Cohesion policy in the European Union (EU) has been widely accepted as a tool to advance the catch-up process, i … success of structural funds in this regard. From a political economics perspective, EU structural funds and their instruments … of cohesion policy, but also EU agricultural policy, are interpreted as providing for a compensation for poorer member …

impacts on the EU. The methodological framework used is based on a multi-country and multi-sectoral computable general … equilibrium model for eleven EU-member states. The emphasis of the analysis lies on the institutional setting of a carbon dioxide … findings of the paper can be summarized as follows: 1) There is some potential for a double dividend in the EU. 2) Coordination …

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 …

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 …

Trading Scheme (EU ETS) was found to lead to substantial overcompensation, which is why some stakeholders recently have called …

amounts of "abundantʺ emission rights. Concerns on hot air motivated proposals for caps on emissions trading by the EU. These …