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Carbon pricing and competitiveness : are they at odds?
Ellis, Jane; Nachtigall, Daniel; Venmans, Frank - 2019
This paper reviews ex-post empirical assessments on the impact of carbon pricing on competitiveness in OECD and G20 countries in the electricity and industrial sectors. Most of these assessments find no statistically significant effects of carbon pricing or energy prices on different dimensions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180332
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Climate change policies in Poland : minimising abatement costs
Égert, Balázs - 2012
signal for investment decisions in generation capacity. The isolation of the Polish electricity market implies a need for … more investment in low-emission technologies in Poland to achieve a given emissions-reduction target, whereas a deeper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009690152
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Long-term low emissions development strategies : cross-country experience
Aguilar Jaber, Aimée; Anderson, Brilé; Nachtigall, Daniel - 2020
The Paris Agreement invites signatory countries to formulate and communicate long-term low greenhouse gas emission development strategies (LT-LEDS). This report compares the experience of three developed countries that have communicated LT-LEDS within the framework of the United Nations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422646
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Capital-embodied technological progress and obsolescence : how do they affect investment behaviour?
Jin, Yosuke - 2017
same time it can modify the allocation of consumption, investment and the capital stock. With capital …, a shock to the process of capital-embodied technological progress is shown not to raise investment as much as could be … account of the improvement in the quality of capital goods rises only modestly. The muted investment response might seem very …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011823657
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Are environmental tax policies beneficial? : learning from programme evaluation studies
Teusch, Jonas; Braathen, Nils Axel - 2019
This paper provides a concrete example of how policy analysts can use empirical programme evaluation studies to perform ex-post assessments of environmentally related tax policies. A number of studies credibly identify causal effects of environmentally related tax policies, but do not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103049
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Better harnessing talent and knowledge to boost sustainable medium-term growth in Spain
Haugh, David; Westmore, Ben - 2014
Structural transformation towards a more knowledge-based economy will strengthen Spain’s medium-term growth prospects. To deal with long standing impediments to higher growth the government has a substantial structural reform programme touching on education, the labour market and the business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464864
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The joint effects of energy prices and carbon taxes on environmental and economic performance : evidence from the French manufacturing sector
Dussaux, Damien - 2020
The paper estimates the effect of energy prices and carbon taxation on firms’ environmental and economic performance. The analysis uses data on 8 000 firms that are representative of the French manufacturing sector and observed during 2001-2016. This paper also measures the causal impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180374
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The effect of energy prices and environmental policy stringency on manufacturing employment in OECD countries : sector- and firm-level evidence
Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Nachtigall, Daniel; Stadler, … - 2020
This study empirically assesses the impact of energy prices and environmental policy stringency (EPS) on manufacturing employment in OECD countries over the period 2000- 2014. At the sector level, increases in energy prices and in EPS have a negative and statistically significant impact on total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012304428
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Policies, regulatory framework and enforcement for air quality management : the case of China
Yang, Chan - 2020
Four decades of rapid economic expansion in China has generated enormous pressure on the environment, natural resources and public health. Alarming smog outbreaks during the 2010-13 period prompted the government to introduce a number of reforms to control air pollution, including a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180390
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Improving taxes and transfers in Australia
Hemmings, Philip J.; Tuske, Annamaria - 2015
Getting tax and transfer systems to efficiently deliver sufficient revenues to achieve macroeconomic targets, address goals in re-distribution and social welfare, encourage employment, accommodate business-competitiveness concerns and incorporate environmental issues is difficult. In Australia,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398824