Switzerland is already and will continue to be affected by climate change. In its fourth assessment report, the IPCC indeed predicts a temperature increase of approximately 2 °C during winter and 2.5 °C during summer until 2050 compared to 1990 levels. By then, precipitation is estimated to...

The introduction of unilateral climate policies, and the absence of a climate constraint in many parts of the world raise questions about the distortions in competitiveness and CO2 leakage that may result. Therefore, proposed climate policies are often accompanied by corrective measures intended...

he Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicts global sea level to rise (SLR) by up to 60 cm by 2100 in response to ocean warming and glaciers melting. Moreover, it is expected that sea level rise might be of 1 meter or more in 2100 due to recent...

Since the latter half of 1990s, it has been discussed that many developing countries are going to face serious population aging problem while these economies are still underdeveloped and not adequately prepared against aging yet in terms of institutional reform such as social security. As the...

This study aims to analyse the impact of increased ICT R&D public spending on the European economy using the regional RHOMOLO model. The theoretical motivation for this research stems from ongoing discussion on the complementarity and substitutability between public and private R&D spending, and...

During the 12th Five-Year Plan (FYP) period of China (2011-2015), Chinese government set the carbon intensity emission reduction target for the first time. This target is allocated to all the provinces in China without a trading mechanism. In our study, we aim to evaluate the impact among...

Tourism is an economic activity of immense significance for both developed and developing countries. In recent years, computable general equilibrium (CGE) models have been widely used to investigate the economic effects of tourism. In this paper a tourism CGE model is applied to estimate the...

We compute demand and supply multipliers in order to compare them. These multipliers are computed by using a CGE model. The analysis is applied to two regional economies, Catalonia and Extremadura, so we can compare the results of both economies. We build a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE)...

This study incorporates endogenous and directed technical change in a dynamic, general equilibrium framework, with a bottom-up representation of technologies. On the example of the Austrian transport sector this paper studies the economic impacts of a carbon tax and a subsidy in research and...

This paper suggests a demand side analysis of informal employment characterised by incompliances with labour tax regulation using a general equilibrium model with overlapping generations. A public social insurance provide benefits to formal employees in retirement, while we allow for an informal...