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On the effects of unilateral environmental policy on offshoring in multi-stage production processes
Schenker, Oliver; Koesler, Simon; Löschel, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
In the last decades supply chains emerged that stretch across many countries. This has been explained with decreasing trade and communication costs. We extend the literature by analyzing if and how unilateral environmental regulation induces offshoring to unregulated jurisdictions. We first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011122573
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On the effects of unilateral environmental policy on offshoring in multi-stage production processes
Schenker, Oliver; Koesler, Simon; Löschel, Andreas - Centrum für angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung, … - 2014
In the last decades supply chains emerged that stretch across many countries. This has been explained with decreasing trade and communication costs. We extend the literature by analyzing if and how unilateral environmental regulation induces offshoring to unregulated jurisdictions. We first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011124451
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Land Transport Systems under Climate Change: A Macroeconomic Assessment of Adaptation Measures for the Case of Austria
Bachner, Gabriel - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Social- und … - 2015
In the light of climate change, transport systems become increasingly stressed by extreme weather and gradual climatic changes, resulting in direct costs which arise in the affected sector as well as indirect costs due to economic spill-over effects. To attenuate these costs, sector specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168931
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Impact Assessment of European Clean Air policies in a CGE framework
Vrontisi, Zoi; Abrell, Jan; Neuwahl, Frederik; Saveyn, Bert - Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS), … - 2014
2012 one in eight of global deaths were a result of air pollution exposure. As part of a long-term effort, in late 2013 …, the European Commission (EC) adopted the "The Clean Air Policy Package", where it proposes new air pollution reduction … pollution abatement represents a cost for the abating sectors but also that the expenditure in abatement technologies is an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095419
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The economy-wide rebound effect from improved energy efficiency in Swedish industries – A general equilibrium analysis
Broberg, Thomas; Berg, Charlotte; Samakovlis, Eva - CERE - the Center for Environmental and Resource Economics - 2014
The objective of this paper is to analyze the rebound effect from increased efficiency in industrial use of energy in Sweden. Energy efficiency improvements can have sig-nificant micro- and macroeconomic effects that hampers the positive effect on real energy savings. To assess the size of the...
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Politiques de soutien à la capture et au stockage du carbone en France : un modèle d’équilibre général calculable
Ricci, Olivia - Chaire d'Économie du Climat, Université … - 2012
La France s'est fixée comme objectif de diviser par quatre ses émissions de gaz à effet de serre d'ici 2050 par rapport au niveau de 1990. L'objectif de l'étude est de déterminer les politiques publiques à mettre en œuvre pour atteindre ce Facteur 4 compte tenu de la disponibilité de la...
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A developing Asia emission trading scheme (Asia ETS)
Massetti, Emanuele; Tavoni, Massimo - In: Energy Economics 34 (2012) S3, pp. 436-436
This paper provides a model assessment of the role of developing Asia in the context of climate change policies. We diagnose the potential response of Asian economies to the imposition of various climate policies, showing that if we were to equally price carbon across the world roughly half of...
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EXPECTING THE UNEXPECTED: MACROECONOMIC VOLATILITY AND CLIMATE POLICY
McKibbin, Warwick; Morris, Adele; Wilcoxen, Peter - College of Business and Economics, Australian National … - 2008
To estimate the emissions reductions and costs of a climate policy, analysts usually compare a policy scenario with a baseline scenario of future economic conditions without the policy. Both scenarios require assumptions about the future course of numerous factors such as population growth,...
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The Carousel Value-added Tax Fraud in the European Emission Trading System
Berrittella, Maria; Cimino, Filippo Alessandro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2012
In this article, we analyse the effects of the carousel value-added tax fraud in the European carbon market and the legislative measures that the EU Member States could adopt to deal with this phenomena. We use a computable general equilibrium model, called GTAP-E and the version 6 of the GTAP...
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What is it going to take to achieve 2020 Emission Targets? Marginal abatement cost curves and the budgetary impact of CO2 taxation in Portugal (
Pereira, Alfredo Marvão; Pereira, Rui M. - Department of Economics, College of William & Mary - 2014
The objective of this paper is to study CO2 taxation in its dual role as a climate and fiscal policy instrument. It develops marginal abatement cost curves for CO2 emissions using a dynamic general equilibrium model of the Portuguese economy which highlights the mechanisms of endogenous growth...
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