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The Environmental Regime in Developing Countries

Jha, Raghbendra - 1999

This paper discusses the environmental externalities that are commonly found in the developing world (the environmental regime) along with the policy responses, if any, commonly used to deal with these. Included are the effects of industrial emissions, air and water quality impacts of untreated...

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Climatic Constraints on Aggregate Economic Output

Burke, Marshall - 2019

Efficient responses to climate change require accurate estimates of both aggregate damages and where and to whom they occur. While specific case studies and simulations have suggested that climate change disproportionately affects the poor, large-scale direct evidence of the magnitude and...

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Pareto-Improving Carbon-Risk Taxation

Kotlikoff, Laurence J. - 2020

Anthropogenic climate change produces two conceptually distinct negative economic externalities. The first is an expected path of climate damage. The second, which is this paper's focus, is an expected path of economic risk. To isolate the climate-risk problem, we consider mean-zero, symmetric...

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When Externalities Collide : Influenza and Pollution

Zivin, Joshua S. Graff - 2020

Influenza and air pollution are significant public health risks with large economic consequences shared across the … interacting externalities. Using regional and temporal variation in pollution and disease transmission, we find exposure to more … air pollution significantly increases influenza hospitalizations. By exploiting the random deviations in influenza vaccine …

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What Are the Costs of Meeting Distributional Objectives for Climate Policy?

Parry, Ian W.H. - 2010

This paper develops an analytical model to quantify the costs and distributional effects of various fiscal options for allocating the (large) rents created under prospective cap-and-trade programs to reduce domestic, energy-related CO2 emissions. The trade-off between cost effectiveness and...

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Regulatory Choice with Pollution and Innovation

Kolstad, Charles D. - 2010

technologies which reduce the cost of pollution abatement. The innovating firm can patent this innovation and use a licensing fee … a pollution tax or a marketable permit. However, the returns to the innovator from innovation are not the same under the …

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Taxes, Permits, and Climate Change

Kaplow, Louis - 2010

This essay revisits the question of instrument choice for the regulation of externalities in the context of climate change. The central point is that the Pigouvian prescription to equate marginal control costs with the expected marginal benefits of damage reduction should guide the design of...

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The Corrective Tax versus Liability As Solutions to the Problem of Harmful Externalities

Shavell, Steven - 2010

harmful externalities, its actual use has been limited, mainly to the domain of pollution. Liability, in contrast, has great … help to explain the observed predominance of liability over taxation, except in the area of pollution. The following …

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Corrective Taxation versus Liability

Shavell, Steven - 2010

Taxation and liability are compared here as means of controlling harmful externalities. It is emphasized that liability has an advantage over taxation: inefficiency of incentives arises under taxation when, as would be typical, it would be impractical for a tax to reflect all variables that...

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GHG Targets as Insurance Against Catastrophic Climate Damages

Weitzman, Martin L. - 2010

A critical issue in climate-change economics is the specification of the so-called "damages function" and its interaction with the unknown uncertainty of catastrophic outcomes. This paper asks how much we might be misled by our economic assessment of climate change when we employ a conventional...

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