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I study the impact of subsidies for Plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEV) on carbon emissions. I show that subsidizing … the elimination of subsidies for PHEV would have led to a yearly reduction of 167,139 tons of carbon emissions which are … equivalent to the yearly carbon emissions 52,916 households emit due to energy consumption. …
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changes the private households-CO2 emissions, living standards, and post-tax income distribution. Our results show that the … tax implies a trade-off between the aim to reduce emissions and vertical equity, which refers to the idea that people with …
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Carbon emissions from German manufacturing have increased over the past decade, while carbon intensity (emissions per … Euro of gross output) has declined only slightly. We decompose changes in emissions between 2005 and 2017 into scale …
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the product-level, we decompose changes in carbon emissions between 2005 and 2017 into scale, composition (changes in the … carbon emissions is due to an increase in manufacturing’s production scale. Relative to the strong output growth, our …Drastic emission reductions are necessary to combat climate change. However, despite several climate policies, carbon …
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With a large representative survey (N=1,128), we document that consumers are very uncertain about the emissions … associated with various actions, which may affect their willingness to reduce their carbon footprint. We experimentally test two … trade-offs between personal gain and (uncertain) carbon impact. We find no evidence that uncertainty affects individual …
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A decade ago, the German Advisory Council to the Federal Government on Global Environmental Change (Wissenschaftlichen Beirats der Bundesregierung für Globale Umweltveränderungen - WBGU) published its main report. This attempt to take stock in 2011 made an impact and provided orientation on...
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We examine whether a disclosure mandate for greenhouse gas emissions creates stakeholder pressure for firms to … subsequently reduce their emissions. For UK-incorporated listed firms such a mandate was adopted in 2013. Using a difference …-in-differences design, we find that firms affected by the mandate reduced their emissions - depending on the specification - by an …
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modelEMuSeto analyze the effects of financing a labor tax reduction through higher consumption, energy or emissions taxation …
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implementation with the Indian electricity sector. Our main finding is that joint implementation offsets adverse effects of carbon … emission constraints on the German economy. JI significantly lowers the level of carbon taxes and thus reduces the total costs …
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