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"It pays to be green" - a premature conclusion?

Telle, Kjetil; Aslaksen, Iulie; Synnestvedt, Terje - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2004

It has been claimed that good environmental performance can improve firms’ economic performance. However, because of e.g. data limitations, the methods applied in most previous quantitative empirical studies of the relationship between environmental and economic performance of firms suffer...

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Do environmental regulations hamper productivity growth? How accounting for improvements of firms' environmental performance can change the conclusion

Telle, Kjetil; Larsson, Jan - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2004

productivity growth that accounts for emission reductions. To credit a firm for emission reductions, we include emissions as inputs … Malmquist productivity index (MI) where emissions are not included. The regression analysis shows that the sign of the …

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Profitability of different instruments in international climate policies

Aune, Finn Roar; Kverndokk, Snorre; Lindholt, Lars; … - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2005

This article discusses how different climate policy instruments such as CO2 taxes and renewable energy subsidies affect the profitability of fossil fuel production, given that a fixed global climate target shall be achieved in the long term. Within an intertemporal framework, the model analyses...

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Imperfect competition, sequential auctions, and emissions trading: An experimental evaluation

Søberg, Morten - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2000

This paper reports an experiment that studies the behavior of a monopolist on sequential auction markets for tradable permits. Using six sessions in a triple ABA crossover design, we investigate the cost-effectiveness of permit allocations and the division of trade gains on sequential bid,...

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Transboundary environmental policy effects: Markets and emission leakages

Bruvoll, Annegrete; Fæhn, Taran - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2004

According to the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) literature, several mechanisms within rich economies, including increased willingness to conduct abatement policies, contribute to reduce environmental problems. Unilateral environmental policies in open economies may affect other countries...

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Factoring the environmental Kuznets curve Evidence from Norway

Bruvoll, Annegrete; Medin, Hege - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2000

, we analyze the changes in environmentally damaging emissions to air in Norway from 1980 to 1996. In order to reveal the … factors which decrease the emissions per produced unit, these changes are subdivided into 8 components. Our analysis shows … that, holding emissions per produced unit constant, economic growth alone contributed to an increase in all emissions by …

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Uncertainty and International Negotiations on Tradable Quota Treaties

Søberg, Morten - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 1998

compensate for uncertainty are discussed here, extra emissions quotas and financial transfers. The latter is found to be more …

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Strategic Climate Policy in Small, Open Economies

Greaker, Mads; Rosendahl, Knut Einar - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2006

According to environmental interests groups governments should use their climate policy strategically in order to provide for a faster introduction of new, cleaner technologies. Strategic use of climate policy could also induce the development of a successful upstream abatement technology...

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Strategic Partitioning of Emissions Allowances. Under the EU Emission Trading Scheme

Böhringer, Christoph; Rosendahl, Knut Einar - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2008

member states must apply complementary domestic emissions regulation for the non-trading sectors of their economies in order … emissions budgets by the member states between trading and non-trading sectors. In this paper we examine the potential effects … of such strategic behavior on compliance cost and emissions prices. We show that concerns on efficiency losses from …

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Air Pollution and Sick-leaves - is there a Connection? A Case Study using Air Pollution Data from Oslo

Hansen, Anett C.; Selte, Harald K. - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 1997

In recent years a growing number of studies have been discussing the relationship between air pollution and human health. The evidence in the literature for adverse health effects of several pol-lutants seems convincing. In our article we are concerned with to which extent these health effects...

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