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• The costs of climate policies in a second best world with labour market imperfections

  This article explores the critical role of labour market imperfections in climate stabilisation costs formation. It shows that the degree of rigidity of the labour markets is a central parameter and we conduct a systematic sensitivity analysis of the model results to this parameter.

  • 01/09/2009

  • CIRED
  • • Carbon Tax
    • Climate Change
    • Economy
    • Climate Mitigation
    • Workers
    • Unemployment

• What if energy decoupling of emerging economies were not so spontaneous?: an illustrative example on India

  Reference GHG emissions scenarios are critical for estimates of the costs of stabilization and for climate policy recommendations.

  • 01/02/2009

  • CIRED
  • • Carbon Dioxide
    • Climate Change
    • Green House Gases
    • Energy Efficiency
    • Energy
    • Electricity
    • Economic Development
    • India

• The resilience of the Indian economy to rising oil prices as a validation test for a global energy-environment-economy CGE model

  This paper proposes to test the global hybrid computable general equilibrium model IMACLIM-R against macroeconomic data. To do so, it compares the modeled and observed responses of the Indian economy to the rise of oil price during the 2003-2006 period.

  • 01/09/2008

  • CIRED
  • • Environment
    • Energy
    • Oil
    • India
    • Global
    • Economy