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Clark, Gordon L. - 1993

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An empirical contribution to the debate on corruption, democracy and environmental policy

Pellegrini, Lorenzo (contributor); … - 2005

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Environmental innovations : institutional impacts on co-operations for sustainable development

Karl, Helmut; Möller, Antje; Matus, Ximena; Grande, Edgar - 2005

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Environmental innovations, local networks and internationalization

Cainelli, Giulio; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montresor, Sandro - 2011

This paper investigates the drivers of the environmental innovations (EI) introduced by firms in local production systems (LPS). The role of firm network relationships, agglomeration economies and internationalization strategies is analysed for a sample of 555 firms in the Emilia-Romagna region,...

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Politics and economics of second-best regulation of greenhouse gases : the importance of regulatory credibility

Bosetti, Valentina; Victor, David G. - 2010

Modellers have examined a wide array of ideal-world scenarios for regulation of greenhouse gases. In this ideal world …”—which has a strikingly small impact on total world cost of carbon regulations if international trade in emission credits allows … another factor that analysts have largely ignored: credibility. In the real world governments find it difficult to craft and …

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The effect of allowance allocations on cap-and-trade system performance

Hahn, Robert William; Stavins, Robert N. - 2010

We examine an implication of the “Coase Theorem” which has had an important impact both on environmental economics and on public policy in the environmental domain. Under certain conditions, the market equilibrium in a cap-and-trade system will be cost-effective and independent of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008732179

Delayed participation of developing countries to climate agreements: should action in the EU and US be postponed?

Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Tavoni, Massimo - 2008

This paper analyses the cost implications for climate policy in developed countries if developing countries are unwilling to adopt measures to reduce their own GHG emissions. First, we assume that a 450 CO2 (550 CO2e) ppmv stabilisation target is to be achieved and that Non Annex1 (NA1)...

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"The voracity effect" and climate change : the impact of clean technologies

Benchekroun, Hassan; Chaudhuri, Amrita Ray - 2011

We show that a technological breakthrough that reduces CO2 emissions per output can exacerbate the climate change problem: countries may respond by raising their emissions resulting in an increase of the stock of pollution that may reduce welfare. Using parameter values based on empirical...

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Energy abundance, trade and industry location

Gerlagh, Reyer; Mathys, Nicole A. - 2011

We study the effect of countries' energy abundance on trade and sector activity, conditional on sector's energy intensity, using an unbalanced panel with 14 high-income countries from Europe, America and Asia, 10 broad sectors, and years 1970-1997. We find that (i) countries with large energy...

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Linkage of tradable permit systems in international climate policy architecture

Stavins, Robert N.; Jaffe, Judson - 2008

greenhouse gases throughout the industrialized world, and the Clean Development Mechanism' an international emission …

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