• Optimal harvest age considering multiple carbon pools - a comment 

      Holtsmark, Bjart; Hoel, Michael; Holtsmark, Katinka (Discussion papers;704, Working paper, 2012-09)
      In two recent papers, Asante and Armstrong (2012) and Asante et al. (2011) considered the question of optimal harvest ages. They found that the larger are the initial pools of dead organic matter (DOM) and wood products, ...
    • Output-based rebating of carbon taxes in the neighbor’s backyard. Competitiveness, leakage and welfare 

      Böhringer, Christoph; Bye, Brita; Fæhn, Taran; Rosendahl, Knut Einar (Discussion papers;783, Working paper, 2014-06)
      We investigate how carbon taxes combined with output-based rebating (OBR) in an open economy perform in interaction with the carbon policies of a large neighboring trading partner. Analytical results suggest that whether ...
    • Pareto-efficient climate agreements 

      Asheim, Geir B.; Holtsmark, Bjart (Discussion Papers;No. 505, Working paper, 2007)
      Abstract: Recent contributions show that climate agreements with broad participation can be implemented as weakly renegotiation-proof equilibria in simple models of greenhouse gas abatement where each country has a binary ...
    • Political motives in climate and energy policy 

      Bruvoll, Annegrete; Dalen, Hanne Marit; Larsen, Bodil Merethe (Discussion papers;721, Working paper, 2012-12)
      Standard economic theory provides clear guidance on the design of cost-efficient policy in the presence of imperfect markets and externalities. However, observed policies reveal extensive discrepancies between principles ...
    • Smart hedging against carbon leakage 

      Böhringer, Christoph; Storrøsten, Halvor Briseid; Rosendahl, Knut Einar (Discussion papers;920, Working paper, 2019-11)
      Policy makers in the EU and elsewhere are concerned that unilateral carbon pricing induces carbon leakage through relocation of emission-intensive and trade-exposed industries to other regions. A common measure to mitigate ...
    • Subsidising carbon capture : effects on energy prices and market shares in the power market 

      Aune, Finn Roar; Liu, Gang; Rosendahl, Knut Einar; Sagen, Eirik Lund (Discussion Papers;595, Working paper, 2009)
      This paper examines how ambitious climate policies and subsidies to carbon capture may affect international energy prices and market shares in the power market. A detailed numerical model of the international energy markets ...
    • The clean development mechanism versus international permit trading: the effect on technological change 

      Hagem, Cathrine (Discussion Papers;No. 521, Working paper, 2007)
      Abstract: The clean development mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol may induce technological change in developing countries. As an alternative to the clean development mechanism regime, developing countries may accept a ...
    • The European Union's potential for strategic emissions trading in a post-Kyoto climate agreement 

      Eyckmans, Johan; Hagem, Cathrine (Discussion Papers;No. 530, Working paper, 2008)
      Abstract: The literature suggests that Russia and Ukraine may become large sellers of greenhouse gas emissions permits under the Kyoto Protocol and might exploit their market power to maximize trading profits. The EU ...
    • Trade-offs between carbon sequestration, landscape aesthetics and biodiversity in a cost-benefit analysis of land use options in Norway 

      Iversen, Endre Kildal; Grimsrud, Kristine; Lindhjem, Henrik; Jacobsen, Jette Bredahl (Discussion papers;915, Working paper, 2019-09)
      Norway is considering a national afforestation program for greenhouse gas (GHG) sequestration on recently abandoned semi-natural pastureland. However, the program may have negative impacts on landscape aesthetics and ...