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issues: climate change and biodiversity. Involvement of governments and a reference framework provided by intergovernmental …
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species forming a food chain. The size of habitat determines the diversity and abundance of species. That biodiversity …
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looks at optimal policies of biodiversity conservation. The subject of the paper is "natural" biodiversity, which is …
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countries, compatible with the sustainability of the processes concerning the Earth system. Mainly by focusing on the energy-environment …
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We study the welfare effects of a revenue-neutral green tax reform in a federation. The reform consists of increasing a tax on a polluting input and reducing that on labor income. Households are fully mobile within the federation. Regions are unequally endowed with a nonrenewable natural...
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In some important multi-player situations, such as efforts to supply a global public good, players can choose the game they want to play. In this paper we conduct an experimental test of the decision to choose between a “tipping” game, in which every player wants to contribute to the public...
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higher where (1) there exists an energy / CO2 tax, where (2) government expenditures on the environment are higher, where (3 …
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equilibrium of a small open economy where the environment is an input to production. Differences in the ability of individuals to … role in the determination of collective choices with respect to the regulation of the environment and of trade. We conclude … by drawing out the implications of the analysis for the study of the political economy of the environment …
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Recent literature proposes many variables as significant determinants of pollution. This paper gives an overview of this literature and asks which of these factors have an empirically robust impact on water and air pollution, i.e. do not depend upon the conditioning information set. For this, we...
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This paper analyzes the dynamic incentives for technology adoption under a transferable permits system, which allows for strategic trading on the permit market. Initially, firms can invest both in low-emitting production technologies and trade permits. In the model, technology adoption and...
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