The importance of manufacturing for industrialized countries has been reappraised, specifically in the wake of the financial crisis and of China's rise to world no 1 in manufacturing. A "new industrial policy" should bolster reindustrialization, different from the old selective and...

Die Dissertation fokussiert auf suboptimale, aber politisch realistische(re) Klimaschutzmassnahmen. Sie benutzt analytische und kalibrierte numerische Modelle, um das Grüne Paradoxon, CO2 leakage und die Frage zwischen einer preislichen (CO2-Steuern) und einer mengenmässigen...

Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol that was created in the third Conference of Parties in 1997. This book examines the current status and characteristics of CDM projects in developing countries. Secondly, it clarifies ways to adjust the differences in...

The bottom-up national approaches to implement global climate policy under the current United Nations scheme raise concerns about carbon leakage and distributive justice. To limit these concerns, some propose switching to a consumption based emission accounting principle and implementing an...