Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/3418 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 2004,136
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
Marginal abatement cost curves (MACCs) are one of the favorite instruments to analyze the impacts of the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol and emissions trading. As shown in this paper one important factor that influences MACCs are energy prices. This leads to the question of how to define MACCs in a general equilibrium context where the overall abatement level world wide influences energy prices and thus national MACCs. We first discuss the mechanisms theoretically and then use the CGE model DART to quantify the effects. The result is, that changes in energy prices resulting from different world wide abatement levels do indeed affect the national MACCs. Also, we compare different possibilities of defining MACCs - of which some turn out to be robust against changes in energy prices while others vary considerably.
Subjects: 
Marginal abatement cost
Energy price
Computable general equilibrium model
Climate change
JEL: 
C68
D58
F18
Q41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
653.53 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.