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This paper describes the methodology used to transform the 2001 Swiss SAM devised at ETH Zürich and align it to the requirements of the GEMINI-E3 model which is based on the GTAP database. ...
This report collects two studies hat have been performed in the Research group on the Economics and Management of the Environment of EPFL to assess the Swiss post-Kyoto climate policy with a focus on the residential sector. We couple two existing top-down ...
Some commentators claim that the oil market has achieved within a few months what international bureaucrats have struggled to obtain in a decade of international climate negotiations. The fallacy of the oil price argument is that substitutions and income e ...
A Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) can be interpreted as a complete description of the entire market transactions of commodities and primary factors made by the agents within an economy. A SAM describes also the transfers of revenues between agents (for exam ...
This report presents the conjoint work carrying out by Laurent Drouet and Marc Vielle (the GEMINI-E3 team, REME) and Maryse Labriet and Richard Loulou (the ETSAP-TIMES, KANLO team) in order to build a master program which drives the coupling of the top-dow ...
A harmonized worldwide carbon tax, implemented at regional or national level, can be enforced only with an international collective action which takes into account inherent interests of all countries. The purpose of this study is to assess the impact ofthe ...
In this technical report we describe a scenario designed by the "Office fédérale de l’environnement" (Mr Romero), this scenario is detailed in table 1. In this scenario we assume that a carbon tax 1 USD2001 per ton of CO2 (i.e. 3.66 USD per ton of carbon) ...
This paper deals with the modeling of the strategic allocation of greenhouse gases emission allowances in the EU-wide trading market that results from Kyoto agreement implementation. An M-matrix game is formulated where the players are countries or groups ...
The purpose of this paper is to assess and compare regional welfare costs associated with alternative multi-gas strategies for a stabilization of global greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions in the long run. Mitigation costs of non-CO2 greenhouse gases are inte ...
This report computes the magnitudes of carbon taxes that would be needed to meet strong CO2 emissions reductions targets in Switzerland by 2020 and 2050. It also assesses the economic impacts of meeting those targets through carbon taxes. The analysis is b ...
