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rents created by higher prices, while emissions taxes offer opportunities for progressive revenue recycling. And although …
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The possibility of intertemporal banking and borrowing of tradeable permits is often viewed as tilting the various policy debates about optimal pollution control instruments toward favoring such time-flexible quantities. The present paper shows that this view is misleading, at least for the...
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) efficiently price emissions conditional on information, ii) efficiently incentivize removal of past emissions conditional on … information, and iii) efficiently aggregate dispersed information about the social cost of emissions. Conventional emission taxes …
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We study how the implementation of emissions trading systems (ETS) impacts emissions reductions and the usage of … implementations, we show that ETS adoption materially reduced greenhouse gas (carbon dioxide) emissions by 12.1% (18.1%). Moreover …, ETSs reduced overall emissions by cutting fossil fuel usage, such as coal, by 23.70% while boosting the usage of renewable …
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explaining what lies behind the demand for emissions. It traces out how a reduction in total emissions allowed in one country …
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This paper introduces endogenous and directed technical change in a growth model with environmental constraints and limited resources. A unique final good is produced by combining inputs from two sectors. One of these sectors uses "dirty" machines and thus creates environmental degradation....
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Much of the potential impact of environmental policy is though to come from the incentives it gives firms to develop and introduce new environmental products and processes. Almost all the literature on this issue has focused on the impact of environmental policy on the amount environmental R&D...
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standard with a multiplier or assuming zero upstream emissions can reduce electric vehicle market share by weakening the …
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"job-killing" EPA and proponents point to "green jobs" as a positive policy outcome. And beyond the political debates …
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We study a dynamic model of environmental protection in which the level of pollution is a state variable that strategically links policy making periods. Policymakers are forward looking but politically motivated: they have heterogeneous preferences and do not fully internalize the cost of...
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