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climate policy addressing global externalities. The debate is particularly salient in Europe, where the EU Emissions … TradingSystem (EU ETS) covers emissions of many traded sectors. In a first step, we review how carbon leakage and the pollution … introduced by the EU ETS has caused carbon leakage in European manufacturing. We compute trade flows in embodied carbon and value …
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This paper empirically investigates the effect of the European Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) on cross … in areas outside the EU ETS. To study this problem, we employ a model of the firm’s investment decision in conjunction … sensitivity to carbon pricing from observed pollution data. This allows to identify the effect of the EU ETS on international …
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to analyse the implications for the European Union (EU) of including non-CO2 GHG emissions in its cap and trade system …
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In 2005, the EU introduced an emissions trading system in order to pursue its Kyoto obligations. This instrument gives … on the national allocation plans as submitted to and approved by the EU. We find that, if the NAP is combined with a …
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This chapter applies recent research on environmental enforcement to a potential U.S. program to control greenhouse gases, especially through emission trading. Climate policies present the novel problem of integrating emissions reductions that are relatively easy to monitor (such as carbon...
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This paper presents both analytics and numerical simulation results relevant to proposals for carbon motivated regional trade agreements summarized in Dong & Whalley(2008). Unlike traditional regional trade agreements, by lowing tariffs on participant's low carbon emission goods and setting...
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might be considered to reform the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). In this paper, we have decided to focus on three … for the carbon costs incurred on basic materials embodied in products. Finally, under the third model, the EU ETS would be … complemented with a climate contribution charged for materials sold in the European Union (EU) at the product benchmark level …
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, both in the EU and beyond. Second, the paper presents an analysis of the provisions in WTO law that would apply to product …
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Carbon pricing decisions by governments are prone to time-inconsistency, which causes the private sector to underinvest in emission-reducing technologies. We show that incentives for decarbonization can be improved if complementing carbon pricing with carbon contracts for differences, where the...
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In this paper we show that carbon pricing is subject to time-inconsistency and we investigate solutions to improve on the problem and restore the incentive for the private sector to invest in low-carbon innovation. We show that a superior price-investment equilibrium can be sustained in the...
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