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Efficieny losses from overlapping economic instruments in European carbon emissions regulation

Böhringer, Christoph (contributor); … - 2006

Energy markets and energy-intensive industries in all EU member states especially in Germany are subject to a diverse set of policies related to climate change. We analyse the potential efficiency losses from simultaneous application of emission taxes and emissions trading in qualitative and...

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Optimal emission pricing in the presence of international spillovers : decomposing leakage and terms-of-trade motives

Böhringer, Christoph; Lange, Andreas; Rutherford, Thomas F. - 2012

Carbon leakage provides an efficiency argument for unilateral climate policy to differentiate emission prices in favor of emission-intensive and trade-exposed sectors. At the same time, differential emission pricing can be (mis-)used as a beggar-thy-neighbor policy to exploit terms of trade....

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Competitive altruism and endogenous reference group selection in private provision of environmental public goods

Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - 2012

We develop and test a model of social comparison in which individuals gain status through pro-social behavior (competitive altruism) and in which they endogenously choose the reference group and associated reference standard involved in signaling status (reference group selection). In our...

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Corruption, growth, and the environment : a cross-country analysis

Welsch, Heinz - 2003

The relationship between per capita income and a number of pollution indicators has been found to display an inverted U-shaped or downward-sloping pattern. Corruption may affect this relationship in two distinct ways: by raising pollution at given income levels (direct effect) and by reducing...

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Die Ökologische Steuerreform in Deutschland : ein umweltpolitisches Feigenblatt

Böhringer, Christoph; Schwager, Robert - 2002

werden. Dann wird Umweltschutz dort geleistet, wo er am wenigsten kostet. Aus theoretischer Sicht können Abweichungen von … erheblich ab. Über weitreichende Ausnahmen wird die ökologische Lenkungswirkung stark abgeschwächt. Umweltschutz wird damit … die geringe Zahlungsbereitschaft der Wähler für Umweltschutz und die starke sektorale Konzentration von Anpassungskosten …

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Assessing voluntary commitments : monitoring is not enough!

Böhringer, Christoph; Frondel, Manuel - 2002

This paper deals with a special type of voluntary approach to protect the environment, for example, that we would like to term voluntary commitment. Its major characteristic is that it represents a unilateral declaration without a decisively active role of regulators. In other words, voluntary...

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