Im Jahr 2008 wurden in der Schweiz aktive klimapolitische Massnahmen eingeführt,die zur Senkung der CO2-Emissionen beitragen sollen, um die Klimaziele im Rahmendes Kyoto-Protokolls (Senkung der Treibhausgasemissionen um 8 % im Vergleichzum Basisjahr 1990) erreichen zu können. Diese Massnahmen...

In the absence of a broad international agreement, national climate policiesare less efficient, due to carbon leakage, and more costly, due to causingunemployment and a loss of competitiveness on international markets. As,in many countries, a substantial fraction of emissions results from the...

Environmental policy often has to be devised under informational constraints,like uncertainty and asymmetric information. We consider an environmentalpolicy that aims at reducing the welfare losses caused by asymmetricinformation while being sufficiently simple for implementation. Inthis policy,...