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, and later a reduction. Optimal taxes and subsidies are derived both for the first-best case and for the case of a …
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-contingent renewable subsidies outperforms both unconditional commitment and discretion. The choice between the practically more feasible …-off between policy commitment and discretion affects the optimal intertemporal design of policies to support the deployment of … renewable energy sources. Using a dynamic partial equilibrium model of the power sector, we show that commitment to state …
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. -- carbon tax ; subsidies ; commitment … emissions, such as subsidies to renewable energy. An obvious reason for subsidizing alternatives to carbon energy is that the … to future tax rates. In some cases this inabilty to commit may justify subsidies to investments in renewable energy …
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This paper aims at characterizing the conditions of wind power deployment in order to infer a carbon price level that would provide wind power with comparable advantage over fossil fuel technologies as effective wind support policies. The analysis is conducted on Danish data from 2000 to 2010,...
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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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This paper provides a review of the literature on competitiveness and leakage concerns associated with differentiated climate abatement commitments among countries. The literature reviewed is not exhausted, but it is sufficient to provide a balanced view of both academics and policy circles....
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emissions, such as subsidies to renewable energy. An obvious reason for subsidizing alternatives to carbon energy is that the … future tax rates. In some cases this inabilty to commit may justify subsidies to investments in renewable energy. …
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China has realized that for its own sake and from the international community’s perspective, it cannot afford to continue along the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment. Accordingly, the country has placed ecological goals at the same level of...
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Under which conditions unilateral tightening of climate policy causes a weak or strong green paradox or even decreases social welfare has recently been studied by Hoel (2011). Hoel assumes that the costs of extracting fossil fuel are linear in output. We extend his model by allowing for...
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of output subsidies, feed-in tariffs are often implemented in addition to emissions policies. This paper reveals that …
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