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Theoretical and empirical aspects of policy failures due to subsidies are discussed in the context of international trade. A general classification of subsidies that cause environmental externalities is presented. The economic and environmental impacts of producer subsidies on international...
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, ‘pollution havens’ emerge in countries where environmental regulation is ‘over-lax.’ We examine the impact of pollution abatement … equilibrium model of trade and pollution nesting the pollution haven motive for trade with the factor endowment motive. We analyze …
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Up to now a clear theoretical and methodological framework for economic-environmental analysis of environmentally damaging subsidies is lacking. Environmentally damaging subsidies are all kinds of direct and indirect subsidies aimed at achieving a certain (often non-environmental) goal that...
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equilibrium framework. We investigate the impact of pollution by focusing on the interaction between location advantages and … negative pollution externalities associated with local production. We distinguish between two goods (food and manufactures) and … activity tends to become less attractive with pollution, and thus less likely. Moreover, we provide a simple necessary and …
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This provides a short overview of the main themes of ecological economics (EE). It isargued that EE provides a platform that fosters multidisciplinary environmental research bybringing together the core contributing disciplines economics and ecology. In addition, EE isregarded as a pluralistic...
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We take a decentralized approach to regulating environmental pollution in settings where each agent's pollution … possibly affects all others. There is no central agency to enforce pollution abatement or coordinate monetary transfers …
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This paper empirically studies how emission pricing affects capital replacement and adoption of embodied environmental technology. A pricing policy encourages firms to accelerate retirement of old capital assets and replace them with newer more efficient assets, but this may crowd out...
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, have lowered pollution intensities strongly; induced improvements in productivity have further reduced them; and trade … integration into the EU has had insignificant effects on emission intensities. We also do not find evidence of within-EU pollution …
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We propose the river pollution claims problem to distribute a pollution budget among agents located along a river. A … location of pollution along the river is an important concern in addition to fairness. We characterize the class of externality … propose two novel axioms that are motivated by the river pollution context and use them to characterize two priority rules. …
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