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Noncooperative Equilibria in Regional Environmental Policies When Plant Locations are Endogenous

Markusen, James R. - 1992

A two-region model is presented in which an imperfectly competitive firm produces a good with increasing returns at the plant level, and in which shipping costs exist between the two markets. Production of the good causes local pollution, and regional governments can levy pollution taxes or...

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Decentralization and Environmental Quality : An International Analysis of Water Pollution

Sigman, Hilary - 2007

This paper explores the empirical effects of decentralization on environmental quality by studying water pollution in … rivers around the world. It examines the level of pollution and variation in pollution across jurisdictions within a country …, supporting the traditional view that decentralization allows policies more tailored to local conditions. However, the analysis …

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Behavioral and distributional effects of environmental policy

Carraro, Carlo (contributor); … - 2001

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Behavioral and Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy Introduction

Carraro, Carlo - 2000

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Setting the Initial Time-Profile of Climate Policy : The Economics of Environmental Policy Phase-Ins

Williams, Roberton C, III. - 2010

This paper considers the question of under what circumstances a new environmental regulation should "phase in" gradually over time, rather than being immediately implemented at full force. The paper focuses particularly on climate policy, though its insights are more general. It shows that while...

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The Effect of Allowance Allocations on Cap-and-Trade System Performance

Hahn, Robert W. - 2010

We examine an implication of the "Coase Theorem" which has had an important impact both on environmental economics and on public policy in the environmental domain. Under certain conditions, the market equilibrium in a cap-and-trade system will be cost-effective and independent of the initial...

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The Economics of Climate Change

Goulder, Lawrence H. - 2006

Global climate change poses a threat to the well-being of humans and other living things through impacts on ecosystem functioning, biodiversity, capital productivity, and human health. This paper briefly surveys recent research on the economics of climate change, including theoretical insights...

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The Case for a Two-Part Instrument : Presumptive Tax and Environmental Subsidy

Fullerton, Don - 1997

considerations regarding its actual use throughout the world. While the tax-subsidy combination is increasingly being used, in the …

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Costs of Environmentally Motivated Taxes in the Presence of Other Taxes : General Equilibrium Analyses

Bovenberg, A. Lans - 1995

There has been keen interest in recent years in environmentally motivated or 'green' tax reforms. This paper employs analytical and numerical general equilibrium models to investigate the costs of such reforms, concentrating on the question of whether these costs can be eliminated when revenues...

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Where is Pollution Moving? Environmental Markets and Environmental Justice

Shapiro, Joseph S.; Walker, Reed - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Do US air pollution offset markets disproportionately relocate pollution to or from low-income or minority communities? Concerns about an equal distribution of environmental quality across communities--environmental justice--have growing policy influence. We relate prices and quantities of...

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