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Optimal Monitoring to Implement Clean Technologies when Pollution is Random
Macho-Stadler, Ines; Pérez-Castrillo, David - 2021
We analyze a model where firms chose a production technology which, together with some random event, determines the final emission level. We consider the coexistence of two alternative technologies: a "clean" technology, and a "dirty" technology. The environmental regulation is based on taxes...
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Effects of Stricter Environmental Regulations on Resource Development
Lange, Ian - 2018
This analysis seeks to understand whether changes in oil regulation brought about by the shale revolution have restricted the pace of drilling and production. This hypothesis is tested using data on North Dakota and Montana both before and after North Dakota increased the level of bonding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915454
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The Demand for Global and Local Environmental Protection - Experimental Evidence from Climate Change Mitigation in Beijing
Löschel, Andreas - 2018
In this study, the real demand for global and local environmental protection in Beijing, China, is elicited and investigated. Participants from Beijing were offered the opportunity to contribute to voluntary climate change mitigation by purchasing permits from two Chinese CO2 emissions trading...
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On International Equity Weights and National Decision Making on Climate Change
Anthoff, David; Tol, Richard S. J. - 2021
assume a social welfare function and hence a particular attitude towards equity and justice. We show that previous approaches …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316482
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Pollution, Shadow Economy and Corruption : Theory and Evidence
Biswas, Amit K. - 2013
We study how the shadow economy affects pollution and how this effect depends on corruption levels in public … be accompanied by higher pollution levels. Our theoretical model predicts that controlling the levels of corruption can … limit the effect of the shadow economy on pollution. We use panel data covering the period from 1999–2005 from more than 100 …
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Inequality and the Social Cost of Carbon
Anthoff, David - 2016
This paper presents a novel way to disentangle inequality aversion over time from inequality aversion between regions in the computation of the Social Cost of Carbon. Our approach nests a standard efficiency based Social Cost of Carbon estimate and an equity weighted Social Cost of Carbon...
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Will Skycrapers Save the Planet? Building Height Limits and Urban Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Borck, Rainald - 2021
This paper studies the effectiveness of building height limits as a policy to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It shows that building height limits lead to urban sprawl and higher emissions from commuting. On the other hand, aggregate housing consumption may decrease which reduces emissions...
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Delayed Participation of Developing Countries to Climate Agreements : Should Action in the EU and US be Postponed?
Bosetti, Valentina - 2015
This paper analyses the cost implications for climate policy in developed countries if developing countries are unwilling to adopt measures to reduce their own GHG emissions. First, we assume that a 450 CO2 (550 CO2e) ppmv stabilisation target is to be achieved and that Non Annex1 (NA1)...
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Public Policies Against Global Warming
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2013
Judged by the principle of intertemporal Pareto optimality, insecure property rights and the greenhouse effect both imply overly rapid extraction of fossil carbon resources. A gradual expansion of demand-reducing public policies - such as increasing ad-valorem taxes on carbon consumption or...
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Climate Policies : A Burden or a Gain?
Bréchet, Thierry; Tulkens, Henry - 2021
That climate policies are costly is evident and therefore often creates major fears. But the alternative (no action) also has a cost. Mitigation costs and damages incurred depend on what the climate policies are; moreover, they are substitutes. This brings climate policies naturally in the realm...
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