Publications of the Research Unit Environmental and Climate Economics

  1. Refereed Journal // 2011

    The future of U.S. natural gas production, use, and trade

    Two computable general equilibrium models, one global and the other providing U.S. regional detail, are applied to analysis of the future of U.S. natural gas. The focus is on uncertainties including the scale…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2011

    Distributional Impacts of Carbon Pricing: A General Equilibrium Approach with Micro-Data for Households

    Many policies to limit greenhouse gas emissions have at their core efforts to put a price on carbon emissions. Carbon pricing impacts households both by raising the cost of carbon intensive products and by…

  3. Discussion and Working Paper // 2011

    What to Expect from Sectoral Trading, a US-China Example

    In recent United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations, sectoral mechanisms were proposed as a way to encourage early action and spur investment in low carbon technologies in…

  4. Discussion and Working Paper // 2011

    Sectoral Trading between the EU-ETS and Emerging Countries

    In international negotiations on climate change, sectoral trading has been proposed as a way to encourage investment in low carbon technologies in developing countries. In the main report(MIT Joint Program…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2011

    What to Expect from Sectoral Trading, a US-China Example

    In the recent United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations, sectoral trading was proposed to encourage early action and spur investment in low carbon technologies in developing…

  6. Refereed Journal // 2011

    Anstieg der Lohnungleichheit, Rückgang der Tarifbindung und Polarisierung

    This article aims at describing and discussing the development of wage inequality in Germany in relation to the decline in collective wage bargaining, as this could be the institutional cause for the development…

  7. Refereed Journal // 2011

    Second-Order Sensitivity in Applied General Equilibrium

    In most policy applications of general equilibrium modeling, cost functions are calibrated to benchmark data. Modelers often choose the functional form for cost functions based on suitability for numerical…

  8. Refereed Journal // 2011

    An integral evaluation of dieselisation policies for households' cars

    Reducing energy consumption and CO2 emissions in the transport sector is a priority for Great Britain and other European countries as part of their agreements made in the Kyoto protocol and the Voluntary…

  9. Discussion and Working Paper // 2011

    Military spending and economic growth: the case of Iran

    Iranian government budget on military over the last decade has been higher than the average of the world. The current increasing international sanctions aim to reduce the military capabilities and capacities of…