Incomplete enforcement of environmental laws and regulations does not seem to be a transitory phenomenon. Enforcement deficits may arise because polluters are reluctant to comply but also because the monitoring agency prefers pleasant working conditions to rigorous enforcement effort. In this...

Ergänzend zu dem im ifo Schnelldienst 19/2001 diskutierten Thema "Klimaschutz - ist das Emissionshandelssystem ein effizientes Mittel zur Emissionsverringerung?" sind Prof. Dr. Uwe Schubert und Oliver Percl, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, der Ansicht, dass beim derzeitigen Wissensstand die...

Internalizing the global negative externality of carbon emissions requires flattening the extraction path of world fossil energy resources (= world carbon emissions). We consider governments having sign-unconstrained emission taxes at their disposal and seeking to prevent world emissions from...

Internalizing the global negative externality of carbon emissions requires flattening the extraction path of world fossil energy resources (= world carbon emissions). We consider governments having sign-unconstrained emission taxes at their disposal and seeking to prevent world emissions from...

We investigate the formation of global climate agreements (= stable grand climate coalitions) in a model, in which climate policy takes the form of carbon emission taxation and fossil fuel and consumption goods are traded on world markets. We expand the model of Eichner and Pethig (2014) by...

Scientific expertise suggests that mitigating extreme world-wide climate change damages requires avoiding increases in the world mean temperature exceeding 2° Celsius. To achieve the two degree target, the cumulated global emissions must not exceed some limit, the so-called global carbon...