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Disposal is not free : fiscal instruments to internalize the environmental costs of solid waste
Matheson, Thornton - 2019
This paper provides an overview of global solid waste generation, its environmental costs, and fiscal instruments that can be used to encourage waste reduction and finance proper disposal. Countries-especially island nations--struggle to manage an ever-increasing volume of solid waste,...
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Climate-related stress testing : transition risks in Norway
Grippa, Pierpaolo; Mann, Samuel - 2020
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Monitoring the climate impact of fiscal policy : lessons from tracking the COVID-19 response
Eltokhy, Khaled; Funke, Katja; Huang, Guohua; Kim, Yujin; … - 2021
In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, governments around the world announced unprecedented fiscal packages to address the economic impact of the crisis. The unusually large scale of the packages was accompanied by widespread calls for "greening" them to meet the dual goals of economic recovery and...
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The impact of environmental policy on innovation in clean technologies
Eugster, Johannes - 2021
This paper studies the effect of climate change mitigating policies on innovation in clean energy technologies. Results suggest that the tightening of environmental policies since the early 1990s have made a statistically and economically significant contribution to the increase in clean...
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Financial regulation, climate change, and the transition to a low-carbon economy : a survey of the issues
Demekas, Dimitri G.; Grippa, Pierpaolo - 2021
There are demands on central banks and financial regulators to take on new responsibilities for supporting the transition to a low-carbon economy. Regulators can indeed facilitate the reorientation of financial flows necessary for the transition. But their powers should not be overestimated....
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Reconsidering climate mitigation policy in the UK
Arregui, Nicolas; Parry, Ian W. H. - 2020
The UK has pledged to cut greenhouse gases 57 percent below 1990 levels by 2030, to be emisisons neutral by 2050, and to phase out internal combustion engine vehicles by 2030. Much progress has been made, but fully achieving these ambitious objectives with the current policy framework will be...
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Fiscal Expectations Under the Stability and Growth Pact : Evidence From Survey Data
Poplawski-Ribeiro, Marcos - 2011
France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom during the period of the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP). Our findings …'s and market experts’ deficit forecasts also increased in France, Italy, and the United Kingdom, particularly during the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014412192
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Budgetary Transparency for Public Expenditure Control
Reviglio, Franco - 2001
This paper explains why EMU countries seem unable or unwilling to undertake structural reforms of public expenditure. One of the reasons is political. What public expenditure reforms might be pursued without changing the political system? Without political reforms, technical improvements made to...
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European Financial Integration and Revenue from Seignorage : The Case of Italy
International Monetary Fund - 1989
exchange rate expectations and on interest rates on publicly held government debt. In Italy, the high stock of such debt in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396172
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European Productivity, Innovation and Competitiveness : The Case of Italy
Tiffin, Andrew - 2014
In Italy, price-based competitiveness measures are not always an accurate predictor of trade outcomes. This paper … Italy’s export market share. Overall, Italy maintains a high-quality export mix, and the adaptability of small … sectors are weighed down by the structural barriers that have depressed productivity more broadly. Italy’s future …
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