This report presents the results of the study on the economic and environmental impacts of energy tax policies in the EU with the general equilibrium model GEM-E3.

The objective of this study is twofold: first to analyze how the implementation of the EU energy tax policies will affect the EU and its Member States and secondly to analyze how energy tax policies can contribute to climate policy objectives in the enlarged EU.

Climate change is one of the greatest global policy challenges, as it is widely recognised that unabated climate change can have large impacts on human societies and economic development. Despite the global nature of climate change impacts, the outcome of the recent Conferences of the...

<strong>Particiants: SEURECO/ERASME, E3MLab – ICCS</strong> This working paper presents in a first part the policy scenarios analyzed with the NEMESIS model and in a second part the policy scenarios analyzed with the GEM-E3 model

General equilibrium models are commonly used to quantify the implications of alternative economic policies (e.g. change in tax rates, imposition of import tariffs etc.) on economic growth, competitiveness and employment. In recent years, they are increasingly employed to study the macro-economic...

The computable general equilibrium model GEM-E3 has been used in a large set of climate policy applications supporting Commission policy proposals during the last decade, as well as in other environmental and economic policy areas. It can be considered a multi-purpose macroeconomic model,...

Climate change has become a critical issue in the international policy making agenda. At the UNFCC conference in Bali 2007, countries decided on a roadmap to achieve a ‘secure climate future’. Given the commitment to limit the temperature increase to 2° Celsius relative to the preindustrial...

The “Arab spring” aftermath calls for a closer look at the developments in the south Mediterranean countries. This paper develops and assesses alternative scenarios for the region up to the year 2030 with the employment of GEM-E3, a computable general equilibrium model. The scenarios...