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Sulfur Dioxide Compliance of a Regulated Utility
Fullerton, Don - 1996
Electric utilities can reduce sulfur dioxide emissions through a variety of strategies such as adding scrubbers, switching to low- sulfur coal, or shifting output between generating plants with different emissions. The cost of achieving a given emission target can be minimized using a market for...
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Sources of Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries
Broner, Fernando - 2012
We study the determinants of comparative advantage in polluting industries. We combine data on environmental policy at the country level with data on pollution intensity at the industry level to show that countries with laxer environmental regulation have a comparative advantage in polluting...
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The Political Economy of Weak Treaties
Battaglini, Marco - 2016
puzzle in standard economic models. To study this phenomenon, we propose a positive theory of IEAs in which the political … (might not be implemented in full). The theory also provides a new perspective for understanding investments in green …
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Which Social Cost of Carbon? A Theoretical Perspective
Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2016
This paper develops a theoretical foundation for the social cost of carbon (SCC). The model highlights the source of debate over whether countries should use the global or domestic SCC for regulatory impact analysis. I identify conditions under which a country's decision to internalize the...
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How a Minimum Carbon Price Commitment Might Help to Internalize the Global Warming Externality
Weitzman, Martin L. - 2016
It is difficult to resolve the global warming free-rider externality problem by negotiating many different quantity targets. By contrast, negotiating a single internationally-binding minimum carbon price (the proceeds from which are domestically retained) counters self-interest by incentivizing...
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Level versus Equivalent Intensity Carbon Mitigation Commitments
Tian, Huifang - 2009
Large population / rapidly growing economies such as China and India have argued that in the upcoming UNFCCC negotiations in Copenhagen, any emission reduction targets they take on should be based on their intensity of emissions (emissions/$GDP) on a target date not the level of emissions. They...
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Domestic Policies, National Sovereignty and International Economic Institutions
Bagwell, Kyle - 1999
in an interdependent world? This question is at the center of the debate over the future role of GATT (and its successor …
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Post-Durban Climate Policy Architecture Based on Linkage of Cap-and-Trade Systems
Ranson, Matthew - 2012
The outcome of the December 2011 United Nations climate negotiations in Durban, South Africa, provides an important new opportunity to move toward an international climate policy architecture that is capable of delivering broad international participation and significant global CO2 emissions...
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Free Trade and Global Warming : A Trade Theory View of the Kyoto Protocol
Copeland, Brian R. - 2000
economies, are false or need serious amendment in a world with international trade in goods. Since the three results we … highlight have framed much of the ongoing discussion and research on the Kyoto protocol our viewpoint from trade theory suggests … a re-examination may be in order. Specifically, we demonstrate that in an open trading world, but not in a closed …
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The Potential Global and Developing Country Impacts of Alternative Emission Cuts and Accompanying Mechanisms for the Post Copenhagen Process
Tian, Huifang - 2010
We report numerical simulation results using a multiyear global multi country modeling framework which we use to assess the impacts of alternative emissions cuts which will likely come under consideration for the process to follow the December 2009 UNFCCC negotiation in Copenhagen. The...
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