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Optimal Emission Pricing in the Presence of International Spillovers : Decomposing Leakage and Terms-of-Trade Motives
Böhringer, Christoph - 2010
Carbon control policies in OECD countries commonly differentiate emission prices in favor of energy-intensive industries. While leakage provides a efficiency argument for differential emission pricing, the latter may be a disguised beggar-thy-neighbor policy to exploit terms of trade. Using an...
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Endogenizing Technological Change : Matching Empirical Evidence to Modeling Needs
Pizer, William A. - 2007
Given that technologies to significantly reduce fossil fuel emissions are currently unavailable or only available at high cost, technological change will be a key component of any long-term strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In light of this, the amount of research on the pace,...
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Energy, the Environment, and Technological Change
Popp, David - 2009
Within the field of environmental economics, the role of technological change has received much attention. The long-term nature of many environmental problems, such as climate change, makes understanding the evolution of technology an important part of projecting future impacts. Moreover, in...
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Technology, International Trade, and Pollution from U.S. Manufacturing
Levinson, Arik - 2007
Total pollution emitted by U.S. manufacturers declined over the past 30 years by about 60 percent, even though real … may result from increased net imports of pollution-intensive goods ("international trade"). I first show that most of the … decline in pollution from U.S. manufacturing has been the result of changing technology, rather than changes in the mix of …
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Mirage on the Horizon : Geoengineering and Carbon Taxation Without Commitment
Acemoglu, Daron - 2018
We show that, in a model without commitment to future policies, geoengineering breakthroughs can have adverse environmental and welfare effects because they change the (equilibrium) carbon taxes. In our model, energy producers emit carbon, which creates a negative environmental externality, and...
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Uneven Growth : Automation's Impact on Income and Wealth Inequality
Moll, Benjamin; Rachel, Lukasz; Restrepo, Pascual - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
higher capital incomes. This increases inequality. To make this argument, we develop a tractable theory that links technology …
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Inequality, Technology, and the Social Contract
Benabou, Roland - 2004
The distribution of human capital and income lies at the center of a nexus of forces that shape a country's economic, institutional and technological structure. I develop here a unified model to analyze these interactions and their growth consequences. Five main issues are addressed. First, I...
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Decomposing Wage Inequality Change Using General Equilibrium Models
Abrego, Lisandro - 2002
This paper presents ex post decomposition analysis of wage inequality change using multi-sector general equilibrium models. The analytical structure used is a specific- factors model of trade, which we calibrate to UK data for the two years 1979 and 1975. We first calibrate our general...
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Technological Diffusion, Conditional Convergence, and Economic Growth
Bloom, David E. - 2002
Technological diffusion implies a form of 'conditional convergence' as lagging countries catch up with technological leaders. We find strong evidence of technological diffusion but not full convergence; differences in total factor productivity (TFP) persist even in the long run due to differences...
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Top incomes, rising inequality and welfare
Lansing, Kevin J.; Markiewicz, Agnieszka - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 128 (2018) 608, pp. 262-297
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