Browsing Discussion Papers by Author "Greaker, Mads"
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A Comment on the Environment and Directed Technical Change
Greaker, Mads; Heggedal, Tom-Reiel (Discussion papers;713, Working paper, 2012-11)The major claim in Acemoglu, Aghion, Bursztyn & Hemous (2012) (AABH) is that subsidies for research and development of clean technologies are more important than carbon taxes when dealing with climate change. However, they ... -
A Kantian approach to sustainable development indicators for climate change
Greaker, Mads; Stoknes, Per Espen; Alfsen, Knut H.; Ericson, Torgeir (Discussion papers;718, Working paper, 2012-11)Agenda 21 required countries to develop and regularly update a national set of indicators for sustainable development. Several countries now have such sets also including separate indicators for climate change. Some of ... -
Can voluntary product-labeling replace trade bans in the case of GMOs?
Greaker, Mads; Chen, Yuyu (Discussion Papers;No. 485, Working paper, 2006)Abstract: Genetically modified (GM) food has raised both health-risk fears and environmental concerns. This has led some countries to ban the trade in such food triggering a great deal of controversy among countries. ... -
Carbon capture and storage technologies in the European power market
Golombek, Rolf; Greaker, Mads; Kittelsen, Sverre A.C.; Røgeberg, Ole; Aune, Finn Roar (Discussion Papers;603, Working paper, 2009)We examine the potential of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies in the European electricity markets, assessing whether CCS technologies will reduce carbon emissions substantially in the absence of investment ... -
Directed technical change and the resource curse
Greaker, Mads; Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; Rosendahl, Knut Einar (Discussion Paper;No. 991, Working paper, 2022-09)The "resource curse" is a potential threat to all countries relying on export income from abundant natural resources such as fossil fuels. The early literature hypothesized that easily accessible natural resources would ... -
Does a renewable fuel standard for biofuels reduce climate costs?
Greaker, Mads; Hoel, Michael; Rosendahl, Knut Einar (Discussion papers;720, Working paper, 2012-12)Recent contributions have questioned whether biofuels policies actually lead to emissions reductions, and thus lower climate costs. In this paper we make two contributions to the literature. First, we study the market ... -
Eco-labels, production related externalities and trade
Greaker, Mads (Discussion Papers;No, 332, Working paper, 2002)Abstract: We analyze the trade and welfare effects of eco-labels in a domestic market with one domestic firm and one foreign firm. Pollution is production related, and the government can choose between including the product ... -
Emissions leakage and subsidies for pollution abatement. Pay the polluter or the supplier of the remedy?
Fischer, Carolyn; Greaker, Mads; Rosendahl, Knut Einar (Discussion papers;708, Working paper, 2012-10)Asymmetric regulation of a global pollutant between countries can alter the competitiveness of industries and lead to emissions leakage. For most types of pollution, abatement technologies are available for firms to produce ... -
Explaining experience curves for LNG liquefaction costs: Competition matter more than learning
Greaker, Mads; Sagen, Eirik Lund (Discussion Papers;No. 393, Working paper, 2004)Abstract: In this paper we seek to identify different driving forces behind the fall in LNG liquefaction unit costs. Our focus is on organizational learning including process specific R&D, but we also seek to account for ... -
From natural resources and environmental accounting to construction of indicators for sustainable development
Alfsen, Knut H.; Greaker, Mads (Discussion Papers;No. 478, Working paper, 2006)Abstract: Norway has a long history in trying to develop management tools for sustainable development. From the early development of natural resources accounts in the 1980’s, through discussions of the usefulness of ... -
Industrial competitiveness and diffusion of new pollution abatement technology – a new look at the Porter-hypothesis
Greaker, Mads (Discussion Papers;No. 371, Working paper, 2004)We study the relationship between industrial competitiveness, adaption of cleaner production techniques and environmental policy. While other contributions have analyzed environmental innovations with point of departure ... -
Internalizing negative environmental impacts from wind power production: Coasian bargaining, offsetting schemes and environmental taxes
Greaker, Mads; Hagem, Cathrine; Skulstad, Andreas (Discussion Paper;No. 994, Working paper, 2022-12)On the one hand, wind power production is necessary for decarbonizing the electricity sector. On the other hand, we risk replacing one environmental problem with other environmental problems, that is, stopping climate ... -
Lock-in and the transition to hydrogen cars. When should governments intervene?
Greaker, Mads; Heggedal, Tom-Reiel (Discussion Papers;No. 516, Working paper, 2007)Abstract: The density of fuel filling stations influences consumers' utility of private car transport. Thus, to the extent that different modes of private transport require different fuels, there may exist a network ... -
Optimal CO2 abatement and technological change : should emission taxes start high in order to spur R&D?
Greaker, Mads; Pade, Lise-Lotte (Discussion Papers;No. 548, Working paper, 2008)Abstract: Many European politicians argue that since technological development is needed to solve the climate problem, the EU should take the lead and set tougher emission targets than what is required by the Kyoto protocol. ... -
The resource rent in Norwegian aquaculture 1984-2020: Calculations applying the National Accounts
Greaker, Mads; Lindholt, Lars (Discussion Paper;No. 962, Working paper, 2021-08)Extraordinarily high returns in a sector based on the extraction of a natural resource can be referred to as resource rents. This study uses the National Accounts and the definitions of the System of Environmental-Economic ... -
Resource Rent in Norwegian Fisheries: Trends and policies
Grimsrud, Kristine; Lindholt, Lars; Greaker, Mads (Discussion papers;No. 827, Working paper, 2015-11)A nation’s natural-resources wealth can be estimated via the System of National Accounts (SNA). Because the values of all parameters entering the calculation are conditional on the existing management regime, the optimal ... -
Strategic climate policy in small, open economies
Greaker, Mads; Rosendahl, Knut Einar (Discussion Papers;No. 448, Working paper, 2006)Abstract: According to environmental interests groups governments should use their climate policy strategically in order to provide for a faster introduction of new, cleaner technologies. Strategic use of climate policy ... -
Strategic investment in climate friendly technologies: the impact of permit trade
Greaker, Mads; Hagem, Cathrine (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
Andersen, Jørgen Juel; Greaker, Mads (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 ... -
Vehicle-to-Grid: Impacts on the electricity market and consumer cost of electric vehicles
Greaker, Mads; Hagem, Cathrine; Proost, Stef (Discussion papers;903, Working paper, 2019-04)Higher battery storage capacity in electric vehicles (EV) can potentially serve two purposes: First, the larger the capacity, the less need for inconvenient recharging during long trips. Second, the larger the capacity, ...