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Under What Conditions Does a Carbon Tax on Fossil Fuels Stimulate Biofuels?
Timilsina, Govinda R. - 2017
A carbon tax is an efficient economic instrument to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide released from fossil fuel burning. Its impacts on production of renewable energy depend on how it is designed -- particularly in the context of the penetration of biofuels into the energy supply mix for road...
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Strategic Climate Policy with Offsets and Incomplete Abatement : Carbon Taxes Versus Cap-and-Trade
Strand, Jon - 2017
This paper provides a first analysis of optimal offset policies by a "policy bloc" of fossil fuel importers implementing a climate policy, facing a (non-policy) fringe of other importers, and a bloc of fuel exporters. The policy bloc uses either a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade scheme, jointly...
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Taxes and Caps as Climate Policy Instruments with Domestic and Imported Fuels
Strand, Jon - 2017
. The analysis assumes that the world can be split into two regions, with two fuels that both lead to carbon emissions …
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Paris Climate Agreement and the Global Economy : Winners and Losers
Mani, Muthukumara - 2018
The 2015 Paris Climate Agreement was the first instance of countries adhering to take a collective action against global warming. More than 190 countries came forward and submitted their contributions in the form of Intended Nationally Determined Contributions, reflective of their ability and...
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Market-Based Instruments for International Aviation and Shipping as a Source of Climate Finance
Keen, Michael - 2017
The international aviation and maritime sectors today enjoy relatively favorable tax treatment, as their fuels are not taxed and the sectors are not subject to any value-added tax or turnover tax. Nor are these fuel uses subject to any global measures to reduce their associated CO2 emissions,...
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Equilibrium Fictions : A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity
Hoff, Karla - 2017
equilibrium fictions. In the framework of this paper, technology, contacts with the outside world, and changes in power and wealth …
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Low Tax Jurisdictions and Preferential Regimes : Policy Gaps in Developing Economies
Leigh Pemberton, Jonathan - 2019
This paper reviews recent international initiatives and domestic policy developments aimed at helping countries to protect their tax base against erosion by individuals and companies that allocate assets to or route income via low tax jurisdictions. The paper highlights the benefits and...
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Size-Dependent Tax Enforcement and Compliance : Global Evidence and Aggregate Implications
Bachas, Pierre Jean - 2018
This paper studies the prevalence and consequences of size-dependent tax enforcement and compliance. The identification strategy uses the ranking of industries' average firm size in the United States as an instrument for the size ranking of the same industries in developing countries. Data on...
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Green Subsidies and the WTO
Charnovitz, Steve - 2017
This paper provides a detailed explanation how the law of the World Trade Organization regulates environmental … relevant World Trade Organization rules and case law, including the recent Canada-Renewable Energy case. The paper also makes … specific recommendations for how World Trade Organization law can be improved and discusses the literature on reform proposals …
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What Drives the Global"Land Rush"?
Arezki, Rabah - 2017
The 2007-2008 upsurge in agricultural commodity prices gave rise to widespread concern about investors causing a "global land rush" . Large land deals can provide opportunities for better access to capital, transfer of technology, and advances in productivity and employment generation. But they...
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