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Learning abatement costs : on the dynamics of optimal regulation of experience goods
Hintermann, Beat; Lange, Andreas - 2012
We study the introduction of new technologies when their costs are subject to idiosyncratic uncertainty and can only be fully learned through individual experience. We set up a dynamic model of clean experience goods that replace old polluting consumption options and show how optimal regulation...
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Decentralized environmental regulations and plant-level productivity
Ghosal, Vivek; Stephan, Andreas; Weiss, Jan F. - 2018
Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to efficiency change and technical change. The data we use is from Sweden and for their pulp and paper industry, which is heavily regulated due to its historically large contribution...
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Cost-benefit analysis for green demonstrators : application to the container glass industry in France
Sadighi, Maryam; Ponssard, Jean-Pierre; Sanin, María … - 2024
Adopting disruptive technologies for decarbonizing hard-to-abate industrial sectors requires experimentation through demonstration (pilot) projects. However, from an economic perspective, the potential long-term benefits and the difficulties in designing relevant public policies are not...
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Embedded discounting
Sneum, Daniel Møller; Soysal, Emilie Rosenlund; Nesje, … - 2023
The appraisal of public investments is subject to formal guidelines which often require input prices, such as forecasted energy prices. Using Danish guidelines as a case study, we explore the discounting assumptions in these input prices and find rates ranging from 2.97% to 17.5%, markedly...
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Disposal of petroleum installations : major policy issues
Osmundsen, Petter; Tveterås, Ragnar - 2000
Following the Brent Spar controversy, the OSPAR countries reached a unanimous agreement in 1998 for the future rules for disposal of petroleum installations. The vast majority of existing offshore installations will be re-used or returned to shore for recycling or disposal. For installations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781556
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Asymmetric innovation agreements under environmental regulation
Aoyama, Naoto; Silva, Emilson C. D. - 2017
domestic welfare. We consider the potential implementation of three innovation agreements: cooperative research joint venture …
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Privacy regulation and quality-enhancing innovation
Lefouili, Yassine; Madio, Leonardo; Toh, Ying Lei - 2023
-enhancing innovation incentives by a monopolist-who derives revenues solely from disclosing user data to third parties-and consumer surplus …. If the share of privacy-concerned users is sufficiently small, privacy regulation has a negative effect on innovation and … effect on innovation. In this case, there is no trade-off between privacy and innovation and users always benefit from …
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Legal institutions, innovation and growth
Anderlini, Luca; Felli, Leonardo; Immordino, Giovanni; … - 2011
We analyze the relationship between legal institutions, innovation and growth. We compare a rigid (law set ex … welfare, amount of innovation and output growth at intermediate stages of technological development - periods when legal … excessive (greater than first-best) R&D investment and output growth. -- legal system ; commitment ; flexibility ; innovation …
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Internationally coordinated emission permit policies : an option for withdrawers from the Kyoto protocol?
Bednar-Friedl, Birgit; Farmer, Karl - 2009
This paper investigates the welfare costs of unilateral versus internationally coordinated emission permit policies in a two-country overlapping generations model with producer carbon emissions. We show that, for a net foreign debtor country, the domestic welfare costs of a unilateral domestic...
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Determinants of pollution abatement and control expenditure in Romania : a multilevel analysis
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2010
The transition process in Central and Eastern Europe was associated with growing environmental awareness. This paper analyses the determinants of Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure (PACE) at plant level in the case of Romania using survey data and a Multilevel Regression Model (MRM)....
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