In the absence of a broad international agreement, national climate policies are less efficient, due to carbon leakage, and more costly, due to causing unemployment and a loss of competitiveness on international markets. As, in many countries, a substantial fraction of emissions results from the...

In the absence of a broad international agreement, national climate policies are less efficient, due to carbon leakage, and more costly, due to causing unemployment and a loss of competitiveness on international markets. As, in many countries, a substantial fraction of emissions results from the...

A carbon tax is an efficient economic instrument to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide released from fossil fuel burning. Its impacts on production of renewable energy depend on how it is designed-particularly in the context of the penetration of biofuels into the energy supply mix for road...

Mit 01. Januar 2008 wurde in der Schweiz ein System zum Handel von Emissionsrechten gestartet. Neben der CO2-Abgabe und dem Klimarappen auf Treibstoffe soll diese klimapolitische Massnahme wesentlich zur Erfüllung der Kyoto-Zielreduktion beitragen. Die Schweiz verfolgt zur Senkung der...

Mit 01. Januar 2008 wurde in der Schweiz ein System zum Handel von Emissionsrechten gestartet. Neben der CO2-Abgabe und dem Klimarappen auf Treibstoffe soll diese klimapolitische Massnahme wesentlich zur Erfüllung der Kyoto-Zielreduktion beitragen. Die Schweiz verfolgt zur Senkung der...

Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the socialsciences has provided a major new stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness.Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported subjective wellbeingis often taken as a proxy measure for...

In a series of papers in the 1970s, Camilo Dagum proposed several variants ofa new model for the size distribution of personal income. This Chapter traces thegenesis of the Dagum distributions in applied economics and points out paralleldevelopments in several branches of the applied statistics...