GHG mitigation schemes and energy policies: A model-based assessment for the Italian economy

Annicchiarico, Barbara; Battles, Susan; Dio, Fabio Di; Molina, Pierfrancesco; Zoppoli, Pietro

doi:10.1016/j.econmod.2016.12.028

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“…Moreover, while the existing literature has primarily focused on the macro-level impacts of environmental regulations on firms' emission costs (Zhang et al, 2016), it is important to also consider the micro-level impacts of regulations on individual firms. Studies such as those by Pereira et al (2016), Annicchiarico et al (2017), and Ayu (2018) have used total carbon emissions to investigate carbon tax policy and economic policy. While macrolevel data provides valuable insights into the relationship between environmental regulations and firms' emissions costs, micro-level analysis can offer a more detailed understanding of how firms respond to regulations, how their costs change, and the factors that influence their decisions.…”

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Heterogeneity of environmental protection law’s impact on firms’ pollutant discharge

Shan

Gao

2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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In 2015, China revised its Environmental Protection Law to strengthen regulations on firms’ pollution discharge. However, the efficacy of this law in protecting the environment remains unclear. Using panel data from China’s listed firms spanning from 2010 to 2020, this paper applies the continuous difference model to analyze the impact of the Environmental Protection Law on firms’ pollutant emissions. The results demonstrate a significant and consistent reduction in both total pollutant emissions and pollutant emissions per outcome for firms due to the implementation of the Environmental Protection Law. Additionally, the study indicates a significant reduction in pollutant emissions among firms that did not receive environmental protection subsidies, state-owned enterprises, and firms without prior environmental pollution behaviors. The findings also suggest a two-year lag for the Environmental Protection Law to impact firms’ pollution emissions per outcome. These results carry important practical implications for the government’s efforts to transform environmental protection policies and for firms seeking to enhance their environmental performance.

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Section: Of Firmsmentioning

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Heterogeneity of environmental protection law’s impact on firms’ pollutant discharge

Shan

Gao

2023

Front. Environ. Sci.

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“…Each approach employs a specific set of assumptions and modelling methodologies, and consequently yields results specific to its approach (IPCC, 2001). Top-down modelling evaluates an energy system from a long-term and "energy-system wide" perspective (which includes not just electricity but a vector of energy carriers and related environmental impacts of energy use) (see e.g., Henry Chen et al, 2016;Annicchiarico et al, 2016). They are most often used to understand possible energy and climate "pathways" under various assumptions and scenarios about economic growth, technology evolution, climate and environmental policy objectives.…”

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A Unit Commitment and Economic Dispatch Model of the Gb Electricity Market – Formulation and Application to Hydro Pumped Storage

Chyong

Newbery

2022

SSRN Journal

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“…It captures the heterogeneity in income and consumption patterns by considering five differentiated household groups. Conceptually and thematically this approach is related to the recent contributions of, for example, Jorgenson et al (2015), Bhattarai et al (2016), Williams (2016), Annicchiarico et al (2017), and Kirchner et al (2019).…”

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Picking Our Environmental Battles: Removal of Harmful Subsidies or Carbon Taxation?

Pereira¹,

Pereira²

2021

JEPF

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In this paper, we compare the effects of removing harmful fossil fuel subsidies with the replacement of the energy taxation by a carbon tax in Portugal. Since energy taxes focus on the energy content of the different energy products eliminating these provisions only brings their prices in line with their energy content. On the other hand, replacing the energy tax system with a tax on the emissions content of the energy products aligns the fossil fuel prices with their emissions content. We show that while replacing the energy with a carbon tax is a policy of a magnitude about eight times as large as the removal of the harmful subsidies, the effects of emissions are twenty times larger and the adverse economic and distributional effects only about twice as large. Accordingly, replacing the energy tax with a carbon tax is a much more cost-effective way of reducing emissions. This may suggest that focusing on the removal of harmful fossil fuel subsidies may be an environmental red herring.

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GHG mitigation schemes and energy policies: A model-based assessment for the Italian economy

Cited by 16 publications

References 19 publications

Heterogeneity of environmental protection law’s impact on firms’ pollutant discharge

Heterogeneity of environmental protection law’s impact on firms’ pollutant discharge

A Unit Commitment and Economic Dispatch Model of the Gb Electricity Market – Formulation and Application to Hydro Pumped Storage

Picking Our Environmental Battles: Removal of Harmful Subsidies or Carbon Taxation?

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