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Decomposing the impact of population growth on environmental deterioration

Gans, Oskar; Jöst, Frank - 2005

The IPAT-model developed by Ehrlich and Holdren is widespread in ecological economics in order to quantify the impact of population growth on environmental deterioration. We comment on this model and extensions proposed by several authors from a theoretical and empirical point of view.

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Environmental and population externalities

Jöst, Frank; Quaas, Martin - 2006

In this paper, we investigate the external effects of the parent's decisions on the number of newly born children and the firm's decisions on the amount of polluting emissions that occur in industrial production. We employ an optimal control model which comprises three stock variables...

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Environmental problems and economic development in an endogenous fertility model

Jöst, Frank; Quaas, Martin; Schiller, Johannes - 2006

the relationships between population development, economic dynamics and environmental pollution are complex due to various … long-run steady state is optimal that is characterized by a stable pollution stock, and by population and economic growth …

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Optimal dynamic scale and structure of a multi-pollution economy

Baumgärtner, Stefan (contributor); Jöst, Frank (contributor) - 2007

-environment interaction , multi-pollutant emissions , non-monotonic control , optimal scale , stock pollution …

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Optimal dynamic scale and structure of a multi-pollution economy

Baumgärtner, Stefan; Jöst, Frank; Winkler, Ralph - 2003

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Centralized versus decentralized cleanup of river water pollution : an application to the Ganges

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Beladi, Hamid - In: Games 14 (2023) 5, pp. 1-12

We exploit the public good attributes of Ganges water pollution cleanup and theoretically analyze an aggregate economy … pollution cleanup in these two cities ought to be provided in a centralized or in a decentralized manner. We first determine the … compute the optimal amount of water pollution cleanup in the two cities in a decentralized regime in which spending on cleanup …

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A Political Economy Model of the Ganges Pollution Cleanup Problem

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A. - 2020

We study pollution cleanup in the Ganges in Varanasi, India. Voters elect politicians and elected politicians decide … how much pollution to clean up. Between the two time periods, there is an election. Politicians are sincere or insincere …. The marginal cost of public funds ζ measures how efficiently elected politicians transform tax receipts into pollution …

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Introduction and Overview of the Economics of International Trade and the Environment

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Beladi, Hamid - 2000

We describe the theoretical and empirical contributions that rigorous economic analysis can make in improving our understanding of the salient issues relating to environmental protection in the presence of international trade. We do this by analyzing and summarizing the intellectual...

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Polluting Tanneries and Small Farmers in Kanpur, India : A Theoretical Analysis

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Kourtit, Karima; Nijkamp, Peter - 2022

We focus on the interaction between a representative polluting tannery and a negatively impacted small farmer in Kanpur, India. The tannery produces leather and toxic chemical waste that ends up in wastewater used by the small farmer to irrigate agricultural land and grow vegetables. The waste...

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A Theoretical Analysis of Costs, Waste Treatment, Pollution in the Ganges, and Leather Production by Tanneries in Kanpur, India

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Yoo, Seung Jick - 2023

We theoretically analyze the interaction between two representative and real tanneries, denoted by A and B, that are located on the same bank of the Ganges River in Kanpur, India. Tannery A is situated upstream from tannery B. Both tanneries produce leather and leather production by tannery A...

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