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This paper focuses on the impact of property rights insecurity on deforestation in the Brazilian Legal Amazon. Deforestation is considered as a risk management strategy: property rights insecurity reduces the present value of forests and fosters forest conversion into agricultural and pasture...
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trajectories of genuine saving and its component linked to natural capital. To this end, we calculate New-Caledonia's genuine …-Caledonian economy doesn't show vulnerability signs insofar as the appreciation of assets linked to physical and human capital more than … compensated the depreciation of assets linked to natural capital between 1970 and 2007. However, the analysis of the various …
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Stemming from politically given market imperfections in a tradable permits system, this paper develops a Stackelberg game with two types of non-cooperative agents to describe how a large -potentially dominant- agent may exercise market power at the expense of a competitive fringe. In a dynamic...
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This paper studies the optimal environmental policy in a mixed market when pollution accumulates over time. Specifically, we assume quantity competition between several private firms and one partially privatized firm. The optimal emission tax is shown to be independent of the weight the...
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This article critically examines the EU ETS intertemporal market during its Phase I (2005-2007). We test the Hotelling rule as a key element of a competitive equilibrium to validate whether allowance prices rise at the same rate as the interest rate. Including readily observable characteristics...
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Cette étude est une contribution à l'amélioration de la gestion des déchets municipaux en France qui est une question environnementale mais surtout une question de finance publique. Son objectif est double. Le premier est d'évaluer l'impact de la qualité de la consommation finale des...
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Sustainable consumption is at the center of sustainable development that every country seems to want. One of the great challenges of this century must be to understand what drives the consumption and how we can reduce consumption through increased efficiency. However consumption is not simply...
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Using classical models of information processing and persuasion, this study examines the efficiency of European Directive 1999/94/EC, pertaining to automotive carbon emission information, as a means to encourage more sustainable consumption patterns. The Directive requires European carmakers to...
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This paper studies the maximin paths of the canonical Dasgupta-Heal-Solow model when the stock of natural capital is a … elasticity of substitution between consumption and natural capital, we show taht it is optimal to preserve forever a critical … level of natural capital, determined endogeneously. We then study how technical progress affects the optimal maximin paths …
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of natural capital is a direct argument of well-being, besides consumption. We use a Keynes-Ramsey rule wich yields a … show that, in the Cobb-Douglas case, the ratio of the values of the resource and capital stocks remains constant along the …
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