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The role of fiscal instruments in environmental policy

Kosonen, Katri; Nicodème, Gaëtan J.A. - 2009

Environmental protection is one of Europe's key values. The EU has set clear policy objectives to achieve its … environmental goals. The EU has favoured market-based instruments, among which fiscal instruments to tackle the climate change …

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Ökonomische Auswirkungen umweltpolitischer Regulierungen: eine Machbarkeitsstudie vor dem Hintergrund der Anforderungen der Richtlinie 96/61/EG über die integrierte Vermeidung und...

Rave, Tilmann; Triebswetter, Ursula - 2006

Diese Studie wurde für das Umweltbundesamt erstellt und soll darüber hinaus Anstöße für das vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung initiierte Projekt „Neue Techniken für den integrierten, medienübergreifenden Umweltschutz“ liefern. Den Hintergrund für die Studie bildet die...

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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 …

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Long-term impacts of environmental policy and eco-innovative activities of firms

Rennings, Klaus; Rexhäuser, Sascha - 2010

This paper analyses two aspects of environmental regulations triggered by ecoinnovations. First, whether there are long term effects of regulation on innovation. Second, whether the impact of different types of regulation differ by type of the environmental benefit of the innovations. To answer...

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Environmental Regulation and International Trade

Mulatu, Abay; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Withagen, Cees A. - 2004

We empirically investigate the responsiveness of international trade to the stringency of environmental regulation. Stringent environmental regulation may impair the export competitiveness of ‘dirty’ domestic industries, and as a result, ‘pollution havens’ emerge in countries where...

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Environmental policy design and the fragmentation of international markets for innovation

Johnstone, Nick; Hascic, Ivan - 2009

It has long been argued that the implementation of market-based environmental policy instruments such as environmentally-related taxes and tradable permits is likely to lead to greater technological innovation than more direct forms of regulation such as technology-based standards. One of the...

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Environmental policy and the macroeconomy under shallow-lake dynamics

Heijdra, Ben J.; Heijnen, Pim - 2009

We study the environmental and economic effects of public abatement in the presence of multiple stable steady-state ecological equilibria. Under shallow-lake dynamics (SLD), the isocline for the stock of pollution features two stable branches, a good and a bad one. Assuming that the ecology is...

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Limits to CBA in UK and European environmental policy: Retrospects & future prospects

Turner, R. Kerry - 2006

This paper reviews the contemporary debate and the now long standing role of CBA in UK and European environmental policy appraisal and looks forward to possible future applications. The position taken is that despite its limitations CBA still has an important part to play in environmental policy...

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Die Porter-Hypothese im Lichte der Neuordnung europäischer Chemikalienregulierung: Does it hold?

Frohwein, Torsten - 2003

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Agri-environmental schemes and grassland biodiversity: Another side of the coin

Münch, Angela - 2010

In this paper part of the existing Agri-Environmental Schemes (AES) of the European Union are evaluated by using data on county level instead of applying field studies. The attempt is made to disentangle the effects of AES on land management practice as well as land use on biodiversity. It is...

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