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Cross Country Fairness Considerations and Country Implications of Alternative Approaches to a Global Emission Reduction Regime
Tian, Huifang - 2012
The UNFCCC process of negotiating multilateral carbon emissions reductions thus far has focused on approximately equiproportional cuts in annual carbon emissions by country along the lines of the Kyoto Protocol agreement. But now, with the objective of involving large developing countries such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460218
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Carbon Motivated Regional Trade Arrangements : Analytics and Simulations
Dong, Yan - 2009
This paper presents both analytics and numerical simulation results relevant to proposals for carbon motivated regional trade agreements summarized in Dong & Whalley(2008). Unlike traditional regional trade agreements, by lowing tariffs on participant's low carbon emission goods and setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463767
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The Macroeconomic Impact of Europe’s Carbon Taxes
Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2020
Policy makers often express concern about the impact of carbon taxes on employment and GDP. Focusing on European countries that have implemented carbon taxes over the past 30 years, we estimate the macroeconomic impacts of these taxes on GDP and employment growth rates for various specifications...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481343
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Tax Distortions and Global Climate Policy
Babiker, Mustafa H. - 2002
We consider the efficiency implications of policies to reduce global carbon emissions in a world with pre-existing tax … environmental taxes are returned in a lump sum fashion, need not hold in a world with multiple distortions. We then present a large …-scale computable general equilibrium model of the world economy with distortionary taxation. We use this model to evaluate a number of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469575
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The Macroeconomic Effects of a Carbon Tax to Meet the U.S. Paris Agreement Target : The Role of Firm Creation and Technology Adoption
Finkelstein Shapiro, Alan; Metcalf, Gilbert E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We analyze the quantitative labor market and aggregate effects of a carbon tax in a framework with pollution externalities and equilibrium unemployment. Our model incorporates endogenous labor force participation and two margins of adjustment influenced by carbon taxes: (1) firm creation and (2)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533344
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Five Myths About Carbon Pricing
Metcalf, Gilbert E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
While carbon pricing, in general, and carbon taxes, in particular, are popular with economists, they are subject to considerable misunderstanding among policy makers and the public. In this paper I consider and refute five myths about carbon taxes: 1) that a carbon price will hurt economic...
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How Large are the Impacts of Carbon Motivated Border Tax Adjustments
Dong, Yan - 2009
increases, and other country's production decreases compared with the case of no BTAs. With the contraction of world trade flows … caused by the financial crisis, carbon motivated BTAs offer a prospect of a compounding effect in a world which is going …This paper discusses the size of impact of carbon motivated border tax adjustments on world trade. We report numerical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463037
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Unilateral Measures and Emissions Mitigation
Chatterji, Shurojit - 2009
We discuss global climate mitigation that builds on existing unilateral measures to cut emissions. We document and discuss the rationale for such unilateral measures argue that such measures have the potential to generate positive spillover effects both within and across countries. In a simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463208
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Global Financial Structure and Climate Change
Whalley, John - 2009
This paper analyzes the medium to long-term implications of global warming for the evolution of global financial structures. Stern (2007) and other related scientific literature reports that greenhouse gas emissions generated by human activities will very possibly lead to global temperature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463760
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International Trade and the Negotiability of Global Climate Change Agreements
Cai, Yuezhou - 2009
Country incentives to participate in cooperative arrangements which either fully or partially internalize climate change externalities from carbon emissions involve critical asymmetries. Small countries trade off own country costs of carbon mitigation actions against their own benefits from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463936