All pages with keywords: carbon prices
The competitiveness impact of a UK carbon price: what do the data say?
This paper explores the potential impact of a uniform £20 per tonne carbon price on fuels and production costs across all 106 industries that comprise the UK economy. read more »
Asymmetric industrial energy prices and international trade
This paper measures the response of bilateral trade flows to differences in industrial energy prices across countries. Using a rich panel dataset with 42 countries, 62 manufacturing sectors over 16 … read more »
New study concludes increases in energy costs are unlikely to have much effect on European businesses and trade
A large increase in energy prices in the European Union would have only a very small effect on exports by European industry and the balance of trade, according to a new academic paper published today (2 March 2015) read more »
Confronting Climate Change: Economics, Fairness and Political Feasibility
How can climate change policies be designed to be not only environmentally effective but also cost-effective and fair? How can they be made more acceptable politically? Professor Lawrence H. Goulder’s … read more »
What is a carbon price and why do we need one?
A carbon price is a cost applied to carbon pollution to encourage polluters to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas they emit into the atmosphere. Economists widely agree that introducing … read more »
Staying with the leaders: Europe’s path to a successful low-carbon economy
Neuhoff, K., Acworth, W., Dechezleprêtre, A., Dröge, S., Sartor, O., Sato, M., Schleicher, S., and Schopp, A. 2014. Climate Strategies. Berlin, Germany and London, UK.
Energy use policies and carbon pricing in the UK
Energy use policies and carbon pricing in the UK read more »
A macroeconomic perspective on climate change mitigation: Meeting the financing challenge
– Forthcoming in Climate Change Economics (August 2014) (read article) Transitioning to a low-carbon economy will require significant investment to transform energy systems, alter the built … read more »
Economic instruments for climate change
Reference Meckling, J., and Hepburn, C. 2013. Economic instruments for climate change. In: The Handbook of Global Climate and Environment Policy (Falkner, R. [ed.]). Wiley-Blackwell.
The treatment of risk and uncertainty in the US Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis
This note considers the treatment of risk and uncertainty in the recently established ‘social cost of carbon’ (SCC) for analysis of federal regulations in the United States. It argues … read more »
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