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Aalbers, Rob F.; Vollebergh, Herman R. J. - 2005

Using a general equilibrium model with heterogeneous waste, this paper studies optimal waste policy when households have to exert separation effort to produce near-homogeneous waste streams suitable for recycling. Our model explicitly allows for changes in the composition (quality) of waste...

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Sharing the cost of cleaning up a polluted river

Li, Wenzhong; Xu, Genjiu; Brink, René van den - 2021

Consider a group of agents located along a polluted river where every agent must pay a certain cost for cleaning up the polluted river. Following the model of Ni and Wang (2007), we propose the class of α-Local Responsibility Sharing methods, which generalizes the Local Responsibility Sharing...

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The pollution effects of mergers and acquisitions : asymmetry, disaggregation, and multilateralism

Swart, Julia; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2011

This paper studies the impact of cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As) on Carbon Dioxide emissions. Carbon Dioxide is the main anthropogenic greenhouse gas. A global problem that requires a multilateral solution. To take this into account we introduce an institutional variable, which...

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Competing recombinant technologies for environmental innovation

Zeppini, Paolo; Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2010

This article presents a model of sequential decisions about investments in environmentally dirty and clean technologies, which extends the path-dependence framework of Arthur (1989). This allows us to evaluate if and how an economy locked into a dirty technology can be unlocked and move towards...

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Price and income elasticities of residential water demand : why empirical estimates differ

Dalhuisen, Jasper M.; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Groot, … - 2001

This paper presents a meta-analysis of variations in price and income elasticities of residential water demand … policy-making. It is also crucial for effective water demand management. We focus on theapplication of statistical methods to … empirical estimates of the price and income elasticity ofresidential water demand vary to such considerable extents. The set of …

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Enhancing efficiency of water provision

Dalhuisen, Jasper M.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2002

One of the policy options to increase the efficiency in the provision of scarce water resources is a reduction in … transaction costs in water chains by developing integrated forms of water management. Integrated water management in case of river … addressing the entire water chain, (4) integrated strategies regarding all water functions in relation to other relevant spatial …

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Emission pricing and capital replacement : evidence from aircraft fleet renewal

Jong, Gerben de - 2022

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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On the effectiveness of feed-in tariffs in the development of photovoltaic solar

Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Dorp, Tom van; Maasland, Emiel - 2014

Growing concern for climate change and rising scarcity of fossil fuels prompted governments to stimulate the development of renewables. This paper empirically tests whether feed-in tariff (FIT) policies have been effective in the development of photovoltaic solar (PV), explicitly taking into...

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Asymmetric Nash solutions in the river sharing problem

Houba, Harold; Laan, Gerard van der; Zeng, Yuyu - 2013

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Environmental policy choice under uncertainty

Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Swank, Otto H. - 2003

Market-based instruments are believed to create more efficient incentives for firmsto adopt new technologies than command-and-control policies. We compare the effects of a directtechnology regulation and of an adoption subsidy under asymmetric information about the costsof technological advances...

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