greenhouse gas entitlements and to analyse the potential impacts of these rules EU-wide as well as on the level of member states … multi-sectoral computable general equilibrium model for fourteen EU-member states. The major finding of the paper is that … EU economies allows smaller economies not to make full use of the advantages they get through the ability …

the EU. There is meanwhile a large quantitative literature on the economic effects of full integration of the associated … countries into the EU as well as on the Kyoto Protocol. However, there is a lack of quantitative research on the linkage of … trade and the environment in the context of the EU enlargement. In this paper we analyze the interactions of different …

differences between Germany and other EU countries which affect the shadow price of carbon emissions. We calibrate a Melitz … how regulatory stringency evolved in the EU and Germany in terms of an implicit carbon price paid on emissions. This price … – both in Germany and other EU countries. The trend is more pronounced in Germany than in the rest of the EU. In …

magnitude and distribution of abatement costs across EU countries vis-à-vis a comprehensive EU emission trading regime. We find … permit trade enhances the secondary terms-of-trade benefits to EU member countries with low marginal abatement costs at the … expense of the other EU member states. …