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Productivity and environmental regulations - A long run analysis of the Swedish industry

Brännlund, Runar - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2008

The aim with this study is to evaluate the potential effects on productivity development in the Swedish manufacturing industry due to changes in environmental regulations over a long time period. The issue is closely related to the so called Porter hypothesis, i.e. whether environmental...

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Swedish Industry and Kyoto – An Assessment of the Effects of the European CO2 Emission Permit Trading System

Brännlund, Runar; Lundgren, Tommy - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2005

We assess the effects on Swedish industry input and output demands of different climate policy scenarios <p> connected to energy policy induced by the Kyoto protocol. A unique data set containing firm level data <p> on outputs and inputs during the years 1991 – 2001 is used to estimate a factor...</p></p>

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Environmental policy and profitability - Evidence from Swedish industry

Brännlund, Runar; Lundgren, Tommy - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2008

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the existence of a “Porter effect” using firm level data on output and inputs from Swedish industry between 1990 and 2004. By utilizing a factor demand modeling approach, and specifying a profit function which has a technology component dependent...

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Technology Transfers and the Clean Development Mechanism in a North-South General Equilibrium Model

Aronsson, Thomas; Backlund, Kenneth; Sahlén, Linda - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2006

This paper analyzes the potential welfare gains of introducing a technology transfer from Annex I to non-Annex I in order to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. Our analysis is based on a numerical general equilibrium model for a world economy comprising two regions, North (Annex I) and South...

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Essays on Environmental and Development Economics - Public Policy, Resource Prices and Global Warming

Sahlén, Linda - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2009

This thesis consists of four self-contained papers, which are all related to important environmental and natural resource issues from a developing country perspective. Paper [I] concerns climate policy and addresses the potential welfare gains of introducing a technology transfer from the North...

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Environmental policy without costs? A review of the Porter hypothesis

Brännlund, Runar; Lundgren, Tommy - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2009

. According to the conventional wisdom environmental policy, aiming for improving the environment through for example emission …

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Income, Energy Taxation, and the Environment: An Econometric Analysis

Ghalwash, Tarek - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2006

), sulphur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxide (NOx). The aim of the paper is closely related to the discussion of what is known as … keeps CO2 emissions at their initial level. In addition, we estimate how this will affect emissions of sulphur dioxide and … increase will reduce the emissions of sulphur dioxide to below their initial level, but will leave the emissions of nitrogen …

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Essays on Productive Efficiency, Shadow Prices, and Human Capital. PhD Thesis

Marklund, Per-Olov - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2004

stringency not only brings a cleaner environment, but also makes the polluting producers aware of the opportunity of using …

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Environmental Regulation and Firm Efficiency: Studying the Porter Hypothesis using a Directional Output Distance Function

Marklund, Per-Olov - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2003

The purpose of this paper is to suggest a procedure to empirically test the Porter hypothesis. This hypothesis argues that environmental regulation not only increases environmental quality, but also brings the polluting producers information that makes them more resource efficient, as well as...

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A Dual Assessment of the Environmental Kuznets Curve: The Case of Sweden

Ankarhem, Mattias - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2005

In this paper, we calculate time series of shadow prices for Swedish emissions of CO2, SO2, and VOC for the period 1918 - 1994. Newly constructed historical emission time series enable studying a single country’s emission paths through increasing levels of economic activity. The shadow prices...

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