Format:
1 online resource (342 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780199570683
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9780191571428
Content:
This book offers an extensive analysis of carbon-energy taxation that addresses the interplay between carbon-energy taxation and emissions trading, as well as the implications for future international climate policy
Note:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Part I. Pricing of Carbon in Europe -- 1. Carbon-Energy Taxation, Revenue Recycling, and Competitiveness -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. The Porter hypothesis on the relationship between environmental regulation and competitiveness -- 1.3. The double dividend debate -- 1.4. What kind of efficiency are we talking about? -- 1.5. Conventional indicators of competitiveness -- 1.6. The need to account for technology and innovation -- 1.7. Coverage of the book -- 2. Design of Environmental Tax Reforms in Europe -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Denmark -- 2.3. Finland -- 2.4. Germany -- 2.5. The Netherlands -- 2.6. Slovenia -- 2.7. Sweden -- 2.8. UK -- 2.9. Conclusions -- Part II. Industry-Sector Competitiveness -- 3. Assessing Vulnerability of Selected Sectors under Environmental Tax Reform: The Issue of Pricing Power -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Context -- 3.3. Literature review and price-setting model -- 3.4. Data -- 3.5. Results -- 3.6. Discussion of results by sector -- 3.7. Implications -- 3.8. Summary and conclusions -- 4. Trends in the Competitiveness of Selected Industrial Sectors in ETR Countries -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Theoretical assessment of competitiveness indicators -- 4.3. Empirical assessment of competitiveness trends -- 4.4. Conclusions -- 5. The Impact of Energy Taxes on Competitiveness: A Panel Regression Study of 56 European Industry Sectors -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Modelling the Porter effects associated with energy taxes -- 5.3. Data and method -- 5.4. The relation between energy taxes, competitiveness, and output -- 5.5. Interpretation of results -- 5.6. Conclusions -- 6. Energy-Intensive Industries: Approaches to Mitigation and Compensation -- 6.1. Introduction
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6.2. Ex-ante mitigation: tax-base modifications and reductions in tax rates -- 6.3. Ex-post compensation: revenue recycling approach -- 6.4. Winners and losers in ETR -- 6.5. Conclusions -- Part III. Country Competitiveness and Carbon Leakage -- 7. The Effects of Environmental Tax Reform on International Competitiveness in the European Union: Modelling with E3ME -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Modelling the EU Energy-Environment-Economy System with E3ME -- 7.3. Processing the COMETR tax data -- 7.4. Scenarios specified to model ETR -- 7.5. Estimation of competitiveness effects -- 7.6. The effects of selected ETRs, using E3ME, 1995-2012 -- 8. Carbon Leakage from Unilateral Environmental Tax Reforms in Europe, 1995-2005 -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. The literature on carbon leakage -- 8.3. Modelling carbon leakage -- 8.4. Description of ETR policies and carbon leakage scenarios -- 8.5. Results -- 8.6. Conclusions -- Part IV. Implications for Future Climate Policy -- 9. Carbon Taxes and Emissions Trading: Issues and Interactions -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. Emissions trading -- 9.3. Competitiveness implications of emissions trading -- 9.4. Carbon taxes and emissions trading -- 9.5. The interactions between taxes and trading -- 9.6. Carbon taxes and emissions trading in the EU -- 10. Conclusions: Europe's Lessons from Carbon-Energy Taxation -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. Avoiding dangerous climate change -- 10.3. Greenhouse gas reductions: the role of carbon-energy taxation and emissions trading -- 10.4. The economic dimension of the competitiveness debate: market shares and unit energy costs -- 10.5. The environmental dimension of the competitiveness debate: carbon leakage -- 10.6. Coping with the dual challenge of GHG stabilization and international competitiveness -- Annex -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O.
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P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
Additional Edition:
Print version Andersen, Mikael Skou Carbon-Energy Taxation Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2010 ISBN 9780199570683
Language:
English
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