Given that the carbon price in the EU Emissions Trading System is only around 5€/tCO2 while consensus about a more … stringent EU climate policy is very unlikely in the near future, we explore the potential scope and optimal design of additional … national climate policies in the current EU policy framework. In particular, we suggest to implement a type of carbon price …

climate policy addressing global externalities. The debate is particularly salient in Europe, where the EU Emissions … TradingSystem (EU ETS) covers emissions of many traded sectors. In a first step, we review how carbon leakage and the pollution … introduced by the EU ETS has caused carbon leakage in European manufacturing. We compute trade flows in embodied carbon and value …

This paper empirically investigates the effect of the European Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) on cross … in areas outside the EU ETS. To study this problem, we employ a model of the firm's investment decision in conjunction … sensitivity to carbon pricing from observed pollution data. This allows to identify the effect of the EU ETS on international …