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Competitiveness impacts of climate policy / Juha Siikamäki, Clayton Munnings, and Jeffrey Ferris, Resources for the Future, November 2012, 32 p.http://www.rff.org/RFF/Documents/RFF-Bck-CompetitivenessImpacts.pdfEvaluating the impacts of climate policy on a country’s overall competitiveness is one of the key areas of climate policy research. Competitiveness impacts occur if countries without a greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction system gain a comparative advantage on countries with GHG reduction systems. Two primary goals of the research in this area are to: (a) determine how to define competitiveness impacts and (b) measure their magnitudes. This backgrounder introduces competitiveness impacts, reviews the current literature on them, identifies the available data sources, and discusses potential limitations of research on competitiveness impacts...