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The paper examines the efficiency of alternative road pricing schemes when an alternative railroad service is available. The paper uses a model, developed by Tabuchi (1993), in which road transport presents a bottleneck congestion technology while railroad transport shows economies of scale with...
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The present stalemate in climate negotiations has led policy analysts and economists to explore the possible emergence …
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comparison of the social, the environmental and the economic dimensions of the policy’s impact. This is commonly done in a … impacts of the policy are considered. The methodology computes competitive advantages as well as relative efficiencies of … policy (in the present paper we use the FEEM RICE model), as well as the choice of indicators for costs and benefits …
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, participation and optimal policy should be jointly analysed. Moreover, our results show that the US, Russia and China have different …
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paper aims at exploring whether a different policy approach could lead more countries to adopt effective climate control … policies. This policy approach is explicitly bottom-up, namely it gives each country the freedom to sign agreements and deals … provides a game-theoretic assessment of this policy approach and then evaluates empirically the possible endogenous emergence …
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Many international treaties come into force only after a minimum number of countries have signed and ratified the treaty. Why do countries agree to introduce a minimum participation constraint among the rules characterising an international treaty? This question is particularly relevant in the...
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with respect to its position on climate policy. As a consequence, the factors that shape Russia’s behaviour in the context …
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facilitating the involvement of stakeholders or experts in policy - or decision-making processes (P/DMP). A generic P/DMP is … different phases of the decision/policy making process, in particular when future scenarios or projections have to be considered …
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This study compares the environmental impacts of urban public transport and automobiles (energy use, emissions, noise nuisance, waste materials and use of space). For this purpose two models have been developed FACTS-Urban (Forecasting air pollution by car traffic simulation) and MILOV...
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and policy strategies that might help the US to modify its current policy and move back to the Kyoto-Bonn agreement. For … reduce GHG emissions? Is a single emission trading market the appropriate policy framework to increase participation in the …
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