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The importance of social transfers in reducing poverty in Croatia

Bejaković, Predrag - In: Economic research (2013), pp. 103-116

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The impact of poverty on mental health and well-being and the necessity for integrated social policies

Sfetcu, Raluca; Pauna, Carmen Beatrice; Iordan, Marioara - 2011

links between poverty and ill health are well known. Poverty and illness together make people much more vulnerable and needy … poverty, compromised education, vulnerability, difficulty accessing housing, health care and employment, and lack of access to … of descending into a vicious cycle of poverty and adverse social and health outcomes. Designing social policies and …

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Taxing pollutuion : agglomeration and welfare consequences

Berliant, Marcus C.; Peng, Shin Kun; Wang, Ping - 2011

This paper demonstrates that a pollution tax with a fixed cost component may lead, by itself, to segregation between clean and dirty firms without heterogeneous preferences or increasing returns. We construct a simple model with two locations and two industries (clean and dirty) where pollution...

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Subsidising renewables but taxing storage? : second-best policies with imperfect carbon pricing

Helm, Carsten; Mier, Mathias - 2019

We consider an economy in which competitive firms use three technologies for electricity production: pollutive fossils, intermittent renewables like wind or solar, and storage. We determine optimal subsidies for renewables and storage capacities when carbon pricing is imperfect. This policy is...

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Tax competition with asymmetric endowments in fossil resources

Franks, Max; Lessmann, Kai - 2019

This paper contributes to the theoretical understanding of strategic interactions of governments on global factor markets. We analyze carbon taxes and subsidies and their impact on national welfare in a fiscal federalism setting with international markets for capital and fossil resources, and...

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A carbon price floor in the reformed EU ETS : design matters!

Hintermayer, Martin - 2020

Despite the reform of the European Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), discussions about complementing it with a carbon price floor (CPF) are ongoing. This paper analyzes the effect of a European CPF in the reformed EU ETS using a Hotelling model of the EU ETS, amended by the market stability...

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Green consumers, emission taxes, and firm relocation

Birg, Laura; Vosswinkel, Jan S. - 2020

This paper studies the interaction of environmental policy and green preferences under potential firm relocation. A green firm and a brown firm choose the environ- mental quality of their products. Both an emission tax and consumers' willingness to pay for green products encourage investment in...

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Coalition formation with border carbon adjustment

Schopf, Mark - 2020

The present paper analyzes the impact of a climate coalition's border carbon adjustment on emissions from commodity production, welfare and the coalition size. The coalition implements border carbon adjustment to reduce carbon leakage and to improve its terms of trade, while the fringe abstains...

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Prices versus quantities with morally concerned consumers

Schmidt, Klaus M.; Herweg, Fabian - 2021

It is widely believed that an environmental tax (price regulation) and cap-and-trade (quantity regulation) are equally efficient in controlling pollution when there is no uncertainty. We show that this is not the case if some consumers (firms, local governments) are morally concerned about...

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When standards have better distributional consequences than carbon taxes

Zhao, Jiaxin; Mattauch, Linus - 2021

Carbon pricing is the efficient instrument to reduce emissions. However, the geographical and sectoral coverage of substantial carbon pricing is low, often due to concerns that pricing may increase economic inequality. Regulatory standards such as fuel economy standards are more popular. But do...

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