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either mitigate the health consequences of domestic pollution privately or reduce pollution collectively through public … ordinary citizens. The recognition that the health consequences of pollution can be dealt with privately at a cost adds an … private mitigation is feasible, inequality of incomes leads to an unequal distribution of the health burden of pollution (in …
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We study the introduction of new technologies when their costs are subject to idiosyncratic uncertainty and can only be fully learned through individual experience. We set up a dynamic model of clean experience goods that replace old polluting consumption options and show how optimal regulation...
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which exhibits distortions due to pollution, external landfilling costs and inefficient product design. The allocative …
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afford private mitigation of the adverse consequences of pollution is a central feature of the analysis. Private mitigation … leads to an endogenous, unequal distribution of the health-related consequences of pollution across income groups in a …
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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 … water pollution. …
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We study (energy) markets with dirty incumbents and costly entry by clean producers. For intermediate entry costs, the market outcome exhibits inefficient production and inefficient entry. A policy mix of three popular regulatory instruments—taxation on polluters, feed-in tariffs for clean...
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production. Pollution, as a force that discourages agglomeration, is caused by domestic production. We show that cities are too … large and too few in number in uncoordinated equilibrium if economic growth implies increasing pollution (‘brown growth …
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incorporated. We find that tougher competition between the JV partners may actually increase channel profit under such a scheme. We …
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