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Gathering support for green tax reform : evidence from German household surveys

Ploeg, Frederick van der; Rezai, Armon; Tovar, Miguel - 2021

Green tax reform is unpopular because, typically, the poor are hurt most by the higher prices of carbon-intensive commodities. If revenues from a carbon tax are recycled, it may be feasible to gain popular support for green tax reform. To investigate this, we estimate an EASI demand system from...

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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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Prices versus quantities reassessed

Karp, Larry S.; Traeger, Christian - 2018

"Prices versus quantities" (Weitzman 1974), a hugely influential paper, is widely cited (and taught) in current debates about the best policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The paper's criterion for ranking policies suggests that technological uncertainty favors taxes over cap and trade....

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Green havens and pollution havens

Poelhekke, Steven; Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2012

We test for pollution haven effects in outward foreign direct investment (FDI) for different sectors using a … country significantly attracts FDI. What is important for these pollution haven effects is not only regulation but also … enforcement of environmental policy. In contrast to earlier results, it is not only footloose industries that display pollution …

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Efficiency and environmental impacts of electricity restructuring on coal-fired power plants

Chan, H. Ron; Fell, Harrison; Lange, Ian; Li, Shanjun - 2013

We investigate the impacts of electricity market restructuring on fuel efficiency, utilization and, new to this area, cost of coal purchases among coal-fired power plants using a panel data set from 1991 to 2005. Our study focuses exclusively on coal-fired power plants and uses panel data...

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The environmental Kuznets curve and sustainability : a panel data analysis

Farhani, Sahbi; Mrizak, Sana; Chaibi, Anissa; Rault, … - 2014

In recent years, sustainability has represented one of the most important policy goals explored in the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. But related hypotheses, performance measures and results continue to present a challenge. The present paper contributes to this ongoing literature...

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Trade and the environment : new methods, measurements, and results

Cherniwchan, Jevan; Copeland, Brian Richard; Taylor, … - 2016

We review recent research linking international trade to the environment, with a focus on new results and methods. The review is given structure by a novel decomposition linking changes in emissions to changes in productive activity at the plant, firm, industry, and national levels. While some...

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Airline fuel usage and carbon emissions : determining factors

Brueckner, Jan K.; Abreu, Chrystyane - 2016

Using annual data on individual US airlines over the 1995-2015 period, this paper presents regression results relating an airline's total fuel usage to seven variables: the available ton miles of capacity (passengers plus freight and mail) provided by the airline; the average seat capacity of its...

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Identification and estimation of the environmental Kuznets curve : pairwise differencing to deal with nonlinearity and nonstationarity

Sen, Suphi; Melenberg, Bertrand; Vollebergh, Herman R. J. - 2016

We propose an estimation strategy that accounts for two major problems raised in the empirical literature testing for the prevalence of the inverted U-shaped relation between environmental degradation and economic activity, namely the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis. First, we use...

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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...

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