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Are democrats greener than republicans? The case of California air quality
Farzin, Y. H.; Bond, C. A. - 2012
When it comes to environmental quality preferences, it is popularly believed that Democrats (and more generally, liberals) are green while Republicans (conservatives) are brown. Does empirical evidence support this popular belief? We test the hypothesis that regional political identification...
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Satisfaction with Democracy and Collective Action Problems: The Case of the Environment
Halla, Martin; Schneider, Friedrich; Wagner, Alexander - 2008
Using modern methods for analyzing multi-level data, we find that, by and large, citizens of OECD countries are more satisfied with the way democracy works in their country if more environmental policies are in place and if environmental quality is higher. We also document that parents care...
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Voluntary Agreements and the Environmental Efficiency of Participating Farms
Ordóñez, Andrea; Roosen, Jutta - 2003
Voluntary environmental agreements have been popular with government agencies in several countries. However, many questions remain about their efficiency as a regulatory tool. Recent analyses suggest that they are more effective than classical regulatory or economic approaches when dealing with...
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Assessing Voluntary Commitments: Monitoring is Not Enough!
Böhringer, Christoph; Frondel, Manuel - 2002
This paper deals with a special type of voluntary approach to protect the environment, for example, that we would like to term voluntary commitment. Its major characteristic is that it represents a unilateral declaration without a decisively active role of regulators. In other words, voluntary...
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Efficiency Losses from Overlapping Economic Instruments in European Carbon Emissions Regulation
Böhringer, Christoph; Koschel, Henrike; Moslener, Ulf - 2006
Energy markets and energy-intensive industries in all EU member states – especially in Germany – are subject to a diverse set of policies related to climate change. We analyse the potential efficiency losses from simultaneous application of emission taxes and emissions trading in qualitative...
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Employment impacts of cleaner production: evidence from a German study using case studies and surveys
Pfeiffer, Friedhelm; Rennings, Klaus - 1999
The study assesses net employment effects of technical progress which can be expected by the ongoing transition from end-of-pipe technologies towards cleaner production. Empirical evidence is presented on the basis of case studies and panel data including a telephone survey in German industry....
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The employment impact of cleaner production on the firm level: empirical evidence from a survey in five European countries
Rennings, Klaus; Zwick, Thomas - 2001
This paper analyses the determinants of employment reactions of firms when environmental innovations have been carried out. It differentiates hereby between employment increases and decreases. The data stem from a telephone survey covering more than 1500 firms in five European countries that...
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Die Ökologische Steuerreform in Deutschland: Ein umweltpolitisches Feigenblatt
Böhringer, Christoph; Schwager, Robert - 2002
werden. Dann wird Umweltschutz dort geleistet, wo er am wenigsten kostet. Aus theoretischer Sicht können Abweichungen von … erheblich ab. Über weitreichende Ausnahmen wird die ökologische Lenkungswirkung stark abgeschwächt. Umweltschutz wird damit … die geringe Zahlungsbereitschaft der Wähler für Umweltschutz und die starke sektorale Konzentration von Anpassungskosten …
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Socially Responsible Investments in Germany, Switzerland and the United States: An Analysis of Investment Funds and Indices
Schröder, Michael - 2003
The aim of this study is the analysis of so called socially responsible investments (SRI). First, the performance of SRI equity investment funds and equity indices is investigated using Jensen´s alpha as performance measure. The analysis considers market timing strategies of the fund management...
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Now or Never: Environmental Protection under Hyperbolic Discounting
Winkler, Ralph - 2009
The author analyzes the optimal investment in environmental protection in a model of an infinite series of non-overlapping hyperbolically discounting agents. He shows that without a commitment mechanism society is eventually stuck in a situation where all agents prefer further investment in the...
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