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regulations that are intended to reduce overexploitation. To explore the use of input subsidies to increase compliance, we …
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Instruments chosen to pursue climate related targets are not always efficient. In this paper we consider an economy with three climate related targets for its electricity generation: a given share of “green” electricity, a given expansion of “green” electricity, and a given reduction of...
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damaging subsidies is lacking. Environmentally damaging subsidies are all kinds of direct and indirect subsidies aimed at … article develops a transparent method to determine the environmental impact of indirect government subsidies and derive policy … lessons. This method has been applied to several major subsidies in the Netherlands, namely in agriculture, energy, and …
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Environmental policies frequently target the ratio of dirty to green output within the same industry. To achieve such targets the green sector may be subsidised or the dirty sector be taxed. This paper shows that in a monopolistic competition setting the two policy instruments have different...
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We evaluate the effects of homogeneous subsidies granted for emission-free electricity generation on market outcomes … and social welfare. We use an analytical model to assess the conditions under which such subsidies increase efficiency of … wholesale energy and capacity markets. While the subsidies, even when combined with energy consumption taxes, cannot achieve …
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, especially for subsidies. Inexperienced developers are more responsive to liability relief and regulatory relief than they are to … subsidies. Similar considerations hold true for larger developers. …
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The paper analyzes the problem of achieving a target path of emission reductions in the electricity sector, using a scheme of tradable green certificates (TGC). There are two types of generation, renewable and fossil. The latter causes the emissions. The paper also examines effects from emission...
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Instruments chosen to pursue climate related targets are not always efficient. In this paper we consider an economy with three climate related targets for its electricity generation: a given share of "green" electricity, a given expansion of "green" electricity, and a given reduction of "black"...
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Many countries around the world either tax agriculture or provide subsidies through trade and agricultural policies …
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of this paper is to carry out an analysis of the impact and effectiveness of the EU policies on fisheries subsidies in … Spain. To accomplish this task, an analysis of the evolution of these subsidies in the period 1994-2012, was done. The paper …
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