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Income inequality and the environmental Kuznets curve

Borghesi, Simone - 2000

This study explores the link between environmental degradation, economic growth and income inequality within the … framework of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. To investigate this issue, we examine how inequality affects … (OLS) model that has been used in the literature on this subject. Using a FE model we find that inequality has always a …

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Pathways to European greenhouse gas emissions trading history and misconceptions

Zapfel, Peter; Vainio, Matti - 2002

We develop and discuss the three pathways to European Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading: a top-down scheme based on the Kyoto Protocol of the UNFCCC, a bottom-up scheme linking national trading systems of EU Member States, and an EU-wide regional scheme based on the founding principles of the...

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E3 Impacts of Domestic Emissions Trading Regimes in Liberalised Energy Markets. Carbon Leakage or Double Dividend?

Kletzan, Daniela; Köppl, Angela; Kratena, Kurt - 2002

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Optimal Emission Pricing in the Presence of International Spillovers: Decomposing Leakage and Terms-of-Trade Motives

Böhringer, Christoph; Lange, Andreas; Rutherford, Thomas F. - 2012

Carbon leakage provides an efficiency argument for unilateral climate policy to differentiate emission prices in favor of emission-intensive and trade-exposed sectors. At the same time, differential emission pricing can be (mis-)used as a beggar-thy-neighbor policy to exploit terms of trade....

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A stationary equilibrium model of green technology adoption with endogenous carbon price

Dammann, Felix; Ferrari, Giorgio - 2024

This paper proposes and analyzes a stationary equilibrium model for a competitive industry which endogenously determines the carbon price necessary to achieve a given emission target. In the model, firms are identified by their level of technology and make production, entry, and abatement...

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Do rising top incomes lift all boats?

Andrews, Dan; Jencks, Christopher; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

inequality is permanent, the increase in growth appears to be permanent. However, our estimates imply that it would take 13 years …

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Global income distribution and poverty: Implications from the IPCC SRES scenarios

Calzadilla, Alvaro - 2010

population growth rates produce better outcomes. China and India play a central role on poverty reduction and global inequality … poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that … global poverty and inequality measures are sensitive to the downscaling methodology used. Our results show that future …

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Earnings inequality in India: has the rise of caste and religion based politics in India had an impact?

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2006

state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant inter-caste and inter-religion differences in earnings have …-religion earnings in India during the 1987-99 period, using the 43rd and 55th rounds of National Sample Survey (NSS). Our results …

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Efficiency, compensation, and discrimination: What is at stake when implementing the EU emissions trading scheme?

Böhringer, Christoph; Lange, Andreas - 2004

In 2005, an EU-wide emissions trading scheme covering major CO2 producing sites shall come into power. The key objective of the trading scheme is to promote cost-efficiency of carbon reduction within the EU. We identify policy-relevant tradeoffs between overall efficiency, compensation and...

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ETCLIP - The Challenge of the European Carbon Market: Emission Trading, Carbon Leakage and Instruments to Stabilise the CO2 Price. Implications of Linking on Leakage

Türk, Andreas - 2011

After the climate conferences in Copenhagen and Cancun, it is likely that the EU remains more ambitious regarding greenhouse gas reduction targets than other countries. The possible problem of carbon leakage and instruments to tackle it therefore remains an important issue in the European...

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