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The relationship between the concept of option value in the literature on environmental preservation and the financial theory of option value is discussed by Fisher (2000), suggesting an equivalence between the two concepts. In a recent paper, Mensink and Requate (2004) argue that Fisher's claim...
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Seminal work by Weitzman (1974) revealed that prices are preferred to quantities when marginal benefits are relatively flat compared to marginal costs. We extend this comparison to indexed policies, where quantities are proportional to an index, such as output. We find that policy preferences...
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Market failures associated with environmental pollution interact with market failures associated with the innovation and diffusion of new technologies. These combined market failures provide a strong rationale for a portfolio of public policies that foster emissions reduction as well as the...
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This paper shows that tradable emissions permits and an emissions tax have a risk-related technology choice effect. We first examine the first- and second-order moments in the probability distributions of optimal abatement and production under the two instruments. The two instruments will, in...
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under uncertainty. A tax encourages the most flexible technology if and only if stochastic costs and the equilibrium permit …
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under uncertainty. The paper focuses on the heterogeneity of firm level investment responses to both demand and supply side … sources of uncertainty. Accordingly, the investment-uncertainty relationship is examined across groups of firms with varying … goods. Consistent with theories of irreversible investment, we find evidence that uncertainty undermines the investment …
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prices versus tradable quantities in terms of expected welfare, given uncertainty, optimal policy and endogenous cost …
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sharing, uncertainty is created which decreases cooperation by mothers by reducing their willingness to invest in children …
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Investment in pollution prevention technologies are often made under significant uncertainty about the future pay … the timing of investments becomes an important issue for the company. This paper focuses on uncertainty about a future … environmental tax, and shows, within a two period model, that a specific tax uncertainty, standing alone, does not create any …
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aggregate emission allowance supply is completely inelastic. Further, in the presence of uncertainty, elastic emission allowance …, depending on the risk environment the firms face. The results indicate that introduction of permit price stabilizing measures in …
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