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Carbon Taxes : Their Macroeconomic Effects and Prospects for Global Adoption: A Survey of the Literature

Gandhi, Ved P. - 1998

The carbon tax is a major instrument for curbing greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. Yet its adoption has been limited because of concerns over its effects on economic growth, income distribution, and international competitiveness. The paper shows that policymakers can minimize...

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Revisiting carbon leakage

Misch, Florian; Wingender, Philippe - 2021

This paper estimates the carbon leakage rate across countries, arguably a key parameter in the international climate policy discussion including on border carbon adjustment, but which remains subject to significant uncertainty. We propose innovations along two lines. First, we exploit recently...

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Deforestation and climate change : reducing carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation

Bosetti, Valentina (ed.); Lubowski, Ruben N. (ed.) - 2010

Deforestation and emerging greenhouse gas compliance regimes : toward a global environmental law of forests, carbon and … deforestation : a stock-flow approach with target reductions /Andrea Cattaneo --Towards a sound REDD : ensuring globally consistent …"Deforestation and forest degradation have long been recognized as environmental problems, with concerns over …

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Payments for environmental services, forest conservation, and climate change : livelihoods in the REDD?

Tacconi, Luca (ed.); Mahanty, Sango (ed.); Suich, Helen (ed.) - 2010

Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) schemes at the national level. With its focus on livelihoods, the … other than carbon conservation. Drawing practical lessons for the design of activities aimed at reducing deforestation and … accessible also to non-experts in presenting the key issues faced in avoiding deforestation and benefiting livelihoods. …

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The long-run decoupling of emissions and output : evidence from the largest emitters

Cohen, Gail; Jalles, João Tovar; Loungani, Prakash; … - 2018

For the world's 20 largest emitters, we use a simple trend/cycle decomposition to provide evidence of decoupling …

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Markets for carbon and power pricing in Europe : theoretical issues and empirical analyses

Gullì, Francesco (contributor) - 2008

Why do power prices seem to be correlated with the carbon price in some markets and not in others? This crucial question is at the centre of Francesco Gullì's enlightening book, through which the contributing authors investigate a number of related issues. In particular, they explore why power...

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Electric vehicles, tax incentives and emissions : evidence from Norway

Camara, Youssouf; Holtsmark, Bjart; Misch, Florian - 2021

This paper empirically estimates the effects of electric vehicles (EVs) on passenger car emissions to inform the design of policies that encourage EV purchases in Norway. We use exceptionally rich data on the universe of cars and households from Norway, which has a very high share of EVs, thanks...

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Structural breaks in carbon emissions : a machine learning analysis

Yao, Jiaxiong; Zhao, Yunhui - 2022

To reach the global net-zero goal, the level of carbon emissions has to fall substantially at speed rarely seen in history, highlighting the need to identify structural breaks in carbon emission patterns and understand forces that could bring about such breaks. In this paper, we identify and...

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Commodity terms of trade : a new database

Gruss, Bernard; Kebhaj, Suhaib - 2019

and losses of income associated with changes in world prices-as well as additional country-specific series, including …

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The Effects of Economic Newson Commodity Prices : Is Gold Just Another Commodity?

Roache, Shaun K. - 2009

The paper uses an event study methodology to investigate which and how macroeconomic announcements affect commodity prices. Results show that gold is unique among commodities, with prices reacting to specific scheduled announcements in the United States and the Euro area (such as indicators of...

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