Employing an environmentally differentiated duopoly model, we analyze how emission standards affect imports, the environment, and social welfare. We show that a strict emission standard is not necessarily import-restrictive, whereas it may possibly degrade the environment. Furthermore, we...

The effects of four environmental policy options for the reduction of pollution emissions, i.e. taxes, emission standards, auctioned permits and freely allocated permits, are analyzed. The setup is a real option model where the amount of emissions is determined by solving the firm's profit...

Employing an environmentally-differentiated products model with heterogeneous consumers in terms of environmental consciousness, this paper examines the effect of a unilateral change in a home emission standard on the qualities of products, aggregate emissions, and welfare of both home and...

This paper analyses the conditions under which a group of firms is incentivised to sign a voluntary agreement (VA) to control polluting emissions even in the presence of free-riding by other firms in the industry. We consider a policy framework in which firms in a given industry decide whether...

The main objectives of the study aim at analysing the strategic, legislative and financial framework for renewable energies in EU and Romania and the recent actions and measures for improving this framework. The results of the study refer to the improvement of the regulatory framework, the...

The economic crisis did not altered the deep structural changes underway in global energy markets - growing energy demand in developing countries and growing concerns about limiting carbon emissions - and revealed how oil, coal and gas markets could help solving major energy challenges ahead....

Emission trading has become recently more and more import in environmental regulation. In the context of controlling greenhouse gas emissions, the directive on a Europewide trading scheme for large immobile sources may be perceived as one of the most important milestones in recent years. Prior...

Empirical surveys find no significant impact of environmental regulation and environmental costs on international competitiveness. In the literature, we can find three hypotheses on the impact of environmental regulation. For the industrial-flight and pollution-haven hypothesis, there is no...