This article reviews the empirical literature on the impacts of environmental regulations on
firms' competitiveness as measured by trade, industry location, employment, productivity …

Stabilizing greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations will require large-scale transformations in
human societies, from the way that we produce and consume energy to how we use the land …

The allowance mechanism is one of the core and sensitive aspects in the design of a carbon
emissions trading scheme and affects the compliance cost for each entity covered under the …

Abstract Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) and carbon emission trading (CET) system
are the top-level system design of China's energy low-carbon transformation, which have …

An increasing number of recently built, high-efficiency combined-cycle gas turbine (CCGT)
power plants, are being mothballed or prematurely closed across the European Union as …

We analyze the energy market and ETS outcomes in Kazakhstan, a major fossil-fuel
exporter. The energy market was characterized by the presence of large state-owned …

Since power utilities were originally grandfathered into the EU ETS by way of a free
allocation of carbon emission allowances (EUA), the issue of windfall profits accruing to …

It is well known that discontinuous jumps or thresholds in tax or subsidies are socially
inefficient, because they create incentives to make strategic behavioral changes that lead to …

An increasing share of variable renewable energy sources (VREs) basically affects the
electricity price formation in two ways:(1) The so-called merit order effect tends to lower the …

The synergistic effect of pollution and carbon reduction can alleviate the dual pressure of
improving environmental quality and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in China. The …