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If the global business elite is serious about action on climate change, it should advocate for an international agreement to impose a carbon
price
on conventional jet fuel, whether via an explicit tax or through a green-fuel mandate requiring a gradually rising proportion of zero-carbon bio or synthetic fuel.
Governments must therefore focus explicitly on the pace of total
price
rises.
France’s possible 23% increase in diesel prices in only 15 months should have been interpreted as a political red flag; effective climate change policy does not require such rapid
price
increases.
That protection comes at a price: if not a loss of civility, then certainly of urban mobility, as cars clog the roads.
Just as we have no global tax mechanism to ensure the provision of global public goods, we have no global monetary or welfare policies to maintain
price
stability and social peace.
While the
price
of solar panels has fallen by more than half in the last few years, even a $150 entry-level package remains far beyond the means of someone living on less than $2.50 a day.
In Germany, the Renewable Energy Act guarantees a feed-in tariff for 20 years and mandates the grid operator to purchase all the electricity a wind farm can produce at the guaranteed
price.
The single most important institutional reform underlying
price
stability throughout the world has been the stronger independence of central banks.
Tackling nearly 100% of today’s malaria problem would cost just one-sixtieth of the
price
of the Kyoto Protocol.
Moreover, the trend over time to a higher service-sector share in the economy suggests that higher real growth in services has not been offset by
price
declines.
There is no outbreak of the so-called “Dutch disease” – that is, the
price
of services do not fall with an increase in the supply.
CAMBRIDGE – The
price
at the pump for premium gasoline topped $3 per gallon in much of the United States over the past few weeks, which is surprising to consumers but not to analysts of the world’s oil markets.
From its local low two years ago, the
price
of oil has more than doubled.
As with any market, where you stand on this
price
increase depends on where you sit.
As already noted, the oil
price
rise has been associated with an uptick in growth, and, whereas the events Hamilton examined related more to supply disruptions, the story of the past two years represents a combination of supply and demand forces.
For them, a weaker US dollar lowers the
price
of exports relative to imports, and so they restrict supply.
The scissors close with more demand and less supply, implying a higher dollar
price
of oil.
For a healthy market consistent with longer-run capital investment, an oil
price
that is too high can be as challenging as one that is too low.
The Chimera of Russia’s Gas PowerRussia began 2006 by cutting off natural gas exports to Ukraine after its government refused to pay a fourfold increase in the subsidized
price.
The result was a hastily patched together deal in which Russia and Ukraine each gave ground on price, and a shadowy Swiss-based company half-owned by Gazprom rolled supplies of cheap gas from Turkmenistan into the equation.
Some economists argue that there is little power in relationships where buyers and sellers consent to a
price
that clears a market.
On August 15, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon ended the commitment of the United States to a fixed gold price, and since then the world has lived with currency volatility and instability.
Other approaches are also possible: tightening up patent laws or imposing
price
controls for monopolistic industries, such as pharmaceuticals, as many market economies have done.
They were designed not to impede Iran’s nuclear program directly, but rather to increase the
price
that Iran’s leaders must pay for pursuing their nuclear ambitions.
But, rather than try to define a single approach, central bankers should aim to develop individualized approaches within the orthodox monetary-policy framework, which revolves around
price
stability and independence.
For example, the Fed’s mandate dictates that
price
stability can be explicitly linked to active support for GDP growth and employment; for the BoE and the ECB, it can be a condition for achieving the broader goal of sustainable growth and employment.
This view stands in stark contrast to the traditional view that there is a tradeoff between equality and growth, and that greater inequality is a
price
that must be paid for higher output.
As an economist, I favor an auction-based cap-and-trade system to put a
price
on carbon.
The
price
of coal, for example, has plunged to around half of its peak level, with plenty of room remaining on the downside.
But the RCB’s track record since 1992 has done little to stabilize inflation expectations and to persuade businessmen, investors, government officials and ordinary Russians that it is genuinely focused on reining in
price
growth.
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