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has been made to 'green' the economy, an important challenge that remains is to internalize global and local externalities …
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Much of the literature on externalities has considered taxes and direct regulation as alternative policy instruments … use of taxes and regulation in combination, to control externalities arising from individual consumption behaviour. We … consider cases where taxes are either imperfectly differentiated to reflect individual differences in externalities, or where …
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The goal of this paper is to bring some unity to the theoretical side of the debate on internalization of airport congestion by showing that all the literature's theoretical results can be derived within one simple and unified framework. The analysis starts by replicating the results of...
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Economic models of climate policy (or policies to combat other environmental problems) typically neglect psychological adaptation to changing life circumstances. People may adapt or become more sensitive, to different degrees, to a deteriorated environment. The present paper addresses these...
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of externalities linked to one another through markets rather than technical production relationships. Analytical results …
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internalize consumption services externalities. In the case of an open access habitat additional sources of inefficiency are the …
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internalize consumption externalities. It is demonstrated that the optimal second-best tax on an externality-generating good …
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We extend the model of Fullerton, Karney, and Baylis (2012 working paper) to explore cost-effectiveness of unilateral climate policy in the presence of leakage. We ignore the welfare gain from reducing greenhouse gas emissions and focus on the welfare cost of the emissions tax or permit scheme....
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High transaction costs and thin participation plague water quality trading and prevent markets from delivering expected efficiency gains. Point sources generate a single pollutant, while nonpoint sources generate multiple, complementary pollutants. We develop a dynamic search model of...
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International climate negotiations take place in a setting where uncertainties regarding the impacts of climate change are very large. In this paper, we examine the influence of increasing the probability and impact of large climate change damages, also known as the ‘fat tail’, on the...
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