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Trade Policy: Home Market Effect vs Terms of Trade Externality

We study trade policy in a two-sector Krugman-type trade model with home market effects. We allow for three different instruments: tariffs, export taxes and production subsidies. For each instrument, we consider unilateral trade policy without retaliation. ...

Center for Fiscal Policy Working Paper Series2009

Voting on the Environment: Price or Ideology? Evidence from Swiss Referendums

Nicholas Bornstein

Studies on preferences for environmental quality usually posit that price and income explain most of the observed choices. However, we argue that conceptions of social norms and the common good are equally important when analyzing environmental voting outc ...

2008

Gradual Introduction of Coercive Instruments in Climate Policy

Philippe Thalmann, Andrea Baranzini

Acceptance is the key problem of carbon taxes. This chapter is about acceptance building, ie devising a mechanism for the gradual preparation of the population and the economy in order to implement a carbon tax. It draws on experiences in Switzerland, wher ...

2008

The feasibility of a world-wide tax on anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases: Levels and impacts of world-wide taxes on greenhouse gases

Philippe Thalmann, Marc Vielle

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 ...

2007

Tenure neutral and equitable housing taxation

Philippe Thalmann

Equity and neutrality are distinct concepts in housing taxation and weak and strong tenure neutrality should be distinguished. When a tax system is tested for those criteria, the taxes paid by landlords must be included, as they affect the rents renters pa ...

2007

Environomic modeling and multi-objective optimisation of integrated energy systems for power and cogeneration

Hongtao Li

Current and future dynamics, of environmental legislations and trading market, of the fuel and electricity prices due to the market liberalization or resource shortages, and of the innovations of power/cogeneration technologies, impose great challenges on ...

EPFL2006

What works and what doesn't with BOT contracts? The case of thermal and hydraulic plants

Matthias Finger, Nicolas Crettenand

Private financing and operations of public infrastructures – often also called Public-Private Partnerships or PPPs – are becoming increasingly important, especially in the case of developing countries. Different types of PPP instruments – among which in pa ...

EPFL-CDM-MIR2005

The public acceptance of green taxes

Philippe Thalmann

In September 2000, 4.7 million Swiss citizens were invited to vote on three proposals for taxes on fossil energy. They differed by tax rate and mode of revenue recycling. All three were rejected, one by only 3.4%. I analyze the votes using individual data ...

2004

Multi-Criteria Optimization of Pulverized Fuel Coal-Fired Power Generation System Load Dispatching

François Maréchal, Daniel Favrat, Hongtao Li, Meinrad Bürer

With a given power demand pattern supplied by a set of pulverized fuel coal- fired (PC) power generation units at various locations, different power dispatching solutions will result in different fuel consumptions, CO2 emissions, and power generation costs ...

2003

Multi-Criteria Optimization of a Heat Pump Based District Heating System in the City of Beijing

Daniel Favrat, Hongtao Li, Meinrad Bürer

A more widespread usage of heat pumps would contribute to significantly reduce both local and global environmental impacts. This is particularly relevant within cities, where advanced integrated energy systems incorporating heat pumps and associated with d ...

2002

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