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Who's Going Green and Why? Trends and Determinants of Green Investment
Eyraud, Luc; Zhang, Changchang; Wane, Abdoul Aziz; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
This paper fills a gap in the macroeconomic literature on renewable sources of energy. It offers a definition of green investment and analyzes the trends and determinants of this investment over the last decade for 35 advanced and emerging countries. We use a new multi-country historical dataset...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009401202
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Climate Policy and the Recovery
Keen, Michael; Jones, Benjamin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790462
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Comparing the Clean Air Act and a Carbon Price
Richardson, Nathan; Fraas, Arthur G. - 2013
been put forward, most of which would set a price on carbon. As of early 2013, the one politically plausible policy appears …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010676258
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How Much Carbon Pricing is in Countries’ Own Interests? The Critical Role of Co-Benefits
Parry, Ian W.H.; Veung, Chandara; Heine, Dirk - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
This paper calculates, for the top twenty emitting countries, how much pricing of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions is in their own national interests due to domestic co-benefits (leaving aside the global climate benefits). On average, nationally efficient prices are substantial, $57.5 per ton of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142137
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Fiddling while carbon burns: why climate policy needs pervasive emission pricing as well as technology promotion
Pezzey, John C.V.; Jotzo, Frank; Quiggin, John - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2006
Effective climate policy requires global emissions of greenhouse gases to be cut substantially, which can be achieved by energy supply technologies with lower emissions, greater energy use efficiency, and substitution in demand. For policy to be efficient requires fairly uniform, fairly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010911004
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Fiddling while carbon burns: why climate policy needs pervasive emission pricing as well as technology promotion
Pezzey, John C. V.; Jotzo, Frank; Quiggen, John - Australian National University, Economics and … - 2006
Effective climate policy requires global emissions of greenhouse gases to be cut substantially, which can be achieved by energy supply technologies with lower emissions, greater energy use efficiency, and substitution in demand. For policy to be efficient requires fairly uniform, fairly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113716
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Abgaben- und Mengenlösungen im Klimaschutz
Heilmann, Sven - Finanzwissenschaftlichen Forschungsinstitut, … - 2005
Regelungsbereiche mit der in Deutschland be-reits existierenden Ökosteuer. In diesem Artikel wird diskutiert, inwieweit durch die … regulierten Akteure notwendig wird. Die Wechselwirkungen der Preis- und Mengenlösungen werden sowohl hinsichtlich ihrer … idealtypischen Eigenschaften als auch nach ihrer praktischen Ausgestaltung in Deutschland analysiert. Im Vordergrund stehen dabei die …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005083031
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Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Supply for the G-7 Countries, with Emphasison Germany
Strand, Jon - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
economies (the G-7 plus Spain), with focus on Germany. Renewables production costs are compared to benefits, defined as … on Germany, the main European producer of non-traditional renewables. We question whether the level of subsidies can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005605334
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Distributional impacts of carbon pricing: A general equilibrium approach with micro-data for households
Rausch, Sebastian; Metcalf, Gilbert E.; Reilly, John M. - In: Energy Economics 33 (2011) S1, pp. 20-20
Many policies to limit greenhouse gas emissions have at their core efforts to put a price on carbon emissions. Carbon …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010571708
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Kohlendioxid: Zu viele unterschiedliche Preise für den Autofahrer
Dudenhöffer, Ferdinand; Krüger, Marcus - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 61 (2008) 10, pp. 17-18
Wird die Kfz-Steuer in eine so genannte CO2-Steuer umgebaut, wird die zukünftige Steuer implizit einen Preis für das …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013611