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Economic impact of CO2 emissions and carbon tax in electric vehicle society in Toyohashi City in Japan
Miyata, Yuzuru; Shibusawa, Hiroyuki; Fujii, Tomoaki - 2015
In this paper, we explore the economic impact of promotion and realization of an electric vehicle society (EVS) in Toyohashi City in Japan. More concretely, this paper emphasizes a computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling approach to evaluate the following issues: economic impacts of...
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On the effects of linking voluntary cap-and-trade systems for CO2 emissions
Weitzman, Martin L.; Holtsmark, Bjart - 2018
Linkage of cap-and-trade systems is typically advocated by economists on a general analogy with the beneficial linking of free-trade areas and on the specific grounds that linkage will ensure cost effectiveness among the linked jurisdictions. An appropriate and widely accepted specification for...
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Economic growth and emissions : testing the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for ECOWAS countries
Omotor, Douglason Godwin - In: West African journal of monetary and economic integration 17 (2017) 2, pp. 25-56
The objective of this paper is to establish whether the estimated relationship between environmental degradation and per capita income corroborates the inverted U-shape hypothesis as exemplified by the Environmental Kuznets curves (EKCs) in selected ECOWAS countries. Considering two variants of...
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Climate activism favors pro-environmental consumption
Marini, Marco; Nocito, Samuel - 2023
We investigate whether climate activism favors pro-environmental consumption by examining the impact of Fridays for Future (FFF) protests in Italy on second-hand automobile transactions in the strike-affected areas. Leveraging data on 10 million automobile transactions occurring before and after...
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Up in smoke : the influence of household behavior on the long-run impact of improved cooking stoves
Hanna, Rema; Duflo, Esther; Greenstone, Michael - 2012
It is conventional wisdom that it is possible to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution, improve health outcomes, and … evidence, from a randomized control trial conducted in rural Orissa, India (one of the poorest places in India) on the benefits … of a commonly used improved stove that laboratory tests showed to reduce indoor air pollution and require less fuel. We …
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On the Effects of Linking Voluntary Cap-and-Trade Systems for CO2 Emissions
Weitzman, Martin - 2018
Linkage of cap-and-trade systems is typically advocated by economists on a general analogy with the beneficial linking of free-trade areas and on the specific grounds that linkage will ensure cost effectiveness among the linked jurisdictions. An appropriate and widely accepted specification for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908677
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Climate Change Cosmopolitanism
Sunstein, Cass R. - 2021
If one nation damages another, what are its obligations? This question can be approached and understood in diverse ways, but it is concretized in debates over the social cost of carbon, which is sometimes described as the linchpin of national climate policy. The social cost of carbon, meant to...
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Arbitrariness Review (With Special Reference to the Social Cost of Carbon)
Sunstein, Cass R. - 2021
In its ideal form, arbitrariness review is an instrument for promoting “deliberative democracy” – a system that combines reason-giving with political accountability. Under arbitrariness review in its current form, courts tend to embrace the “hard look doctrine,” which has a procedural...
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A simple formula for the social cost of carbon
Bijgaart, Inge van den; Gerlagh, Reyer; Korsten, Luuk; … - 2013
The social cost of carbon (SCC), commonly referred to as the carbon price, is the monetized damage from emitting one unit of CO2 to the atmosphere. The SCC is typically obtained from large-scale computational Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) that consolidate interdisciplinary climate research...
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Federal Pricing of Carbon – A Snapshot from February 2018
Flatt, Victor Byers - 2018
Whether or not the federal government should price carbon continues to be debated. There were several scholarly pieces examining the relative advantages and disadvantages of cap and trade v. a carbon tax at the time of Congressional Debate on the American Clean Energy and Security Act in 2010....
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