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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 …
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harmful externalities, its actual use has been limited, mainly to the domain of pollution. Liability, in contrast, has great … importance in controlling harmful externalities. I compare the tax and liability here in theory and suggest that the conclusions … help to explain the observed predominance of liability over taxation, except in the area of pollution. The following …
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Taxation and liability are compared here as means of controlling harmful externalities. It is emphasized that liability …
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negotiations are feasible and side payments are based on the realized level of externalities. Results show that an increase in …
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pollution regulation. However, these studies have made restrictive assumptions regarding individual preferences and have ignored … key links between pollution, human health, and labor productivity. Together, these assumptions imply that the benefits of … that when the benefits of reduced pollution come in the form of improved health or productivity, the benefits do affect …
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We estimate expenditures by US natural gas distribution firms to reduce natural gas leaks. Reducing leaks averts commodity losses (valued at around $5/Mcf), but also climate damages ($27/Mcf) because the primary component of natural gas is methane, a potent greenhouse gas. In addition to this...
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industrialization. Will pollution continue to increase without bound as more and more countries pass through the development phase or …-regulating' in the sense that as income increases, pollution controls also increase. However, this intuition is somewhat misleading … rate of development of the economy through market interactions and the extent of pollution regulation through collective …
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Long before economics turned to psychology, environmentalists were nudging and framing and pushing their cause like highly gifted amateur psychologists. Their interventions seem to have changed behavior by altering beliefs, norms and preferences, but because psychological interventions are often...
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This paper discusses the likely evolution of the trade and environment issue in the World Trade Organization after the upcoming ministerial meeting in Singapore this December. It makes a number of points. Progress within the GATT/WTO on this issue looks likely to be slow and painfully...
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This paper examines voting by members of Congress on three trade bills introduced in 1993 and 1994: the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the agreements concluded in the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations (GATT), and most-favored nation status for China. We first review...
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