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Carbon Taxation, Fuel Substitution and Welfare in Australia

Creedy, J.; Martin, C. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1998

This paper investigates the implications for Australian households of a carbon tax, using the input-output approach developed by Simons et al. (1994) and adapted by Cornwell and Creedy (1997). In these studies the carbon dioxyde reduction is generated by demand changes resulting from the...

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Tell Me Something I Don’t Already Know:Informedness and External Validity in Information Programs

Byrne, David P.; Nauze, Andrea La; Martin, Leslie A. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2014

their relative energy consumption pre-treatment. Households that overestimated respond to new information by temporarily … increasing electricity consumption, whereas households that underestimated take steps that lead to long term energy conservation …

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Modelling Time of Day Sustitution Using the Second Moments of Demand.

Hirschberg, J.G. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1996

Time of day (TOD) rates are a commonly used method for peak load pricing of many services. Such services as ; electricity, communications, transportation, shared computer facilities, and computer networks (ie. the Internet), either use, or will use form of TOD pricing. The model presented here...

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Energy Futures Market Trading Versus Physical Commodity Usage: A playground for manipulation or a miscalculation?

Ripple, Ronald - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2006

The relationship between energy futures trading volume and physical commodity usage is evaluated with the aim of …-commercial market manipulators. Nevertheless, there is still strong evidence that the energy futures markets provide a valuable basis …

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An Experimental Study of Electronic Bulletin Board Trading for Emission Permits

Cason, T.N.; Gangadharan, L. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1997

This paper reports a laboratory experiment that studies several specific features of the Regional Clean Air Incentives Market (RECLAIM), a tradable emission permit program intended to lower the cost of meeting federal air quality standards in the Los Angeles area. It assesses the impact of some...

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Some Unpleasant Natural Resource Accounting Arithmetic: The Welfare Inconsitency of

Harris, M. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2000

Advocates of natural resource accounting argue for the revision and refonnulation of national accounting practices in order to better account for the depletion and degradation of a nation's resource stocks and environmental assets. The literature is predicated on three key assumptions: that...

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Time Series Evidence of Global Warming.

Hurn, A.S.; Lindsay, K.A. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1996

Time series data consisting of 671 observations of seawater temperature, observed at irregular intervals off Maria Island, Hobart, Australia, over a period of 50 years, are examined. The mean temperature exhibits an approximately linear trend which is taken as evidence of glabal warming.

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Environmental Labeling and Incomplete Consumer Information in Laboratory Markets.

Cason, T.N.; Gangadharan, L. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1999

Survey evidence suggests that consumers care about the environment and are willing to pay a higher price for a product …

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The Demand for Water by Single and Group-Metered Households.

Creedy, J.; McKenzie, K.E.; Van de Ven, J. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1997

This paper examines the consumption of water by households that are individually metered (single-metered households) and those sharing a water meter (group-metered households).

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Interrelationships between Income, Health and the Environment: Extending the Environmental Kuznets Curve Hypothesis.

Gangagharan, L.; Valenzuela, M.R. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2000

countries widely dispersed in the economic development spectrum. While the environment and income are seen to have an inverted U …-shaped relationship (Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis), it is also well established that health and environment are positively …-stage least squares model that focuses on the impact of income and the environment on health status, with environment being an …

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