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Prices vs. quantities and the intertemporal dynamics of the climate rent
Kalkuhl, Matthias; Edenhofer, Ottmar - 2010
This paper provides a formal survey of price and quantity instruments for mitigating global warming. We explicitly consider policies' impact on the incentives of resource owners who maximize their profits intertemporally. We focus on the informational and commitment requirements of the...
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Climate Policy and the Intertemporal Supply of Fossil Resources
Beermann, Christian - 2015
This thesis was written by Christian Beermann while he was a research assistant at the Center for Economic Studies (CES) at the University of Munich. It was completed in December 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in May 2015. The...
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Announcing is bad, delaying is worse: Another pitfall in well-intended climate policy
Jus, Darko; Meier, Volker - 2012
It is frequently observed that the implementation of green policies is delayed compared to the initial announcement. Considering a setting with a representative monopolist extracting a non-renewable resource, we demonstrate that announcing a green policy, but then delaying its implementation, is...
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Does a renewable fuel standard for biofuels reduce climate costs?
Greaker, Mads; Hoel, Michael; Rosendahl, Knut Einar - 2012
climate costs. In this paper we make two contributions to the literature. First, we study the market effects of a renewable …. Hence, even if emissions from biofuels are substantial, climate costs may be reduced. Finally, if only a subset of countries … introduce a renewable fuel standard, there will be carbon leakage to the rest of the world. However, climate costs may decline …
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Climate effects of carbon taxes, taking into account possible other future climate measures
Habermacher, Florian; Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2011
The increase of fuel extraction costs as well as of temperature will make it likely that in the medium-term future …
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Fossil Resources and Climate Change – The Green Paradox and Resource Market Power Revisited in General Equilibrium
Pfeiffer, Johannes - 2017
This dissertation was written by Johannes Pfeiffer while he was working with the ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in November 2016 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the department of economics of the University Regensburg in December 2016. The thesis studies unintended...
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The long run impact of biofuels on food prices
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; Moreaux, … - 2012
More than 40% of US grain is now used to produce biofuels, which are used as substitutes for gasoline in transportation. Biofuels have been blamed universally for recent increases in world food prices. Many studies have shown that these energy mandates in the US and EU may have a large (30-60%)...
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Magnetic Fusion - an Option for Base-load Electricity
Günter, Sybille - In: CESifo DICE Report 10 (2012) 3, pp. 24-28
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Die wahren Kosten der Atomkraft: Kernkraftwerke
Peterson, Sonja - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 91 (2011) 4, pp. 224
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Does the Iranian oil supply matter for the oil prices?
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2012
There is an increasing tension between the Iranian Government and the west on an increasingly likely European oil embargo and the Iranian threat to close the Strait of Hormuz. The main question is: What will happen to the international oil prices in the case of shocks in the flow of Iranian oil...
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