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Why does environmental policy in representative democracies tend to be inadequate? : a preliminary public choice analysis

Kollmann, Andrea; Schneider, Friedrich - 2010

. To identify the reasons for this insufficient implementation in the past decade the Public Choice theory is used. The …

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Is emission intensity or output u-shaped in the strictness of environmental policy

Dijkstra, Bouwe R.; Gil-Moltó, Maria J. - 2014

In a model where firms face a continuous choice of how much to invest in environmental innovation, we show that an ever stricter environmental policy does not always lead to ever cleaner production methods and ever lower production of polluting goods. It does so when the abatement technology is...

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Voluntary emission reductions, social rewards, and environmental policy

Rauscher, Michael (contributor) - 2006

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Achieving sustainable energy security : 2030 outlook for ASEAN, People Republic of China and India

Fan, Ying; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2015

The rapid growth of ASEAN economies, the People's Republic of China and India (called ACI henceforth) - major drivers …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300352

Bismarck's Health Insurance and the mortality decline

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Driva, Anastasia; Hornung, Erik - 2017 - This version: August 3, 2017

We investigate the impact on mortality of the world's first compulsory health insurance, established by Otto von Bismarck, Chancellor of the German Empire, in 1884. Employing a multi-layered empirical setup, we draw on international comparisons and difference-indifferences strategies using...

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"The way in which an experiment is conducted is unbelievably Important" : on the experimentation practices of economists and psychologists

Ortmann, Andreas - 2009

design and implementation characteristics such as the use of financial incentives, deception, and the way information is … does not make sense to report experimental results without reporting the design and implementation choices that were made …. -- Duhem-Quine problem ; experimental design ; experimental implementation ; financial incentives ; deception …

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The value of information in water quality monitoring and management

Luhede, Amelie; Yaqine, Houda; Bahmanbijari, Reza; … - 2023

Environmental managers face substantial uncertainty when deciding on management actions. To reduce this uncertainty prior to decision-making, collecting new data may help arrive at more informed decisions. Whether any resulting improvement in the decision will outweigh the cost of collecting the...

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Electoral incentives and firm behavior : evidence from U.S. power plant pollution abatement

Doyle, Matthew; Di Maria, Corrado; Lange, Ian; … - 2016

Researchers have utilized the fact that many states have term limits (as opposed to being eligible for re-election) for governors to determine how changes in electoral incentives alter state regulatory agency behavior. This paper asks whether these impacts spill over into private sector...

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Resolving intergenerational conflict over the environment under the Pareto criterion

Andersen, Torben M.; Bhattacharya, Joydeep; Liu, Pan - 2016 - This Version: August 10, 2016

We describe a "business as usual" (BAU) economy in which pollution is a by-product of productive activity by the current generation but "damages" production for future generations. Over time, conditions in the BAU economy become dire: it gets increasingly polluted, consumption falls and...

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Allowing for household preferences in emission trading : a contribution to the climate policy debate

Ahlheim, Michael; Schneider, Friedrich - 2000

In the context of emission trading it seems to be taken as given that people's preferences can be ignored with respect to the whole process of fixing emission targets and allocating emission permits to polluters. With this paper we want to reopen the debate on how citizens can be involved in...

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