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Sectoral incidence and efficiency of climate policy : a quantitative economic analysis of alternative policy designs
Alexeeva-Talebi, Victoria - 2011
The EU advocates minimising potentially significant competitiveness losses in energy-intensive industries as a … competitiveness in domestic energy intensive sectors. Based on a numerical analysis, it is shown that policy options under … competitiveness of energy-intensive industries in Europe. These policy measures can, however, induce economic inefficiencies. The …
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Optimal Energy Investment and R&D Strategies to Stabilise Greenhouse Gas Atmospheric Concentrations
Carraro, Carlo; Bosetti, Valentina; Massetti, Emanuele; … - 2007
The stabilisation of GHG atmospheric concentrations at levels expected to prevent dangerous climate change has become an important, global, long-term objective. It is therefore crucial to identify a cost-effective way to achieve this objective. In this paper we use WITCH, a hybrid...
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Global Food Production under Alternative Scenarios
Huan-Niemi, Ellen; Niemi, Janne; Niemi, Jyrki S. - 2010
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Production Functions for Climate Policy Modeling: An Empirical Analysis
van der Werf, Edwin - 2007
Quantitative models for climate policy modeling differ in the production structure used and in the sizes of the elasticities of substitution. The empirical foundation for both is generally lacking. This paper estimates the parameters of two-level CES production functions with capital, labour and...
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Abatement and Transaction Costs of Carbon-Sink Projects Involving Smallholders
Cacho, Oscar J.; Lipper, Leslie - 2007
Agroforestry projects have the potential to help mitigate global warming by acting as sinks for greenhouse gasses. However, participation in carbon-sink projects may be constrained by high costs. This problem may be particularly severe for projects involving smallholders in developing countries....
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Climate Policy and the Optimal Extraction of High- and Low-Carbon Fossil Fuels
van der Werf, Edwin; Smulders, Sjak - 2007
We study how restricting CO2 emissions affects resource prices and depletion over time. We use a Hotelling-style model with two non-renewable fossil fuels that differ in their carbon content (e.g. coal and natural gas) and in addition are imperfect substitutes in final good production. We show...
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International Energy R&D Spillovers and the Economics of Greenhouse Gas Atmospheric Stabilization
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Massetti, Emanuele; … - 2007
It is widely recognized that technological change has the potential to reduce GHG emissions without compromising economic growth; hence, any better understanding of the process of technological innovation is likely to increase our knowledge of mitigation possibilities and costs. This paper...
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Determining Project-Based Emissions Baselines with Incomplete Information
Fischer, Carolyn - 2002
Project-based mechanisms for emissions reductions credits, like the Clean Development Mechanism, pose important challenges for policy design because of several inherent characteristics. Participation is voluntary. Evaluating reductions requires assigning a baseline for a counterfactual that...
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Modeling Economywide versus Sectoral Climate Policies Using Combined Aggregate-Sectoral Models
Pizer, William A.; Burtraw, Dallas; Harrington, Winston; … - 2005
Economic analyses of climate change policies frequently focus on reductions of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions via market-based, economywide policies. The current course of environment and energy policy debate in the United States, however, suggests an alternative outcome: inefficiently...
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Discounting the Distant Future: How Much Do Uncertain Rates Increase Valuations?
Newell, Richard G.; Pizer, William A. - 2001
Costs and benefits in the distant future-such as those associated with global warming, long-lived infrastructure, hazardous and radioactive waste, and biodiversity-often have little value today when measured with conventional discount rates. We demonstrate that when the future path of this...
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