Since the financial crisis in 2008, slow growth has riddled Europe and the COVID‐19
pandemic is amplifying the challenge. Promoting economic growth and transforming to a …

Limiting global warming in line with the goals in the Paris Agreement will require substantial
technological and behavioural transformations. This challenge drives many of the current …

In this article, we analyse the wider economic impacts (WEI) of a large number of planned
Norwegian transport infrastructure projects. WEI are welfare effects caused by imperfections …

Indirect taxes such as value added taxes (VAT) generate a substantial part of tax revenue in
many countries. In practice, VAT systems are often characterized by exemptions, reduced …

One of many explanations for Environmental Kuznets Curves for rich countries can be that
dirty production is relocated to economies with laxer abatement regimes. If this is caused by …

Publicly announced greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation targets and emissions pricing
strategies by individual governments may suffer from inherent commitment problems. When …

Welfare analyses of energy taxes typically show that systems with uniform rates perform
better than differentiated systems, especially if revenue can be recycled by cutting taxes that …

Forest sector models are widely used for policy and economic analyses. Basic assumptions
vary considerably between models, but little attention has been paid to the impacts these …

In rich economies emissions of many pollutants tend to grow at a slower rate than GDP. This
could be a result of shifting comparative advantages. If so, net imports of dirty products to …

Backcasting is a widely used method that first envisions future desirable goals and thereafter
identifies the necessary steps to reach that state. A recent report released by a large group …