Ambitious unilateral EU environmental policy has raised concerns about adverse competitiveness implications for … measures to address these concerns in the EU Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS): border tax adjustments (BTA) and the Clean … policy on energy-intensive and export-oriented industries. The regulatory protection of these industries via subsidies for EU …

Given the coexistent EU priorities concerning the competitiveness of European industries and international emissions … regulation at the company level, this paper assesses the efficiency and competitiveness implications of linking the EU Emissions … equilibrium approach shows that the aggregate welfare impacts of linking the EU ETS are rather limited. We further find that the …

cost pass-through is by far the prevailing behaviour of German energy-intensive sectors participating in the EU Emissions … induced by the EU ETS are therefore likely to be absorbed through a reduction of profit margin, creating incentives to …

This paper explores the ability of European refineries to pass-through costs associated with the introduction of the EU … Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). We estimated a sequence of vector error correction models (VECM) within a multi …-national setting which covers 14 EU member states. Using weekly data at the country level, this paper finds a significant influence of …