This paper aims at characterizing water demand by Brazilian manufacturing plants located in São Paulo and at assessing … the potential impacts of environmental policies on industrial water use. We first show that the price elasticity of the … water demand, -1.0 on average, is high enough for a water charge to act as an effective policy tool for reducing water …

the European Union (EU). For this purpose we use linked applied general equilibrium models (AGE) for eleven EU member …, employment and inflation in member countries, and the cost and benefits of a cooperative approach to adhere to a EU target of … quantify the economic impact for the, EU by introducing a EU-wide tradable permit system, free of charge and based on the …

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 …

differentiated permit schemes, evaluating the U.S. Acid Rain and RECLAIM Program, and considering the setting in the EU-15 countries … addressed adequately by a differentiated bundle of countermeasures. The general economic impact of an EU-wide permit scheme is …