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political debate about unilateral climate policies. Tariffs on the carbon embodied in imported goods from countries without … introduction of carbon tariffs can do more harm than good to domestic EITE industries. Two determinants drive the sign and … imported in intermediate inputs, industries might suffer from carbon tariffs. Secondly, the share of domestic output that is …
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climate policy community. Key remaining parties to the Agreement such as Europe and China might call for carbon tariffs on US … advocates of carbon tariffs: Given the possibility of retaliatory tariffs across all imported goods, carbon tariffs do not …
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to use contingent tariffs to control import surges of food commodities and/or downward spikes in their border prices. The …
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regard to their efficiency, effectivity, and robustness. Technology quotas and feed-in-tariffs turn out to be only … subsidy ; renewable portfolio standard ; feed-in-tariffs ; carbon pricing …
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.g. most favored nation tariffs) and on the exporter side (e.g. export subsidies), even in the presence of exporter and …-supply elasticity and of the import-demand elasticity. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our techniques in the case of MFN tariffs and …
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In this paper we examine the empirical relevance of three prominent endogenous protection models. Is protection for sale, or do altruistic policy makers worry about political support? We find strong evidence that protection is indeed for sale. The important new result is, however, that not only...
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Numerical simulation exercises to analyze the impacts of potential changes in non-tariff policies commonly use ad valorem equivalent tariff treatment even though estimated impacts using explicit model representation and ad valorem equivalent treatments will differ. The difficulty for modellers...
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This paper presents a new methodology to detect corruption in customs and applies it to Madagascar’s main port. Manipulation of assignment of import declarations to inspectors is identified by measuring deviations from random assignment prescribed by official rules. Deviant declarations are...
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-country, dynamic general equilibrium model with financial frictions, climate policies, including carbon tariffs, and macroprudential … back. We also examine more ambitious climate architectures involving carbon tariffs or a global carbon price. We find that …
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Policies of lowering carbon demand may aggravate rather than alleviate climate change (green paradox). In a two-period three-country general equilibrium model with finite endowment of fossil fuel one country enforces an emissions cap in the first or second period. When that cap is tightened the...
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