This OECD paper is a review of literature on ex post empirical evaluations of the impacts of carbon prices on indicators of competitiveness as employed in the literature, including employment, output or exports, at different levels of aggregation.
In this paper we investigate a potential competitiveness-driven carbon leakage due to the European Union Emission Trading scheme (EU ETS)…
This paper estimates the welfare-optimal market share of wind and solar power, explicitly taking into account their output variability…
This OECD paper examines the macroeconomic and sectoral competitiveness and carbon leakage impacts associated with a range of stylised mitigation policy scenarios.
Would Border Carbon Adjustments prevent carbon leakage and heavy industry competitiveness losses ? Insights from a meta-analysis of recent economic studies / Frédéric Branger & Philippe Quirion. Paris : CIRED, September 2013, 26 p. (DT/WP No 2013-52) http://www.centre-cired.fr/IMG/pdf/CIREDWP-201352.pdf Authors’s abstract : The efficiency of unilateral climate policies...
The European Union Emissions Trading System (EU-ETS), presented as the “flagship’’ of European climate policy, is subject to many criticisms from different stakeholders. Criticisms include the insufficient carbon emissions reduction, the competitiveness losses and the induced carbon leakages, the unfair distributional effects, the frauds and the existence of several other overlapping climate policy instruments…
This backgrounder from RFFF researchers introduces competitiveness impacts, reviews the current literature on them, identifies the available data sources, and discusses potential limitations of research on competitiveness impacts…
This FEEM paper provides a review of the literature on competitiveness and leakage concerns associated with differentiated climate abatement commitments among countries
This CEPS report takes an in-depth look at the Europe 2020 strategy and the goals it sets for the EU, with the aim of shedding light on the question of whether the strategy will succeed in fostering the global competitiveness of the European Union… (© CEPS)
Countries which currently are, or are in the process of, implementing a national or regional cap and trade CO2 scheme are following alternatives routes in a number of ways: coverage, cap/target, allocation of allowances, measures to manage price volatility, offsets, measures to address competitiveness and leakage…
This Nuclear Energy Agency’s study assesses the competitiveness of nuclear power against coal- and gas-fired power generation in liberalised electricity markets with either CO2 trading or carbon taxes.
The following article reviews the different ways of defining and measuring the effects of environmental regulation on competition and market forces and synthesizes the most recent findings on the relationship between these dimensions…
New Economics Papers Energy Economics (REPEC)
