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We quantify the partial and general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive database covering manufacturing trade for 186 countries over the period 1980-2016, we find that the average impact of GATT/WTO membership on trade among member counties is...
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This paper analyses second-best optimal environmental policies in the presence of a double dividend. Using a partial equilibrium model, the paper first reconfirms the well-known result that the existence of a double dividend (in its weak form) favours environmental policy instruments which -...
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that are welfare-enhancing when greenhouse gas externalities are taken into account. We also derive the conditions under …
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This paper examines the potential role for fuel substitution in electricity production in reducing carbon dioxide emissions over a ten-year time horizon. This is achieved by adding fuel substitution to output changes resulting from demand responses arising from a tax on carbon dioxide emissions....
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environmental regulation taking the shape of standards or taxes. Moreover, the paper shows that environmental externalities and … externalities related to social norms interact and that an optimal environmental policy should consider both types of externalities …
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This paper shows how competition between interests can internalize economic externalities groups. The key feature is …
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This paper shows how competition between interests can internalize economic externalities groups. The key feature is …
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focus on taxation and subsidies. In order to understand the quite complex literature on this subject, we draw on the theory … of the second best and the theory of optimal taxation. The thrust of the chapter is that there are multiple objectives … theory, while Section 6 presents empirical evidence for the European Union. The latter section focuses primarily on …
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In the context of emission trading it seems to be taken as given that people's preferences can be ignored with respect to the whole process of fixing emission targets and allocating emission permits to polluters. With this paper we want to reopen the debate on how citizens can be involved in...
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Canada's natural capital — its resources, ecosystems and wildlife — are indispensable to the productivity of industry. Despite this, both the public and private sectors have failed to adequately factor in the consequences of production and consumption on the natural environment. There is a...
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