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Can non-market regulations spur innovations in environmental technologies? A study on firm level patenting
(Discussion papers;754, Working paper, 2013-09)This paper provides new evidence on the role of non-market based (“command-and-control”) regulations in relation to innovations in environmental technologies. While pricing is generally considered the first-best policy ... -
Emissions trading with offset markets and free quota allocations
(Discussion papers;719, Working paper, 2012-12)We study interactions between a “policy bloc’s” emissions quota market and an offset market where emissions offsets can be purchased from a non-policy “fringe” of countries (such as for the CDM under the Kyoto Protocol). ... -
Green serves the dirtiest : on the interaction between black and green quatas
(Discussion Papers;581, Working paper, 2009)Tradable black (CO2) and green (renewables) quotas gain in popularity and stringency within climate policies of many OECD countries. The overlapping regulation through both instruments, however, may have important adverse ... -
How well do tree plantations comply with the twin targets of the clean development mechanism? : the case of tree plantations in Tanzania
(Discussion Papers;No. 534, Working paper, 2008)Abstract: This paper studies the effect of a CDM tree-planting project on carbon sequestration and urban and rural income distribution, taking economy-wide impacts into account. Carbon sequestration in agricultural soil ... -
Implementing the EU renewable target through green certificate markets
(Discussion papers;No. 630, Working paper, 2010)Abstract: The EU Parliament has agreed on a target of a 20 % share of renewables in the EU’s total energy consumption by 2020. To achieve the target, the Council has adopted mandatory differentiated national targets for ... -
Incentives to invest in abatement technology : a tax versus emissions trading under imperfect competition
(Discussion Papers;606, Working paper, 2010)In the longer run, effects on R&D and the implementation of advanced abatement technology may be at least as important as short-run cost effectiveness when we evaluate public environmental policy. In this paper, we show ... -
Monitoring and enforcement of environmental regulations. Lessons from a natural field experiment in Norway
(Discussion Papers;680, Working paper, 2012)Relying on a small natural field experiment with random assignment of treatments, I estimate effects of three core elements of most monitoring and enforcement practices: self-reporting, audit frequency and specific deterrence. ... -
On the measurement of environmental taxes
(Discussion Papers;599, Working paper, 2009)The purpose of environmental taxes is to correct the market when it fails to take environmental damages into account, i.e. to internalize the Pigouvian element. In addition, fiscal taxes are levied on both polluting and ... -
Output-based allocation and investment in clean technologies
(Discussion Papers;644, Working paper, 2011)Allocation of emission allowances may affect firms' incentives to invest in clean technologies. In this paper we show that so-called output-based allocation tends to stimulate such investments as long as individual firms ... -
Political motives in climate and energy policy
(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 ... -
Price and welfare effects of emission quota allocation
(Discussion Papers;No. 661, Working paper, 2011)Abstract: We analyze how different ways of allocating emission quotas may influence the electricity market. Using a large-scale numerical model of the Western European energy market, we show that different allocation ... -
Price versus tradable quantity regulation : uncertainty and endogenous technology choice
(Discussion Papers;No. 643, Working paper, 2011)Abstract: This paper shows that tradable emissions permits and an emissions tax have a risk-related technology choice effect. We first examine the first- and second-order moments in the probability distributions of optimal ... -
Prices vs. quantities : technology choice, uncertainty and welfare
(Discussion Papers;677, Working paper, 2012)This paper shows that tradable emissions permits and an emissions tax affect the firms' technology choice differently under uncertainty. A tax encourages the most flexible technology if and only if stochastic costs and ... -
Prices vs. quantities with endogenous cost structure
(Discussion papers;755, Working paper, 2013-10)Authorities often lack information for efficient regulation of the commons. This paper derives a criterion comparing prices versus tradable quantities in terms of expected welfare, given uncertainty, optimal policy and ... -
Strategic investment in climate friendly technologies: the impact of permit trade
(Discussion Papers;No. 615, Working paper, 2010)Abstract: Our point of departure is that a group of developed countries invest in the development of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement technologies both at home and in developing countries. Such investments reduce the cost ... -
The fi scal incentive of GHG cap and trade. Permits may be too cheap and developed countries may abate too little
(Discussion papers;785, Working paper, 2014-07)The theoretical justification for a greenhouse gas (GHG) cap and trade system is that participants will trade emission permits until their marginal costs of abatement equal the equilibrium price of emission permits. Abatement ... -
The impacts of alternative policy instruments on environmental performance. A firm level study of temporary and persistent effects
(Discussion papers;788, Working paper, 2014-10)We study the effects of various environmental regulations on environmental performance measured as emission intensity. Moreover, we aim to test whether any such effects are persistent or only temporary. Conventional theory ...