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The EU decarbonisation roadmap 2050: What way to walk?
Hübler, Michael; Löschel, Andreas - 2013
We carry out a detailed CGE (Computable General Equilibrium) analysis of the EU Decarbonisation Roadmap 2050 on a … macroeconomic and on a sectoral level. Herein, we study a Reference scenario that implements existing EU policies as well as 3 … ful l equalization of CO2 prices across all (EU) sectors as a reasonable policy option to avoid additional costs of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311889
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The competitiveness effects of the EU climate policy
Peterson, Sonja; Klepper, Gernot - 2008
EU has decided to reduce its GHG emissions by 20% relative to 1990 until the year 2020. These reductions will even rise … competitiveness as a priority area for EU policy and there is some concern about the competitiveness effects of EU climate policy. We … use the multi-sector, multi-region computable general equilibrium model DART to assess the impacts of the recent EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283294
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How does European integration affect the European stock markets?
Erdogan, Burcu - 2009
This paper examines the integration of stock markets in Germany, France, Netherlands, Ireland and UK over January 1973-August 2008 at the aggregate market and industry level considering the following industries: basic materials, consumer goods, industrials, consumer services, health care and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291779
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The European Union's service directive: Contrasting ex ante estimates with empirical evidence
Dettmer, Bianka - 2012
on a sample of EU- and non-EU countries in the period 2004 to 2010. We account for non-tariff trade barriers and the … European value-added-chain and promote business service exports from third countries towards the EU. The reorientation of the … new members is in turn associated with declining intra-EU10 business intensities while leaving business trade among the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291830
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Import protection, business cycles, and exchange rates: Evidence from the great recession
Bown, Chad P.; Crowley, Meredith A. - 2011
This paper uses highly detailed, quarterly data for five major industrialized economies to estimate the impact of macroeconomic fluctuations on import protection policies over 1988:Q1 - 2010:Q4. First, estimates on a pre-Great Recession sample of data provide evidence of two key relationships....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292150
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Including maritime transport in the EU's climate change policy: Country-based allocation and effects
Heitmann, Nadine - 2013
The European Union (EU) is actively campaigning for the global regulation of carbon emissions generated by maritime … decades. However, since a global regulation has not been reached yet, the EU is seeking ways to include the shipping sector in …'s emissions in the EU reduction commitment that is based on the nationality of a ship. Emissions that are generated by ships owned …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292722
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Ten Years after: Achievements and Challenges of the Euro-Mediterranean Economic and Financial Partnership
Brach, Juliane - 2006
EU and twelve countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) engaged in 1995 in the Euro …Seit 1995 engagieren sich die EU und zwölf Mittelmeerdrittländer in der Euro-Mediterranen Partnerschaft (EMP), die …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293513
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EU-African Economic Relations: Continuing Dominance, Traded for Aid?
Kohnert, Dirk - 2008
the development and bargaining power of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) in relation to the EU. However, Africa's least developed … deficits in good government in many African countries, the EU bears responsibility for the fragile state of many African … economies. The self-interested trade policies of the EU and other world powers contribute to poverty and unsatisfactory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293533
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Emissions trading, CDM, JI, and more: The climate strategy of the EU
Klepper, Gernot; Peterson, Sonja - 2005
The objective of this paper is to assess the likely allocation effects of the current climate protection strategy as it is laid out in the National Allocation Plans (NAPs) for the European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). The multi-regional, multi-sectoral CGEmodel DART is used to simulate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294952
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Assessing the Impact of ACP/EU Economic Partnership Agreement on West African Countries
Busse, Matthias; Großmann, Harald - 2004
The European Union is currently negotiating free trade agreements, called Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), with African countries as part of the Cotonou Agreement between the European Union and African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. The paper empirically assesses the impact of the EPAs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295427