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Internalizing negative environmental impacts from wind power production: Coasian bargaining, offsetting schemes and environmental taxes
Greaker, Mads; Hagem, Cathrine; Skulstad, Andreas - 2022
On the one hand, wind power production is necessary for decarbonizing the electricity sector. On the other hand, we risk replacing one environmental problem with other environmental problems, that is, stopping climate change in exchange with increased loss of pristine land and biodiversity. The...
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How Should the World Bank Estimate Air Pollution Damages?
Cropper, Maureen; Khanna, Shefali - 2014
We evaluate the approach currently used by the World Bank to measure exposure to outdoor air pollution and associated economic costs, as reported in the World Development Indicators database. We recommend that current exposure estimates, based on an econometric model, be replaced by estimates...
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What Do Respondents Bring to Contingent Valuation? A Comparison of Monetary and Labor Payment Vehicles
Vondolia, Godwin Kofi; Eggert, Hakan; Navrud, Stale; … - 2011
With contingent valuation, both the goods being valued and the payment vehicles used to value them are mostly hypothetical. However, although numerous studies have examined the impact of experience with the good on willingness to pay, less attention has been given to experience with payment...
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The Use of Hypothetical Baselines in Stated Preference Surveys
Whittington, Dale; Adamowicz, Wiktor - 2011
Researchers using stated preference (SP) techniques have increasingly come to rely on what we call “hypothetical baselines.” By this we mean that respondents are provided with a description of a current state, or baseline, but that this baseline is intentionally not the actual state of...
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Colombia's Discharge Fee Program: Incentives for Polluters or Regulators?
Blackman, Allen - 2005
Colombia’s discharge fee system for water effluents is often held up as a model of a well-functioning, economic-incentive pollution control program in a developing country. Yet few objective, up-to-date evaluations of the program have appeared. Based on a variety of primary and secondary...
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Muddling Through while Environmental Regulatory Capacity Evolves: What Role for Voluntary Agreements?
Blackman, Allen; Sisto, Nicholas - 2005
The city of León, Guanajuato, is Mexico’s leather goods capital and a notorious environmental hotspot. Over the past two decades, four high-profile voluntary agreements aimed at controlling pollution from León’s tanneries have yielded few concrete results. To understand why, this paper...
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Understanding Errors in EIA Projections of Energy Demand
Fischer, Carolyn; Herrnstadt, Evan; Morgenstern, Richard D. - 2008
This paper investigates the potential for systematic errors in the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) widely … quantities. Overall, based on an analysis of the EIA’s 22-year projection record, we find a fairly modest but persistent tendency … individual fuels/consuming sectors routinely reported by the EIA, we observe a great deal of directional consistency in the error …
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Valuing financial, health, and environmental benefits of Bt cotton in Pakistan
Kouser, Shahzad; Qaim, Matin - 2012
Data from a farm survey and choice experiment are used to value the benefits of Bt cotton in Pakistan. Unlike previous research on the economic impacts of Bt, which mostly concentrated on financial benefits in terms of gross margins, we also quantify and monetize positive externalities...
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The impacts of alternative policy instruments on environmental performance. A firm level study of temporary and persistent effects
Bye, Brita; Klemetsen, Marit E. - 2014
We study the effects of various environmental regulations on environmental performance measured as emission intensity …
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On the effects of linking voluntary cap-and-trade systems for CO2 emissions
Weitzman, Martin L.; Holtsmark, Bjart - 2018
Linkage of cap-and-trade systems is typically advocated by economists on a general analogy with the beneficial linking of free-trade areas and on the specific grounds that linkage will ensure cost effectiveness among the linked jurisdictions. An appropriate and widely accepted specification for...
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