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Pollution permits, imperfect competition and abatement technologies
Christin, Clémence; Nicolaï, Jean-Philippe; Pouyet, … - 2013
Under imperfect competition, the effect of a cap-and-trade system on indus- try profits depends on the type of abatement technology that is used by firms: industries that use process-integrated technologies are more affected than those using end-of-pipe abatement technologies. The interaction...
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Pollution Permits, Imperfect Competition and Abatement Technologies
Christin, Clemence - 2014
Under imperfect competition, the effect of a cap-and-trade system on industry profits depends on the type of abatement technology that is used by firms: industries that use process-integrated technologies are more affected than those using end-of-pipe abatement technologies. The interaction...
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The role of abatement technologies for allocating free allowances
Christin, Clémence; Nicolai, Jean-Philippe; Pouyet, … - 2011
The issue of how to allocate pollution permits is critical for the political sustainability of any cap-and-trade system. Under the objective of offsetting firms' losses resulting from the environmental regulation, we argue that the criteria for allocating free allowances must account for the...
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Combining emissions trading and emissions taxes in a multi-objective world
Lehmann, Paul - 2010
The combination of emissions trading and emissions taxes is usually rejected as redundant or inefficient. This conclusion is based on the restrictive assumption that both policies are exclusively meant to control pollution. However, particularly taxes may pursue a variety of other policy...
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Combining emissions trading and emissions taxes in a multi-objective world
Lehmann, Paul - 2010
The combination of emissions trading and emissions taxes is usually rejected as redundant or inefficient. This conclusion is based on the restrictive assumption that both policies are exclusively meant to control pollution. However, particularly taxes may pursue a variety of other policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010470281
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A carbon horse race : abatement subsidies vs. permit trading in Switzerland
Hintermann, Beat; Zarkovic, Maja - 2020
Swiss climate policy consists of three regulatory instruments for greenhouse gas emissions reduction: A CO 2 levy, the Swiss Emissions Trading System (CH EHS), and an additional nonEHS" program for medium-sized plants that consists of command-and-control elements plus a sizeable abatement...
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Climate policy under firm relocation : the implications of phasing out free allowances
Nachtigall, Daniel - 2016
trading scheme. A carbon price induces firms to invest in abatement capital, but may also lead to the relocation of some firms …. The social planner addresses the relocation problem by offering firms transfers, i.e. free allowances, conditional on … any relocation. However, if transfers in the future period are restricted, it is optimal to implement a declining carbon …
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Differentiating permit allocation across areas
Nicolaï, Jean-Philippe; Zamorano, Jorge - In: Annals of economics and statistics 132 (2018), pp. 105-128
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Anspruch und Wirklichkeit: Kann das Pariser Klimaabkommen funktionieren?
Weimann, Joachim; Pethig, Rüdiger; Hendricks, Barbara; … - In: ifo Schnelldienst 69 (2016) 03, pp. 3-29
Ist das Klimaabkommen, das auf der Weltklimakonferenz in Paris im Dezember 2015 beschlossen wurde, ein wichtiger Schritt für den weltweiten Klimaschutz? Joachim Weimann, Universität Magdeburg, sieht zwar in der Tatsache, dass es überhaupt ein Abkommen gibt und dass sich Länder verpflichten,...
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Efficient pollution regulation : getting the prices right
Muller, Nicholas Z.; Mendelsohn, Robert O. - In: The American economic review 99 (2009) 5, pp. 1714-1739
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