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Bewertung der klimapolitischen Maßnahmen und Instrumente: eine Studie im Auftrag der E.ON AG

Wackerbauer, Johann; Albrecht-Saavedra, Jutta; … - 2011

Die globale Erwärmung und die daraus resultierenden ökonomischen und sozialen Konsequenzen sind eng verbunden mit dem Ausstoß von Treibhausgasen. Dem Kyoto-Protokoll nach ist die Europäische Union verpflichtet, die Emissionen dieser Gase bis zum Zeitraum 2008/2012 um 8% gegenüber 1990 zu...

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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 …

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Lessons from the American experiment with market-based environmental policies

Stavins, Robert N. - 2002

This paper provides an overview of the U.S. experience with market-based instruments with four categories: emission charges, tradeable permit systems,market friction reduction, and government subsidy reduction. Following that, I examine normative lessons that can be learned from these...

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Cost heterogeneity and the potential savings from market-based policies

Newell, Richard G.; Stavins, Robert N. - 2002

Policy makers and analysts are often faced with situations where it is unclear whether market-based instruments hold real promise of reducing costs, relative to conventional uniform standards. We develop analytic expressions that can be employed with modest amounts of information to estimate the...

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Experience with market-based environmental policy instruments

Stavins, Robert N. - 2002

Environmental policies typically combine the identification of a goal with some means to achieve that goal. This chapter for the forthcoming Handbook of Environmental Economics focuses exclusively on the second component, the means - the "instruments" - of environmental policy, and considers, in...

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Transitional politics: Emerging incentive-based instruments in environmental regulation

Aidt, Toke S.; Dutta, Jayasri - 2001

In the past 15 years, incentive-based environmental policy instruments, such as pollution taxes and tradeable pollution permits, have become an important supplement to tradition command-and-control instruments in Europe and the U.S. This paper proposes a positive theory of environmental...

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Costos de cumplimiento de regulación ambiental con información incompleta: Aplicación a fuentes fijas del PCE de Santiago, Chile

Clerger, Gaspard; Chávez, Carlos; Villena, Mauricio; … - In: Estudios de Economía 36 (2009) 2, pp. 165-190

We study the cost-effectiveness of a transferable emissions permit system (TEPS) vis a vis a system of emissions standards. Our analysis includes along with abatement costs, the costs of enforcing the system to induce compliance. Further, the analysis considers complete and incomplete...

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Mission Impossible!? On the Harmonization of National Allocation Plans under the EU Emissions Trading Directive

Böhringer, Christoph; Lange, Andreas - 2004

Starting in 2005, the EU will implement a CO2 emissions trading scheme. In this paper we show that the outspoken goals … harmonization, i.e. for identical assignment factors to similar firms located in different EU countries. …

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A European Perspective on Recent Trends in U.S. Climate Policy

Moslener, Ulf; Sturm, Bodo - 2008

Without participation of the United States, the world?s largest emitter of greenhouse gases, mitigation of global climate change seems hardly conceivable. Despite the U.S. rejection of the Kyoto Protocol and the reluctance of the Bush administration to engage in Post-Kyoto negotiations, recent...

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Alleviating Adverse Implications of EU Climate Policy on Competitiveness: The Case for Border Tax Adjustments or the Clean Development Mechanism?

Anger, Niels; Alexeeva-Talebi, Victoria; Löschel, Andreas - 2008

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 …

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