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Reaching net zero while safeguarding competitiveness and social cohesion in Germany
Krill, Zeev - 2023
Germany intends to reach climate neutrality in 2045, tripling the speed of emission reductions that was achieved between 1990 and 2019. Soaring energy prices and the need to replace Russian energy imports have amplified the urgency to act. Various policy adjustments are needed to ensure...
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Economic effects of the EU’s ‘Fit for 55’ climate mitigation policies: A computable general equilibrium analysis
Chateau, Jean - 2023
This study analyses the economic effects of the EU's ‘Fit for 55’ climate mitigation policies using the OECD ENV-Linkage model, a dynamic, global Computable General Equilibrium model. The model projects macroeconomic, sectoral, energy and emission trends for the EU, and for the five largest...
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The effect of a carbon tax rise on Iceland’s economy
Blöchliger, Hansjörg - 2022
This paper studies the potential impact of higher carbon taxation - to reach the government’s emission targets by 2030 - on Iceland’s economy. The paper is divided into two parts. First, a DSGE modelling exercise suggests that the equivalent of an oil price hike of between 30% and 55% is...
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Measuring environmental policy stringency in OECD countries : An update of the OECD composite EPS indicator
Kruse, Tobias - 2022
countries and 13 policy instruments, focussing on climate change and air pollution mitigation policies. It up-grades the index …
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Measuring Environmental Policy Stringency in OECD Countries : A Composite Index Approach
Botta, Enrico - 2014
air pollution, are scored and aggregated into composite EPS indexes. Two EPS indexes are proposed – one for the energy …
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Greener Growth in the Belgian Federation
Koźluk, Tomasz - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011
The degradation of the environment due to climate change and pollution can harm living standards and damage growth … accumulated over the years highlight the challenges of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and water pollution in a cost ….oecd.org/eco/surveys/Belgium).<P>Une croissance plus verte en Belgique<BR>La dégradation de l’environnement due au changement climatique et à la pollution peut porter …
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Predicting Peaks and Troughs in Real House Prices
Rousová, Linda; Noord, Paul van den - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011
OECD work prior to the financial crisis suggested that real prices in several housing markets had become vulnerable to a change in financial and economic conditions, with the risk of a subsequent downturn becoming increasingly possible, as proved to be the case. With corrections in many, but not...
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Do Structural Policies Affect Macroeconomic Stability?
Ziemann, Volker - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
Using a panel of OECD countries, this study assesses the linkages between structural policies and macroeconomic stability. Business cycle and time-series characteristics of GDP and its components are employed to define various measures for economic instability and for the persistence of adverse...
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Modelling Cyclical Divergence in the Euro Area: The Housing Channel
Noord, Paul van den - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2004
After the launch of the single currency the euro exchange rate fell and interest rates had converged towards the (low) German level. These shocks have worked out differently for the small and large countries. Housing markets have acted as an important vehicle of transmission of these shocks onto...
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Are House Prices Nearing a Peak?: A Probit Analysis for 17 OECD Countries
Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et …; … - 2006
House prices have been moving up strongly in real terms since the mid-1990s in the majority of OECD countries, with the ongoing upswing the longest of its kind in the OECD area since the 1970s. If interest rates were to rise significantly, real house prices may be at risk of nearing a peak. The...
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