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attempt to sketch out, mostly with verbal arguments, the sense in which each country's extra cost from a higher emissions … emissions in response to the higher price. Some implications are discussed. While the paper could be centered on a more formal …
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With few exceptions, economic analyses of "cap-and-trade" permit trading mechanisms for climate change mitigation have been based on first-best scenarios without pre-existing distortions or regulations. The reason is obvious: interactions between permit trading and other regulations will be...
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Output-based carbon regulations--such as fuel economy standards and the rate-based standards in the Clean Power Plan--create well-known incentives to inefficiently increase output. Similar distortions are created by attribute-based regulations. This paper demonstrates that, despite these...
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climate and under net benefit maximization or Pigouvian emissions pricing. The remainder of the paper focuses on the …
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ante distortions due to the anticipation of transition relief (such as by receiving more free permits for greater emissions …
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Many policies to limit greenhouse gas emissions have at their core efforts to put a price on carbon emissions. Carbon …
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Emissions of greenhouse gases linked with global climate change are affected by diverse aspects of economic activity … shadow-price on carbon dioxide emissions. We examine alternative designs of three such instruments - carbon taxes, cap …
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economies, are false or need serious amendment in a world with international trade in goods. Since the three results we … a re-examination may be in order. Specifically, we demonstrate that in an open trading world, but not in a closed … trade does occur it may make both participants in the trade worse off and increase global emissions …
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This study reviews different approaches to the political and economic control of global public goods like global warming. It compares quantity-oriented control mechanisms like the Kyoto Protocol with price-type control mechanisms such as internationally harmonized carbon taxes. The pros and cons...
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change externalities from carbon emissions involve critical asymmetries. Small countries trade off own country costs of …
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