La gravité des problèmes environnementaux a été au cœur de la vague de contestations qui a marqué la fin des régimes communistes en Europe centrale et orientale comme dans l’ex-Union soviétique. Cet ouvrage jette un nouvel éclairage sur les interactions qui se sont mises en place...

Environmental Problems in the Shortage Economy is one of the first books to analyse environmental disruption under the Soviet economic system. Using original Soviet data the author shows that considerable damage has been done to the environment and that measures which were intended to protect it...

We consider a model of polluting firms subject to tax on emissions, monitoring, and penalties in case of underreporting and which face a choice between a more expensive clean and a less expensive dirty technology. Moreover, emissions are subject to random events.We show that the optimal...