We investigate policies for increasing recycling to facilitate decarbonization within the basic material sector, including market-based policies, such as carbon pricing, advanced disposal fee and minimum recycled content requirement, and non-market policies, such as product design standard. We develop an analytical model to assess the role of these policy instruments for recycling related choices of ...
Several empirical studies document the relevance of firm heterogeneity to assess the effect of trade and environmental policy. This paper develops a multi-country and -sector general equilibrium trade model with heterogeneous firms and analyzes the effect of domestic carbon pricing as well as carbon border adjustments. In the presence of heterogeneous firms, these unilateral carbon pricing tools affect ...
Viel versprochen, wenig gehalten: Die Geschichte des Weltwirtschaftsforums (WEF) in Davos ist auch eine der leeren Absichtserklärungen. In diesem Jahr bietet sich dem WEF in Davos aber eine historische Chance, urteilt Ökonomin Claudia Kemfert - sie muss sie nur ergreifen. Das kommende Weltwirtschaftsforum ist das 54. Treffen von namhaften Regierungs- und Wirtschaftsvertretern in der Welt. Über 60 Staats- ...
This paper estimates the effect of home high-speed internet on national test scores of students at age 14. We combine comprehensive information on the telecom network, administrative student records, house prices and local amenities in England in a fuzzy spatial regression discontinuity design across invisible telephone exchange catchment areas. Using this strategy, we find that increasing broadband ...