Carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere is becoming an important option to achieve net zero climate targets. This paper develops a welfare and public economics perspective on optimal policies for carbon removal and storage in non-permanent sinks like forests, soil, oceans, wood products or...

Climate change is one of the pressing issues of our time, and carbon emissions caused by industrial production are among its most important drivers. This paper analyses how multi-product firms adjust to an increase in the cost of emissions (e.g. due to the introduction of emissions pricing) in...

Climate effects of unilateral carbon policies are undermined by carbon leakage. To counteract leakage and increase global cost-effectiveness carbon tariffs can be imposed on the emissions embodied in imports from non-regulating regions. We present a theoretical analysis on the economic...

This paper aims at extracting a common factor from major carbon pricing. For this purpose, we use a Dynamic Factor Model (DFM) for which the unobserved common factors and idiosyncratic noises are potentially non-stationary processes. The two-step Kalman smoother procedure is used to estimate the...

This paper asks three questions. First, how do carbon taxes drive economic and environmental outcomes? Second, what is the appropriate economic base on which carbon taxes should be levied? Finally, how well does a carbon tax deliver economic environmental outcomes compared to a comparable...