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Efficiency, Compensation, and Discrimination: What is at Stake When Implementing the EU Emissions Trading Scheme?

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  • Böhringer, Christoph
  • Lange, Andreas

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In 2005, an EU-wide emissions trading scheme covering major CO2 producing sites shall come into power. The key objective of the trading scheme is to promote cost-efficiency of carbon reduction within the EU. We identify policy-relevant tradeoffs between overall efficiency, compensation and competitive neutrality which arise in the concrete implementation of the EU emissions trading scheme through National Allocation Plans.

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  • Böhringer, Christoph & Lange, Andreas, 2003. "Efficiency, Compensation, and Discrimination: What is at Stake When Implementing the EU Emissions Trading Scheme?," ZEW Discussion Papers 03-73, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
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    Keywords

    emissions trading; allowance allocation; competition; National Allocation Plans; computable general equilibrium;
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    JEL classification:

    • D58 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Computable and Other Applied General Equilibrium Models
    • H21 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
    • H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies

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