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On the relevance of ideological identification and environmental values for beliefs and attitudes toward climate change: An empirical cross country analysis

Ziegler, Andreas - 2015

Based on unique data from representative computer-based surveys among more than 3400 citizens, this paper empirically examines the determinants of climate change beliefs, the support of publicly financed climate policy, and the (stated) willingness to pay a price premium for climate-friendly...

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Environmental effects of a vehicle tax reform: Empirical evidence from Norway

Ciccone, Alice - 2015

structure on three main dimensions: (i) the average CO2 emissions intensity of new registered vehicles, (ii) the relative change …

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Carbon Tax Burdens on Low-Income Households: A Reason for Delaying Climate Policy?

Parry, Ian - 2015

This paper discusses techniques for measuring the incidence of carbon taxes across different household income groups and provides some cross-country estimates of these effects for selected advanced countries. The general message of this paper is that distributional concerns should not...

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Environmental Policy à la Carte: Letting Firms Choose their Regulation

Krysiak, Frank C.; Oberauner, Iris Maria - 2008

Environmental policy often has to be devised under informational constraints, like uncertainty and asymmetric information. We consider an environmental policy that aims at reducing the welfare losses caused by asymmetric information while being sufficiently simple for implementation. In this...

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Prices vs. Quantities: An Empirical Study of Firms' Instrument Choice

Oberauner, Iris Maria - 2010

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Voluntary Corporate Climate Initiatives and Regulatory Loom: Batten Down the Hatches

Ilić, Dragan; Mollet, Janick Christian - 2015

The rationale of voluntary corporate initiatives is often explained with preparedness for future regulation. We test this hypothesis for the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) and the Climate Leaders (CL), two popular voluntary US environmental programs to curb carbon emission that were operating...

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Environmental and Economic Impact of Carbon Credit in Makassar City in Indonesia

Miyata, Yuzuru; Shibusawa, Hiroyuki; Fukuda, Takahide - 2015

warming. The upper limits of CO2 emissions are assigned to each firm or country, and the carbon credit is defined as a credit … of the volume of CO2 emissions generated by economic activities. The mechanism in which the total CO2 emission is … Indonesia as a study country is that CO2 emissions in Indonesia considering the swiddens and the peaty land are ranked at the …

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Environmental regulations and labor markets

Deschenes, Olivier - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

Environmental regulations such as air quality standards can lead to notable improvements in ambient air quality and to related health benefits. But they impose additional production costs on firms and may reduce productivity, earnings, and employment, especially in sectors exposed to trade and...

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Policy implications of resource constraints on the European economy

Kratena, Kurt; Sommer, Mark - 2014

and indirectly contributes to global resource use. GHG emissions of Europe are still an important part of global emissions … and emissions per capita are far beyond a sustainable global level. Security of supply and the risks attached to that are … emissions), as well as to domestic consumption (domestic material consumption, DMC). The main instrument discussed in this …

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Climate change related risks, opportunities and adaptation actions in European cities: Insights from responses to the CDP cities program

Groth, Markus; Brück, Maria; Oberascher, Teresa - 2015

Cities, home to more than half of the world's population and important economic hubs, are vulnerable to climate change and worthy to protect. To address these challenges, implementing adaptation measures is inevitable. The paper provides insights into climate change related risks, opportunities...

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