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effectiveness of fuel taxes to deliver climate and health benefits. …
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effects of natural disasters across different countries. A key implication of our findings is that climate change is likely to …
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Europe's 20-20-20 climate policy. The results show that the economic costs of implementing the policy are only moderate and …
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This paper provides an empirical test of the Coase Theorem. I analyze whether emissions are independent from allowance allocations in the electricity sector regulated under the EU's Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). Exogenous variation in levels of free allocation for power producing...
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This paper explores which climate-friendly projects could be part of the COVID-19 recovery while jump-starting the … development stages for climate-friendly production and enhanced sorting and recycling of steel, cement, aluminium and plastics are … of demand for climate-friendly and recycled materials. Based on these insights, the paper proposes elements of a policy …
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We evaluate German purchase subsidies for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) using data on new vehicle registrations in Germany during 2015-2022. We account for confounding time trends and interacting EU-level CO2 standards using neighboring countries...
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climate policy addressing global externalities. The debate is particularly salient in Europe, where the EU Emissions …
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Low and uncertain carbon prices are often stated as a major obstacle for industrial sector investments in technologies to deliver deep emissions reductions. Project-based carbon contracts underwritten by national governments could addressregulatory risk, lower financing costs and strengthen...
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Despite political activities to foster a low-carbon energy transition, Germany currently sees a considerable number of new coal power plants being added to its power mix. There are several possible drivers for this dash for coal, but it is widely accepted that windfall profits gained through...
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This paper tests the independence property under the Coase Theorem in a large multinational cap-and-trade scheme for greenhouse gas emissions, the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). I analyze whether emissions of power producers regulated under the EU ETS are independent from allowance...
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