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Climate change meets trade in promoting green growth: potential conflicts and synergies

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2010

To date, border adjustment measures in the form of emissions allowance requirements (EAR) under the U.S. proposed cap-and-trade regime are the most concrete unilateral trade measure put forward to level the carbon playing field. If improperly implemented, such measures could disturb the world...

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Production Offshoring and the Skill Composition of Italian Manufacturing Firms: A Counterfactual Analysis

Antonietti, Roberto; Antonioli, Davide - 2007

determines a bias in the relative employment of skilled versus unskilled workers. Using a balanced panel of firm-based data …, although weak, skill bias effect of production offshoring on the labor-force composition of Italian manufacturing: in … skill ratio, we find that the skill bias effect is primarily driven by a fall in the employment of production workers, while …

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Firms' international status and heterogeneity in performance: Evidence from Italy

Casaburi, Lorenzo; Gattai, Valeria; Minerva, G. Alfredo - 2008

that only export abroad. Second, firms that engage in final goods off-shoring are more productive than firms that engage in … inputs off-shoring. Third, in terms of the productivity dynamics over the period 1998-2003, exporters' performance in Italy …

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Riding the Waves of Reforms in Corporate Law, an Overview of Recent Improvements in Italian Corporate Codes of Conduct

Sabatini, Fabio - 2006

This paper provides an exploratory analysis on the relationship between educational qualification and work status in Italy, with a particular focus on entrepreneurs and self-employed workers. Rough data are drawn from four waves (1995, 1998, 2002, and 2004) of the Survey of Household Income and...

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The SO2 allowance trading system: The ironic history of a grand policy experiment

Schmalensee, Richard; Stavins, Robert N. - 2012

Two decades have passed since the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 launched a grand experiment in market-based environmental policy: the SO2 cap-and-trade system. That system performed well but created four striking ironies. First, by creating this system to reduce SO2 emissions to curb acid...

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Open Trade with the U.S. without Compromising Canada's Ability to Comply with its Kyoto Target

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2003

There are no other two countries in the world that trade as much between themselves as do Canada and the U.S.. It should thus come as no surprise that the U.S. deviation from international obligations makes Canadian industries' competitiveness (trade) concerns become even more rigorous. Against...

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Emissions Trading Regimes and Incentives to Participate in International Climate Agreements

Buchner, Barbara; Carraro, Carlo - 2003

This paper analyses whether different emissions trading regimes provide different incentives to participate in a cooperative climate agreement. Different incentive structures are discussed for those countries, namely the US, Russia and China, that are most important in the climate negotiation...

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Lessons from the American experiment with market-based environmental policies

Stavins, Robert N. - 2002

This paper provides an overview of the U.S. experience with market-based instruments with four categories: emission charges, tradeable permit systems,market friction reduction, and government subsidy reduction. Following that, I examine normative lessons that can be learned from these...

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Experience with market-based environmental policy instruments

Stavins, Robert N. - 2002

Environmental policies typically combine the identification of a goal with some means to achieve that goal. This chapter for the forthcoming Handbook of Environmental Economics focuses exclusively on the second component, the means - the "instruments" - of environmental policy, and considers, in...

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Complying with the Kyoto Protocol under uncertainty: Taxes or tradable permits?

Quirion, Philippe - 2002

The Kyoto Protocol on climate change allocates tradable quotas to developed countries, but let them free to choose the means to respect their quota. There are good reasons for a country not to control its firms through internationally tradable permits. We thus compare a tax and purely domestic...

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