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Voluntary environmental agreements are oftensuspected to promote collusive practicesbetween participating firms. The paperaddresses the antitrust implications ofGermany's voluntary Dual Management System forPackaging Waste Collection and Recycling (DSD). It uses analytical tools of the...
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estimations show that fiscal policies and energy taxes are important determinants of pollution through various mechanisms. We find …
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. This paper examines the extent to which free transit fares and appeals for car trip avoidance reduce car pollution on … effect is perverse in that it generates an increase in car trips and related pollution. Free fares also increase transit …
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This paper investigates the effects of financial relief programs, commonly referred to as ‘bailouts’, on pollution. A …
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such an IG has on firms’ technology choices. The IG aims to reduce the production of some bad, say pollution. It can at a … environment, revealing differences in pollution levels between firms leads to vertical product differentiation. The information …, by shifting sales from ‘dirty’ towards ‘clean’ firms, reduces pollution. We show that the IG is most inclined to …
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in some countries displaces production, and hence pollution, to countries which impose less tough environmental policies …
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forextraction and for abatement of pollution are chosen subject to anenvironmental regulation. The implications for accounting for …
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The estimation of the optimal charges/taxes on environmental disruption and the financing of the spending on the abatement of environmental disruption are important practical problems. This paper shows that, for most cases where some abatement is desirable, both the estimation and the financing...
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This paper addresses the question of how uncertainty in costs and benefits affects the difficulty of reaching a voluntary agreement among sovereign states. A measure of “difficulty” is constructed related to side-payments necessary to make an agreement a Pareto-improving move. Using a simple...
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