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Behavioral and distributional effects of environmental policy
Carraro, Carlo (contributor);  … - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001481180
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The design and implementation of US climate policy
Fullerton, Don (contributor);  … - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013480729
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Risk and Return in Environmental Economics
Pindyck, Robert S. - 2012
I examine the risk/return tradeoff for environmental investments, and its implications for policy choice. Consider a policy to reduce carbon emissions. To what extent does the value of such a policy depend on the expected future damages from global warming versus uncertainty over those damages,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460398
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Evolution of Assessments of the Economics of Global Warming : Changes in the DICE model, 1992 – 2017
Nordhaus, William D. - 2017
Many areas of the natural and social sciences involve complex systems that link together multiple sectors. Integrated assessment models (IAMs) are approaches that integrate knowledge from two or more domains into a single framework, and these are particularly important for climate change. One of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455362
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Charging NOx Emitters for Health Damages : An Exploratory Analysis
Mauzerall, Denise - 2004
We present a proof-of-concept analysis of the measurement of the health damage of ozone (O3) produced from nitrogen oxides (NOx = NO NO2) emitted by individual large point sources in the eastern United States. We use a regional atmospheric model of the eastern United States, the Comprehensive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467865
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International Trade and the Environment : A Framework for Analysis
Copeland, Brian R. - 2001
Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson factor endowments model. We draw quite heavily from trade theory, but develop a simple pollution …This paper sets out a general equilibrium pollution and trade model to provide a framework for examination of the trade … and environment debate. The model contains as special cases a canonical pollution haven model as well as the standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470178
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Optimal Cleanup and Liability After Environmentally Harmful Discharges
Polinsky, A. Mitchell - 1992
This article studies how liability for environmentally harmful discharges affects the incentives of firms to engage in cleanup and invest in precautions, as well as the incentives of consumers to purchase the goods whose production leads to discharges. Our main conclusion is that making firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474792
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The Effects of Environmental Policy on the Performance of Environmental RIVs
Katsoulacos, Yannis - 1999
pollution are low. In this case RJVs fully share information and internalize the associated externality. However when the level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471483
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Regulatory Choice with Pollution and Innovation
Kolstad, Charles D. - 2010
technologies which reduce the cost of pollution abatement. The innovating firm can patent this innovation and use a licensing fee … a pollution tax or a marketable permit. However, the returns to the innovator from innovation are not the same under the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462354
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GHG Targets as Insurance Against Catastrophic Climate Damages
Weitzman, Martin L. - 2010
A critical issue in climate-change economics is the specification of the so-called "damages function" and its interaction with the unknown uncertainty of catastrophic outcomes. This paper asks how much we might be misled by our economic assessment of climate change when we employ a conventional...
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