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Still not getting energy prices right : a global and country update of fossil fuel subsidies

Parry, Ian W. H.; Black, Simon; Vernon, Nate - 2021

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Global fossil fuel subsidies remain large : an update based on country-level estimates

Coady, David P.; Parry, Ian W. H.; Le, Nghia-Piotr; … - 2019

lowered global carbon emissions by 28 percent and fossil fuel air pollution deaths by 46 percent, and increased government …

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Electric vehicles, tax incentives and emissions : evidence from Norway

Camara, Youssouf; Holtsmark, Bjart; Misch, Florian - 2021

This paper empirically estimates the effects of electric vehicles (EVs) on passenger car emissions to inform the design of policies that encourage EV purchases in Norway. We use exceptionally rich data on the universe of cars and households from Norway, which has a very high share of EVs, thanks...

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Modeling the U.S. climate agenda : macro-climate trade-offs and considerations

Barrett, Philip; Bergant, Katharina; Chateau, Jean; … - 2021

The run up to the 26th Climate Change Conference has brought tackling climate change to the fore of global policy making. In this context, the U.S. administration has recently unveiled new climate targets. This paper elaborates on the administration's plans and uses two models developed at the...

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Structural breaks in carbon emissions : a machine learning analysis

Yao, Jiaxiong; Zhao, Yunhui - 2022

To reach the global net-zero goal, the level of carbon emissions has to fall substantially at speed rarely seen in history, highlighting the need to identify structural breaks in carbon emission patterns and understand forces that could bring about such breaks. In this paper, we identify and...

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Energy subsidies and energy consumption : a cross-country analysis

Charap, Joshua; Silva, Arthur Ribeiro da; Rodriguez, Pedro - 2013

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Revisiting carbon leakage

Misch, Florian; Wingender, Philippe - 2021

This paper estimates the carbon leakage rate across countries, arguably a key parameter in the international climate policy discussion including on border carbon adjustment, but which remains subject to significant uncertainty. We propose innovations along two lines. First, we exploit recently...

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Carbon Taxes : Their Macroeconomic Effects and Prospects for Global Adoption: A Survey of the Literature

Gandhi, Ved P. - 1998

The carbon tax is a major instrument for curbing greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. Yet its adoption has been limited because of concerns over its effects on economic growth, income distribution, and international competitiveness. The paper shows that policymakers can minimize...

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Implementing the United States' domestic and international climate mitigation goals : a supportive fiscal policy approach

Parry, Ian W. H. - 2021

could contain a mix of economy-wide carbon pricing and revenue-neutral feebates (i.e., tax-subsidy schemes) with the latter … carbon price floor among large emitters (with flexibility to implement equivalent measures) could effectively scale up global …

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To pass (or not to pass) through international fuel price changes to domestic fuel prices in developing countries : what are the drivers?

Kpodar, Kangni; Imam, Patrick - 2020

While many developing countries limit the international fuel price pass through to domestic fuel prices, others do not …. Against this backdrop, we examine the factors that determine whether governments allow international fuel price changes to be … evidence is found that political variables or environmental policies matter with regard to fuel price dynamics in the short …

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