dire: it gets increasingly polluted, consumption falls and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522140
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Allowing for household preferences in emission trading : a contribution to the climate policy debate
Ahlheim, Michael; Schneider, Friedrich - 2000
In the context of emission trading it seems to be taken as given that people's preferences can be ignored with respect to the whole process of fixing emission targets and allocating emission permits to polluters. With this paper we want to reopen the debate on how citizens can be involved in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781607