In this paper we investigate the introduction of an export tax on steam coal levied by an individual country (Australia … consisting of an optimal policy problem at the upper level, and an equilibrium model of the international steam coal market … (based on COALMOD-World) at the lower level. We find that a unilaterally introduced Australian export tax on steam coal has …

charging strongly increases the utilization of lignite and hard coal plants, whereas additional power in the user-driven mode … is predominantly generated from natural gas and hard coal. Specific CO2 emissions of EV are substantially larger than …

The Trump administration has promised to stop the spiraling down of the U.S. coal industry that has been going on for … several years. We discuss the origins of the decline of the U.S. coal industry and new policy interventions by the Trump … administration. We find that a further decrease of coal consumption in the U.S. electricity sector must be expected because of the …

production. Here, coal as both, the most abundant and the most emission-intensive fuel, plays a pivotal role. In this paper, I … employ a numerical model of the international steam coal market (COALMOD‐World) to examine two alternative supply …‐side policies: 1) a production subsidy reform introduced in major coal producing countries, in line with the G20 initiative to …