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There is widespread concern that climate policy is moving too slowly and that decarbonization of economic development … decarbonization and amplify current policies: growing substitutability of dirty inputs with clean inputs, learning and scale effects … effects significantly accelerate decarbonization and markedly reduce the costs of climate policy, with increasing …
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Economists tend to view a uniform emissions price as the most cost-effective approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This paper offers a different view, focusing on economies where society values the well-being of future generations more than private actors. Employing analytical and...
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path. We investigate the economic impact and the emission-saving potential of a decarbonization pathway for the Swiss … terms of emissions and economic impact. The optimal decarbonization pathway mix slightly increases welfare and lowers CO2 … reduction in emissions, a decarbonization pathway based on the considered scenarios is insufficient to reach the net …
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Air pollution is a grave problem in urban areas of developing countries, with the transport sector being one of the largest contributors to emissions. A possibility to reduce carbon dioxide emissions would be for individuals to switch to more fuel-efficient vehicles. However, a gamut of...
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decarbonization through renewable energy (RE) support policies. We find that both the aggregate cost and the distribution of cost …
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The paper develops a new type of CGE model to predict the effects of carbon policies on consumption, welfare, and sectoral development in the long run. Growth is fully endogenous, based on increasing specialization in capital varieties, and speci c in each sector of the economy. The benchmark...
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Computable general equilibrium models simulate the reaction of industries on carbon taxes. Their results differ strongly on the assumption of the underlying technologies. This paper compares two models and emphasizes the differences between their approaches to technology. The first model is the...
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Firms subject to cost-of-service regulation cannot withhold windfall profits associated with free emissions allowances. This paper examines the efficiency and distributional impacts of two approaches to transfer free allowances to consumers: output subsidies and lump-sum payments. We employ an...
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We study clean energy subsidies in a quantitative climate-economy model. Clean energy subsidies decrease carbon emissions if and only if they lower the marginal product of dirty energy. The constrained-efficient subsidy equals the marginal external cost of dirty energy multiplied by the marginal...
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This paper empirically examines the determinants of the demand for alternative energy sources and propulsion technologies in vehicles. The data stem from a stated preference discrete choice experiment with 598 potential car buyers. In order to simulate a realistic automobile purchase situation,...
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