Reyer Gerlagh

Environmental Regulation and Industry Location (2009)

Mulatu, Abay, Gerlagh, Reyer, Rigby, Dan, Wossink, Ada

This paper estimates the effect of environmental regulation on industry location and compares it with other determinants of location such as agricultural, education and R&D country characteristics....

Environmental Regulation and Industry Location (2009)

Mulatu, Abay, Gerlagh, Reyer, Rigby, Dan, Wossink, Ada

This paper estimates the effect of environmental regulation on industry location and compares it with other determinants of location such as agricultural, education and R&D country characteristics....

Environmental Regulation and Industry Location (2009)

Mulatu, Abay, Gerlagh, Reyer, Rigby, Dan, Wossink, Ada

This paper estimates the effect of environmental regulation on industry location and compares it with other determinants of location such as agricultural, education and R&D country characteristics....

Environmental Regulation and Industry Location (2009)

Mulatu, Abay, Gerlagh, Reyer, Rigby, Dan, Wossink, Ada

This paper estimates the effect of environmental regulation on industry location and compares it with other determinants of location such as agricultural, education and R&D country characteristics....

Strategic Resource Dependence (2008)

Gerlagh, Reyer, Liski, Matti

We consider a situation where an exhaustible-resource seller faces demand from a buyer who has a perfect substitute but there is a time-to-build delay for the substitute. We that find in this simple...

Strategic Resource Dependence (2008)

Gerlagh, Reyer, Liski, Matti

We consider a situation where an exhaustible-resource seller faces demand from a buyer who has a perfect substitute but there is a time-to-build delay for the substitute. We that find in this simple...

Strategic Resource Dependence (2008)

Gerlagh, Reyer, Liski, Matti

We consider a situation where an exhaustible-resource seller faces demand from a buyer who has a perfect substitute but there is a time-to-build delay for the substitute. We that find in this simple...

Strategic Resource Dependence (2008)

Gerlagh, Reyer, Liski, Matti

We consider a situation where an exhaustible-resource seller faces demand from a buyer who has a perfect substitute but there is a time-to-build delay for the substitute. We that find in this simple...

Linking Environmental and Innovation Policy (2008)

Gerlagh, Reyer, Kverndokk, Snorre, Rosendahl, Knut Einar

This paper addresses the timing and interdependence between innovation and environmental policy in a model of research and development (R&D). On a first-best path the environmental tax is set at the...

Linking Environmental and Innovation Policy (2008)

Gerlagh, Reyer, Kverndokk, Snorre, Rosendahl, Knut Einar

This paper addresses the timing and interdependence between innovation and environmental policy in a model of research and development (R&D). On a first-best path the environmental tax is set at the...

Linking Environmental and Innovation Policy (2008)

Gerlagh, Reyer, Kverndokk, Snorre, Rosendahl, Knut Einar

This paper addresses the timing and interdependence between innovation and environmental policy in a model of research and development (R&D). On a first-best path the environmental tax is set at the...

Linking Environmental and Innovation Policy (2008)

Gerlagh, Reyer, Kverndokk, Snorre, Rosendahl, Knut Einar

This paper addresses the timing and interdependence between innovation and environmental policy in a model of research and development (R&D). On a first-best path the environmental tax is set at the...

The Economics of Geological CO2 Storage and Leakage (2008)

Van Der Zwaan, Bob, Gerlagh, Reyer

The economics of CO2 capture and storage in relation to the possibility of significant leakage of CO2 from geological reservoirs once this greenhouse gas has been stored artificially underground will...

The Economics of Geological CO2 Storage and Leakage (2008)

Van Der Zwaan, Bob, Gerlagh, Reyer

The economics of CO2 capture and storage in relation to the possibility of significant leakage of CO2 from geological reservoirs once this greenhouse gas has been stored artificially underground will...

The Economics of Geological CO2 Storage and Leakage (2008)

Van Der Zwaan, Bob, Gerlagh, Reyer

The economics of CO2 capture and storage in relation to the possibility of significant leakage of CO2 from geological reservoirs once this greenhouse gas has been stored artificially underground will...

The Economics of Geological CO2 Storage and Leakage (2008)

Van Der Zwaan, Bob, Gerlagh, Reyer

The economics of CO2 capture and storage in relation to the possibility of significant leakage of CO2 from geological reservoirs once this greenhouse gas has been stored artificially underground will...

Causes of corruption: a survey of cross-country analyses and extended results (2008)

Gerlagh, Reyer, Pellegrini, Lorenzo

We survey and assess the empirical literature on the sources of corruption Thanks to the improved availability of data, we are able to produce an improved cross-country econometric model to test...

Causes of corruption: a survey of cross-country analyses and extended results (2007)

Gerlagh, Reyer, Pellegrini, Lorenzo

We survey and assess the empirical literature on the sources of corruption Thanks to the improved availability of data, we are able to produce an improved cross-country econometric model to test...

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Escaping Lock-in: The Scope for a Transition Towards Sustainable Growth? (2007)

Reyer Gerlagh, Marjan W. Hofkes, Nota Di Lavoro, Fondazione Eni, Enrico Mattei

In this paper we develop a simple endogenous growth model with two competing production technologies and learning spillover effects between firms that use the same technology. Investments are...

Carbon Leakage with International Technology Spillovers (2007)

Gerlagh, Reyer, Kuik, Onno

In this paper we study the effect of international technology spillovers on carbon leakage. We first develop and analyse two simple competing models for carbon leakage. The first model represents the...

Optimal Timing of Environmental Policy; Interaction Between Environmental Taxes and Innovation Externalities (2007)

Gerlagh, Reyer, Kverndokk, Snorre, Rosendahl, Knut Einar

This paper addresses the impact of endogenous technology through research and development (R&D) and learning by doing (LbD) on the timing of environmental policy. We develop two models, the first...

Carbon Leakage with International Technology Spillovers (2007)

Gerlagh, Reyer, Kuik, Onno

In this paper we study the effect of international technology spillovers on carbon leakage. We first develop and analyse two simple competing models for carbon leakage. The first model represents the...

Optimal Timing of Environmental Policy; Interaction Between Environmental Taxes and Innovation Externalities (2007)

Gerlagh, Reyer, Kverndokk, Snorre, Rosendahl, Knut Einar

This paper addresses the impact of endogenous technology through research and development (R&D) and learning by doing (LbD) on the timing of environmental policy. We develop two models, the first...

Carbon Leakage with International Technology Spillovers (2007)

Gerlagh, Reyer, Kuik, Onno

In this paper we study the effect of international technology spillovers on carbon leakage. We first develop and analyse two simple competing models for carbon leakage. The first model represents the...

Optimal Timing of Environmental Policy; Interaction Between Environmental Taxes and Innovation Externalities (2007)

Gerlagh, Reyer, Kverndokk, Snorre, Rosendahl, Knut Einar

This paper addresses the impact of endogenous technology through research and development (R&D) and learning by doing (LbD) on the timing of environmental policy. We develop two models, the first...

Carbon Leakage with International Technology Spillovers (2007)

Gerlagh, Reyer, Kuik, Onno

In this paper we study the effect of international technology spillovers on carbon leakage. We first develop and analyse two simple competing models for carbon leakage. The first model represents the...

Optimal Timing of Environmental Policy; Interaction Between Environmental Taxes and Innovation Externalities (2007)

Gerlagh, Reyer, Kverndokk, Snorre, Rosendahl, Knut Einar

This paper addresses the impact of endogenous technology through research and development (R&D) and learning by doing (LbD) on the timing of environmental policy. We develop two models, the first...

Redistributing environmental tax revenue to reduce poverty in South Africa : the cases of energy and water (2006)

Blignaut, James Nelson, Mabugu, Margaret, Gerlagh, Reyer, Hess, Sebastiaan, Tol, Richard S.J., ...

South Africa, as an upper middle-income, resource-intensive developing country with an open economy, has to find innovative ways to combat poverty, promote economic growth and reduce the intensity of...

Redistributing environmental tax revenue to reduce poverty in South Africa : the cases of energy and water (2006)

Blignaut, James Nelson, Mabugu, Margaret, Gerlagh, Reyer, Hess, Sebastiaan, Tol, Richard S.J., ...

South Africa, as an upper middle-income, resource-intensive developing country with an open economy, has to find innovative ways to combat poverty, promote economic growth and reduce the intensity of...

Searching for triple dividends in South Africa : fighting CO2 pollution and poverty while promoting growth (2006)

Gerlagh, Reyer, Blignaut, James Nelson, Horridge, Mark, Hess, Sebastiaan, Mabugu, Ramos, ...

A CGE model of South Africa is used to find the potential for a double or triple dividend if the revenues raised from an energy-related environmental tax are recycled to households and industry...

Searching for triple dividends in South Africa : fighting CO2 pollution and poverty while promoting growth (2006)

Gerlagh, Reyer, Blignaut, James Nelson, Horridge, Mark, Hess, Sebastiaan, Mabugu, Ramos, ...

A CGE model of South Africa is used to find the potential for a double or triple dividend if the revenues raised from an energy-related environmental tax are recycled to households and industry...

A Climate-Change Policy Induced Shift from Innovations in Energy Production to Energy Savings

Reyer Gerlagh

We develop an endogenous growth model with capital, labor and energy as production factors and three productivity variables that measure accumulated innovations for energy production, energy savings,...

Time Profile of Climate Change Stabilization Policy

Reyer Gerlagh, Marjan W. Hofkes

We develop an economic model for fossil-fuel and carbon-free energy supply and demand with capital and labor as production factors, and endogenous technological change through learning by research...

An Empirical Contribution to the Debate on Corruption,Democracy and Environmental Policy

Lorenzo Pellegrini, Reyer Gerlagh

Both theoretical and empirical studies have shown that democracy and corruption have substantial influence on environmental policy. In this paper, we empirically analyse whether both democracy and...

The Value of ITC under Climate Stabilization

Reyer Gerlagh

We assess the effect of ITC in a global growth model, DEMETER-1CCS, with learning by doing where energy savings, an energy transition, and carbon capturing and sequestration (CCS) are the main...

Institutional Explanations of Economic Development: the Role of Precious Metals

Elissaios Papyrakis, Reyer Gerlagh

Recent research has emphasized the influence of colonization on the institutional development and economic performance in former European colonies. Where European colonizers settled, they replicated...

Carbon Leakage with International Technology Spillovers

Reyer Gerlagh, Onno Kuik

In this paper we study the effect of international technology spillovers on carbon leakage. We first develop and analyse two simple competing models for carbon leakage. The first model represents the...

Optimal Timing of Environmental Policy; Interaction Between Environmental Taxes and Innovation Externalities

Reyer Gerlagh, Snorre Kverndokk, Knut Einar Rosendahl

This paper addresses the impact of endogenous technology through research and development (R&D) and learning by doing (LbD) on the timing of environmental policy. We develop two models, the first...

Natural Resources, Innovation, and Growth

Elissaios Papyrakis, Reyer Gerlagh

This paper investigates the connection between resource abundance and innovation, as a transmission mechanism that can elucidate part of the resource curse hypothesis; i.e. the observed negative...

Impacts of CO2-Taxes in an Economy with Niche Markets and Learning-by-Doing

Reyer Gerlagh, Marjan Hofkes, Ger Klaassen

In this paper, we analyse the impact of carbon taxes on emission levels, when niche markets exist for new carbon-free technologies, and when these technologies experience ``learning-by-doing''...

Corruption's Effect on Growth and its Transmission Channels

Lorenzo Pellegrini, Reyer Gerlagh

Un résultat partagéà la fois par la littérature théorique et empirique est que la corruption a un effet négatif sur la croissance économique. Dans cet article, nous estimons les effets directs...

Induced Technological Change under Technology Competition

Reyer Gerlagh

We develop a partial one-sector model with capital, natural resources, and labor as production factors, and endogenous technological change through research. Production exhibits increasing returns to...

Natural Resources: A Blessing or a Curse?

Elissaios Papyrakis, Reyer Gerlagh

We examine empirically the effect of natural resource abundance on economic growth. We find that natural resources have a negative impact on growth when considered in isolation, but a positive impact...

Induced Technological Change Under Carbon Taxes

Reyer Gerlagh, Wietze Lise

We develop an economic partial equilibrium model for energy supply and demand with capital and labor as production factors, and endogenous technological change through learning by research and...

Resource-Abundance and Economic Growth in the U.S.

Elissaios Papyrakis, Reyer Gerlagh

It is a common assumption that regions within the same country converge to approximately the same steady-state income levels. The so-called absolute convergence hypothesis focuses on initial income...

Natural Resources, Investment and Long-Term Income

Dlisraios Papyrakis, Reyer Gerlagh

We study the negative correlation between natural resource-abundance and long-term income focusing on the savings-investment channel. We first present empirical evidence on this channel and then...

Climate Uncertainty and the Necessity to Transform Global Energy Supply

Reyer Gerlagh

This paper analyses the policy relevance of the dominant uncertainties in our current scientific understanding of the terrestrial climate system, and provides further evidence for the need to...

Are EU Environmental Policies Too Demanding for New Members States?

Lorenzo Pellegrini, Reyer Gerlagh

In 2004, ten new states entered the European Union. Relative to the pre-2004 member states, these accession states have lower environmental standards, and some worry that it will be too demanding for...

The Economics of Geological CO2 Storage and Leakage

Reyer Gerlagh

The economics of CO2 capture and storage in relation to the possibility of significant leakage of CO2 from geological reservoirs once this greenhouse gas has been stored artificially underground will...

Linking Environmental and Innovation Policy

Reyer Gerlagh, Snorre Kverndokk, Knut Einar Rosendah

This paper addresses the timing and interdependence between innovation and environmental policy in a model of research and development (R&D). On a first-best path the environmental tax is set at the...

Causes of corruption: a survey of cross-country analyses and extended results

Lorenzo Pellegrini, Reyer Gerlagh

Corruption, Ethnolinguistic fractionalization, Democracy, Political instability, D72, H11, H50, K42, O17,

Strategic Resource Dependence

Reyer Gerlagh, Matti Liski

We consider a situation where an exhaustible-resource seller faces demand from a buyer who has a perfect substitute but there is a time-to-build delay for the substitute. We that find in this simple...

Linking Environmental and Innovation Policy

Gerlagh , Reyer, Kverndokk, Snorre, Rosendahl, Knut Einar

This paper addresses the timing and interdependence between innovation and environmental policy in a model of research and development (R&D). On a first-best path the environmental tax is set at the...

Optimal Timing of Environmental Policy: Interaction Between Environmental Taxes and Innovation Externalities

Gerlagh , Reyer, Kverndokk , Snorre, Rosendahl , Knut Einar

This paper addresses the impact of endogenous technology through research and development (R&D) and learning by doing (LbD) on the timing of environmental policy. We develop two models, the first...

Environmental Regulation and Industry Location

Abay Mulatu, Reyer Gerlagh, Dan Rigby, Ada Wossink

This paper estimates the effect of environmental regulation on industry location and compares it with other determinants of location such as agricultural, education and R&D country characteristics....

Optimal Timing of Climate Change Policy: Interaction Between Carbon Taxes and Innovation Externalities

Reyer Gerlagh, Snorre Kverndokk, Knut Rosendahl

Climate change, Environmental policy, Technological change, Research and development, H21, O30, Q42,

ITC in a Global Growth-Climate Model with CCS: The Value of Induced Technical Change for Climate Stabilization

Reyer Gerlagh

We assess the effect of ITC in a global growth model, Ð DEMETER-1CCS Ð with learning-by-doing, where energy savings, energy transition and carbon capturing and sequestration (CCS) are the three...

Trade Liberalization and Carbon Leakage

Onno Kuik, Reyer Gerlagh

This paper examines the effect of trade liberalization on carbon leakage. We present quantitative estimates of carbon leakage under the Kyoto Protocol with and without freer trade by means of import...

Options and Instruments for a Deep Cut in CO2 Emissions: Carbon Dioxide Capture or Renewables, Taxes or Subsidies?

Reyer Gerlagh

This paper compares both the main physical options and the principal policy instruments to realize a deep cut in carbon dioxide emissions necessary to control global climate change. A top-down...

Searching for Triple Dividends in South Africa: Fighting CO2 Pollution and Poverty while Promoting Growth

Jan Van Heerden, Reyer Gerlagh, James Blignaut, Mark Horridge, Sebastiaan Hess, Ramos Mabugu, ...

A CGE model of South Africa is used to find the potential for a double or triple dividend if the revenues raised from an energy-related environmental tax are recycled to households and industry...