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The environmental Kuznets curve and sustainability : a panel data analysis
Farhani, Sahbi; Mrizak, Sana; Chaibi, Anissa; Rault, … - 2014
In recent years, sustainability has represented one of the most important policy goals explored in the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. But related hypotheses, performance measures and results continue to present a challenge. The present paper contributes to this ongoing literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350476
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Smart cap
Karp, Larry S.; Traeger, Christian - 2021
We introduce a "smart" cap and trade system that eliminates the welfare costs of asymmetric information (“uncertainty”). This cap responds endogenously to technology or macroeconomic shocks, relying on the market price of certificates to aggregate information. It allows policy makers to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012438358
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Public transport and urban pollution
Borck, Rainald - 2017
The paper studies the effect of public transport policies on urban pollution. It uses a quantitative equilibrium model … with residential choice and mode choice. Pollution comes from commuting and residential energy use. The model parameters … transport coupled with increasing transit speed affects the equilibrium. In the baseline simulation, total pollution falls by 0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011717025
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Optimal stabilization in an emission permits market
Gerlagh, Reyer; Wan, Roweno J.R.K - 2018
We develop a 2-period emission trading model for a stock pollutant with demand shocks resolving over time. We find precise conditions for efficiency of a stabilization mechanism where cumulative available permits decrease with excess supply in early periods. Our model describes the stabilization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810102
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Decentralized environmental regulations and plant-level productivity
Ghosal, Vivek; Stephan, Andreas; Weiss, Jan F. - 2018
regulated due to its historically large contribution to air and water pollution. Our paper contributes to the broader empirical … and enforcement. Our key findings are: (1) prudential regulation limits expansion of plants with high initial pollution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011906240
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Prices versus quantities reassessed
Karp, Larry S.; Traeger, Christian - 2018
"Prices versus quantities" (Weitzman 1974), a hugely influential paper, is widely cited (and taught) in current debates about the best policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The paper's criterion for ranking policies suggests that technological uncertainty favors taxes over cap and trade....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011927948
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Regulating stock externalities
Gerlagh, Reyer; Heijmans, Roweno - 2018
We develop a dynamic regulation game for a stock externality under asymmetric information and future market uncertainty. Within this framework, regulation is characterized as the implementation of a welfare-maximization program conditional on informational constraints. We identify the most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011939765
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Optimal pollution control in a mixed oligopoly with research spillovers
Haruna, Shoji; Goel, Rajeev K. - 2018
We study optimal pollution abatement under a mixed oligopoly game when firms engage in emissions-reducing R&D that is … certain conditions, the optimal pollution tax is positive; otherwise, the tax reverts to a subsidy. Comparing mixed and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011800081
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De-fueling externalities : causal effects of fuel taxation and mediating mechanisms for delivering climate and health benefits
Basaglia, Pier; Behr, Sophie M.; Drupp, Moritz A. - 2023 - This version: July 2023
reductions in external damages are health benefits, highlighting the importance of accounting for co-pollution impacts of carbon …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014295072
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Green havens and pollution havens
Poelhekke, Steven; Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2012
We test for pollution haven effects in outward foreign direct investment (FDI) for different sectors using a … country significantly attracts FDI. What is important for these pollution haven effects is not only regulation but also … enforcement of environmental policy. In contrast to earlier results, it is not only footloose industries that display pollution …
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