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Democracy, Inequality and the Environment when Citizens can Mitigate Privately or Act Collectively
Bernard, Sophie; Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - CESifo - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727301
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China's Outward FDI: An Industry-level Analysis of Host Country Determinants
Amighini, Alessia; Rabellotti, Roberta; Sanfilippo, Marco - CESifo - 2011
We provide an empirical analysis of host country determinants of Chinese outward FDI for the period 2003 to 2008, using data disaggregated by country and industry. We want to assess the relevance of market-seeking, resource-seeking and strategic asset seeking motivations suggested by the theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391727
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Green Skills
Vona, Francesco; Marin, Giovanni; Consoli, Davide; … - CESifo - 2015
The catchword ‘green skills’ has been common parlance in policy circles for a while, yet there is little systematic empirical research to guide public intervention for meeting the demand for skills that will be needed to operate and develop green technology. The present paper proposes a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272630
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Self-Financing Environmental Mechanisms
Breitscheidel, Joerg; Gersbach, Hans - CESifo - 2005
We explore the design of self-financing tax/subsidy mechanisms to solve hold-up problems in environmental regulation. Under Cournot competition, announcing the subsidy rate seems to be preferable to announcing the tax rate. Moreover, for constant marginal damage the hold-up problem can always be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765869
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Biodiversity and Geography
Barbier, Edward B.; Rauscher, Michael - CESifo - 2007
The paper combines an economic-geography model of agglomeration and periphery with a model of species diversity and looks at optimal policies of biodiversity conservation. The subject of the paper is "natural" biodiversity, which is inevitably impaired by anthropogenic impact. Thus, the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406256
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Learning Abatement Costs: On the Dynamics of Optimal Regulation of Experience Goods
Hintermann, Beat; Lange, Andreas - CESifo - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603856
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Corrective Taxation for Curbing Pollution and Promoting Green Product Design and Recycling
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2000
which exhibits distortions due to pollution, external landfilling costs and inefficient product design. The allocative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766303
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The Demands for Environmental Regulation and for Trade in the Presence of Private Mitigation
Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - CESifo - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094435
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Nonlinear Production, Abatement, Pollution and Materials Balance Reconsidered
Pethig, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2005
pollution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181310
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Economic, Demographic and Political Determinants of Pollution Reassessed: A Sensitivity Analysis
Gassebner, Martin; Lamla, Michael; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - CESifo - 2006
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406345