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Getting serious about the European: Green Deal with a Carbon Border Tax
Stöllinger, Roman - 2020
In December 2019 the incoming European Commission announced the European Green Deal (EGD), which aims to turn the EU into a climate-neutral, circular economy. Although it is as yet not very specific in many areas, the EU's Green Deal sends the right signal and contains several promising...
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Embodied Carbon Tariffs
Böhringer, Christoph; Carbone, Jared C.; Rutherford, … - 2011
In a world where the prospects of a global agreement to control greenhouse gas emissions are bleak, the idea of using trade policy as an implicit regulation of foreign emission sources has gained many supporters in countries contemplating unilateral climate policies. Embodied carbon tariffs tax...
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Strategic Subsidies for Green Goods
Fischer, Carolyn - 2016
externalities like human health or resource conservation, including those related to combating global climate change. The strategic …
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Environmental Protection for Sale: Strategic Green Industrial Policy and Climate Finance
Fischer, Carolyn - 2016
emissions). Governments may have some preference for supporting domestic production, such as by interest-group lobbying … environmental externalities are large enough relative to political distortions. Climate finance is an effective alternative if …
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Trade Restrictiveness Indices in Presence of Externalities: An Application to Non-Tariff Measures
Beghin, John; Disdier, Anne-Célia; Marette, Stéphan - 2014
demand by reducing negative externalities. We apply the framework to the database of Kee et al. (2009) and derive ad valorem …
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Does centralization affect the number and size of lobbies?
Redoano, Michela - 2007
reduce lobbying. However empirical evidence suggests that this is not always the case. This paper attempts to explain the … measure lobbying in two ways: (i) the number of lobbies formed under the two settings and, (ii) their impact on policy … offset their influence on policy; however it is possible that the threat of lobbying may affect policy even when no lobby …
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Environmental Tax Reform in a Federation with Rent-Induced Migration
Garon, Jean-Denis; Séguin, Charles - 2015
We study the welfare effects of a revenue-neutral green tax reform in a federation. The reform consists of increasing a tax on a polluting input and reducing that on labor income. Households are fully mobile within the federation. Regions are unequally endowed with a nonrenewable natural...
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East Asian integration: Towards an East Asian economic community
Dent, Christopher M. - 2017
East Asia is a region of great global significance, currently accounting for around 30% of the global economy by most measures, e.g. production, trade, investment and finance. It has also become increasingly integrated in various ways. Integration at the micro-level has steadily progressed since...
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Trade policies for a circular economy: What can we learn from WTO experience?
Steinfatt, Karsten - 2020
From its initial focus on minimizing waste generation, the circular economy has evolved into a broad-based approach to make resource use more sustainable. A big part of the appeal of a circular economy is the opportunities it creates not only for resource savings and better human health and...
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Trade and environment: What can we learn from trade policy reviews?
Lim, Aik Hoe; Mathur, Sajal; Suk, Gowoon - 2020
In order to ensure transparency and to keep abreast of trade policies in support of sustainability, the WTO Committee on Trade and Environment (CTE) mandated the WTO Secretariat to compile and collate all environment-related measures notified to WTO. The database also includes...
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