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Environmental policy analysis with limited information : principles and applications of the transfer method

Desvousges, William H.; Johnson, F. Reed; Banzhaf, H. … - 1998

The transfer study, a technique used in cost-benefit analysis, is an increasingly important tool used by government agencies to assess environmental regulatory policy. This innovative book develops protocols for using the transfer method to approach environmental problems and introduces several...

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Modelling the costs of environmental policy : a dynamic applied general equilibrium assessment

Dellink, Rob B. - 2005

This important new book enhances our understanding of the dynamic interactions between economic activity, economic growth, pollution abatement and environmental policy. It addresses one main policy problem: how can the direct and indirect costs of environmental policy for multiple pollutants be...

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Environmental costs and liberalization in European air transport : a welfare economic analysis

Schipper, Youdi - 2001

With air transport becoming an increasingly vital part of the economy, the regulatory reform of this market has been a major development in European political economy. This book focuses on two market failures within the airline industry - market power and environmental externalities - and...

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The economic analysis of substance use and abuse : the experience of developed countries and lessons for developing countries

Grossman, Michael (ed.); Hsieh, Chee-Ruey (ed.) - 2001

Currently developed countries pay much more attention to harmfully addictive substances than developing countries. However, the experience of developed countries is very relevant to the developing world since substance abuse is likely to impose a continually increasing burden of disease in this...

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Green accounting in Europe : a comparative study, volume 2

Markandya, Anil (contributor); … - 2005

Using spatially desegregated data on measures of pollution to derive economic damage estimates, the main purpose of the book is to gauge the environmental damage sustained as a result of economic activities and to offer an insight into how the information generated can be used in conjunction...

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Tax evasion and firm survival in competitive markets

Palda, K. Filip - 2001

Tax Evasion and Firm Survival in Competitive Markets illustrates how a firm with high production costs but which is easily able to evade taxes may displace from the market a company with low production costs but poor tax evasion capabilities. The difference in production costs between the...

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Reforming transport pricing in the European Union : a modelling approach

De Borger, Bruno L. (contributor); Proost, Stef (contributor) - 2001

This timely book deals with the problem of pricing passenger and freight transportation within Europe. The contributors argue that current legislation affecting pricing and regulation is increasingly less successful in dealing with market failures and externalities such as congestion, air...

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The costs of economic growth

Victor, Peter A. - 2013

This book is a convenient and comprehensive collection of seminal papers on the costs of economic growth. The papers are grouped in 6 sections covering: the origins of the debate, the limits to growth, measurement, international and global dimensions, developing countries, and looking ahead. The...

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Brand protection and the global risk of product counterfeits : a total business solution approach

Wilson, Jeremy M. (ed.) - 2022

"Product counterfeits and other brand infringements represent a growing and substantial risk to firms, consumers, and society. While policing such illicit activity is important, there is much that firms can do to protect themselves and their customers. Grounded in field research and practice,...

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A modern guide to the economics of crime

Buonanno, Paolo (ed.); Vanin, Paolo (ed.); … - 2022

"A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime discusses the evolution of a field, whose growing relevance among scholars … and policymakers is partly related to the persistence of crime and violence around the world and partly to the remarkable … progress made in recent years in the economic analysis of individual and organised crime. Such progress is related to the so …

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