This study considers the validity of an assumption of the representative agent often made in economic models, that the behaviour of an economic group is adequately represented by each member of the group having the identical characteristics of the average. It can be tested whenever sufficient...

This paper considers the distributional effects of imposing additional excise duties on energy products according to carbon content. The assumed duties escalate from 1999 to 2010 and achieve levels reducing CO2 emissions by 10 per cent below baseline by 2010 for 11 EU member states. By 2010,...

The research reported in this paper is an application of a large energy-environment-economy model2 of the UK to the medium-term issue of stabilising carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at their 1990 levels by the year 2000, a commitment by the UK government made at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro...