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Adaptation, Mitigation and 'Green' R&D to Combat Global Climate Change. Insights from an Empirical Integrated Assessment Exercise

Bosello, Francesco - 2015

This work develops a framework for the analysis at the macro-level of the relationship between adaptation and mitigation policies. The FEEM-RICE growth model with stock pollution, endogenous R&D investment and emission abatement is enriched with a planned-adaptation module where a defensive...

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Second Best Environmental Policies under Uncertainty

Antoniou, Fabio; Hatzipanayotou, Panos; Koundouri, Phoebe - 2010

We construct a strategic trade model of an international duopoly, whereby production by exporting firms generates a local pollutant. Governments use environmental policies, i.e., an emissions standard or a tax, to control pollution and for rent shifting purposes. Contrary to their firm, however,...

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Tradable Permits vs. Ecological Dumping

Antoniou, Fabio; Hatzipanayotou, Panos; Koundouri, Phoebe - 2010

In this paper we examine an alternative policy scenario, where governments allow polluting firms to trade permits in a strategic environmental policy model. We demonstrate, among other things, that with no market power in the permits market, governments of the exporting firms do not have an...

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Environmentalists' Behaviour and Environmental Policies

Canton, Joan - 2009

In this partial equilibrium and static model, the impact of environmentalism on two countries' environmental policies is presented. First, the only (indirect) way environmentalists influence the choice of pollution taxes is through a negative term in the welfare function in Home. It is defined...

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Environmental Regulation and Horizontal Mergers in the Eco-Industry

Canton, Joan; David, Maia; Sinclair-Desgagne, Bernard - 2014

This paper considers the environmental policy and welfare implications of a merger between environment firms (i.e., firms managing environmental resources or supplying pollution abatement goods and services). The traditional analysis of mergers in Cournot oligopolies is extended in two ways....

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Redealing the Cards : How the Presence of an Eco-Industry Modifies the Political Economy of Environmental Policies

Canton, Joan - 2007

An incumbent government maximizes its chances of being reelected. Its objective function encompasses both social welfare and political contributions. Its only instrument is a pollution tax. In an open-economy context, we introduce an eco-industry in addition to lobbies of polluting firms and...

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Regulatory stringency and emission leakage mitigation

Antoniou, Fabio; Hatzipanayotou, Panos; Tsakiris, Nikos - In: Environmental and resource economics 87 (2024) 6, pp. 1407-1424

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Macro-Economic Impact Assessment of Future Changes in European Marine Ecosystem Services

Bosello, Francesco - 2015

The present research has been developed within the EU FP7 VECTORS project. The main scope of the project (2011 … the EU marine ecosystem in the medium term (2030). We focus on those changes potentially affecting the fishing and the … marine ecosystem quality.Impacts on EU coastal countries Gross Domestic Product are negative and larger when the tourism …

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On the quality of emission reductions : observed effects of carbon pricing on investments, innovation, and operational shifts : a response to van den Bergh and Savin (2021)

Lilliestam, Johan; Patt, Anthony G.; Bersalli, Germán - In: Environmental and resource economics 83 (2022) 3, pp. 733-758

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Assessing macro-economic effects of climate impacts on energy demand in EU sub-national regions

Standardi, Gabriele; Dasgupta, Shouro; Parrado, Ramiro; … - In: Environmental and resource economics 86 (2023) 1/2, pp. 173-201

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