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Indigenous Forests and Forest Sink Policy in New Zealand
Kerr, Suzi - EconWPA - 2004
This paper tackles the complex issue of how to include regenerating indigenous forest in a domestic carbon credit system. The paper specifically addresses New Zealand conditions but most of the issues and conclusions are relevant in any developed country with indigenous regrowth. The paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005118946
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International Trade Policy towards Monopolies and Oligopolies
Kujal, Praveen; Ruiz, Juan - EconWPA - 2003
either chooses a R&D (and output) subsidy, or remains inactive. For a domestic duopoly a government taxes, subsidizes, or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556503
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The Other Side of Limited Liability: Predatory Behavior and Investment Timing
Bayer, Christian - EconWPA - 2004
duopoly with aggregate demand uncertainty. We find that limited liability and investment irreversibility is likely to produce … obligations in adverse states. However, market conditions themselves become endogenous in a duopoly since the quantity decisions … consequently monopolize the market. Therefore, the model of this paper explains predatory behavior in a duopoly without invoking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134505
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R&D in Duopoly with Spillovers: Evolution and Aspiration Learning
Cabelka, Stepan; Cukrowski, Jacek - EconWPA - 2001
algorithm of social evolution and aspiration learning for asymmetric duopoly is presented. The evolutionary equilibrium in R …&D duopoly with spillovers is presented and analyzed. The results show that strengthening intellectual property rights protection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412931
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Environmental Taxes and Economic Welfare: The Welfare Cost of Gasoline Taxation in the U.S. 1959-1999
Kim, Seung-Rae - EconWPA - 2002
considers explicitly the joint allocation of leisure and commodity demands where the wage rate plays a role both as a form of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556916
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Optimal Environmental Regulation in the Presence of Other Taxes: A Generalized Second-Best Rule
Kim, Seung-Rae - EconWPA - 2002
This paper is intended as a step toward the development of theoretically founded and operational environmental taxation formula in a second-best world. Recent studies find that environmental taxes typically exacerbate pre-existing tax distortions and, therefore, the optimal pollution tax should...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005560960
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EFFICIENT CONTRACTS FOR CARBON CREDITS FROM REFORESTATION PROJECTS
Kerr, Suzi - EconWPA - 2004
This paper tackles the complex issue of how buyers and sellers within a domestic carbon credit system designed to include regenerating indigenous forest would optimally design contracts for trades of the new good, “carbon sink credits”. The paper begins by briefly defining the constraints...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407768
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EPA Guidelines for Regulatory Impact Analysis
Snyder, Brett - EconWPA - 1996
On February 17, 1981, the President issued Executive Order 12291 mandating that regulatory agencies must prepare regulatory impact analyses (RIAs) on all major regulations. Before taking action, the agencies must send all RIAs and proposed regulations to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407775
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Policy to Encourage Carbon Sequestration in Plantation Forests
Kerr, Suzi; Brunton, Emma; Chapman, Ralph - EconWPA - 2005
Carbon sequestration in plantation forests provides the main means by which New Zealand will meet its international climate change obligations in the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol (2008–2012). However, without active policy, forests are unlikely to contribute as much in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407796
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Price risk management instruments in agricultural and other unstable markets
Boussard, Jean-Marc - EconWPA - 2005
Most economists congregate on the idea that commodity price instability should be reduced. Since at least one century a variety of instruments have been designed to that end, without much success, especially for agricultural commodities. The failure might be a consequence of the fact that most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412556