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Programs, prices and policies towards energy conservation and environmental quality in China
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2014
industrial policies and measures targeted for energy saving and pollution cutting, and the associated implementation and …
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Emission taxes, feed-in subsidies and the investment in a clean technology by a polluting monopoly
García-Alaminos, Ángela; Rubio, Santiago J. - 2019
The paper studies the use of emission taxes and feed-in subsidies for the regulation of a monopoly that can produce the same good with a technology that employs a polluting input and a clean technology. The second-best tax and subsidy are calculated solving a two-stage policy game between the...
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Regulating the environmental consequences of preferences for social status within an evolutionary framework
Sartzetakis, Eftichios Sofokles; Xepapadeas, Anastasios; … - 2015
Taking as given that we are consuming too much and that overconsumption leads to environmental degradation, the present paper examines the regulator's choices between informative advertisement and consumption taxation. We model overconsumption by considering individuals that care about social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513995
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Second best environmental policies under uncertainty
Antoniou, Fabio; Hatzipanayotou, Panos; Koundouri, Phoebe - 2010
local pollutant. Governments use environmental policies, i.e., an emissions standard or a tax, to control pollution and for … demand, the cost of abatement and the damage caused from pollution. Under these modes of uncertainty we derive sufficient … Policy ; Pollution ; Choice of Policy Instrument ; Uncertainty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008699655
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Decarbonization pathways in Southeast Asia : new results for Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam
Bosello, Francesco; Orecchia, Carlo; Raitzer, David A. - 2016
Southeast Asia is one of the most vulnerable regions of the world to the impacts of climate change. At the same time, the region is also following a trajectory that could make it a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in the future. Understanding the economic implications of policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591797
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The cost of climate stabilization in Southeast Asia, a joint assessment with dynamic optimization and CGE models
Bosello, Francesco; Marangoni, Giacomo; Orecchia, Carlo; … - 2016
Southeast Asia is at a time one of the most vulnerable region to the impacts of a changing climate, with millions of its inhabitants still trapped in extreme poverty without access to energy and employed in climate-sensitive sectors, and, potentially, one of the world’s biggest contributors to...
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The carousel value-added tax fraud in the European Emission Trading System
Berrittella, Maria; Cimino, Filippo Alessandro - 2012
In this article, we analyse the effects of the carousel value-added tax fraud in the European carbon market and the legislative measures that the EU Member States could adopt to deal with this phenomena. We use a computable general equilibrium model, called GTAP-E and the version 6 of the GTAP...
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Macro-economic impact assessment of future changes in European marine ecosystem services
Bosello, Francesco; Delpiazzo, Elisa; Eboli, Fabio - 2015
The present research has been developed within the EU FP7 VECTORS project (http://www.marine-vectors.eu/). The main scope of the project (2011 - 2015) has been to evaluate, from a multilateral perspective, drivers, pressures and vectors of changes in marine life of three main European seas...
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Integrated environmental assessment of future energy scenarios based on economic equilibrium models
Igos, Elorri; Rugani, Benedetto; Rege, Sameer; Benetto, … - 2015
The future evolution of energy supply technologies strongly depends on (and affects) the economic and environmental systems, due to the high dependency of this sector on the availability and cost of fossil fuels, especially on the small regional scale. This paper aims at presenting the modeling...
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Optimal management of markets for bankable emission permits
Lintunen, Jussi; Kuusela, Olli-Pekka - 2015
We examine the optimal management of emission permit markets when banking but not borrowing of permits is allowed. The regulator maximizes expected social welfare through an optimal allocation rule in an infinite horizon setting. The policy is second-best as the emission cap is set before the...
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