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have to exert separation effort to produce near-homogeneous waste streams suitable for recycling. Our model explicitly … guide recycling as well as legal disposal (landfilling) and illegal dumping. Both the number and level of taxes and …
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, we ask if it led to a "waste haven" effect, which would imply that countries with high disposal and recycling costs … disposal indeed started to export more waste towards lower cost countries as a result of this ban. We do not find consistent … evidence that more waste was exported to countries with lower recycling costs. Our results raise distributional questions about …
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We analyze recycling decisions for bioplastics using a natural field experiment. The potential environmental benefits … this recycling behavior exploits the setting of a lemonade tasting. In our experimental treatments, subjects are exposed to … different types of bioplastics logos on their cups as well as varying amounts of recycling information. We use two types of …
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In densely-populated countries and in particular in large metropolitan areas, the presence of so much human activity causes all sorts of negative externalities, for example traffic noise disturbance. These externalities call for corrective measures by the government. Economists have developed a...
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This study addresses the achievements of cooperative agreements in sustainable agriculture policy. After an economic analysis of multi-actor choice situations, it focuses the attention on the self-organizing potential of regional market parties in order to comply with environmental policy...
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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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Medical research suggests that particulate matter (PM) increases stress hormones, therefore increasing the feeling of stress, which has been hypothesised to induce individuals to take less risk. To examine this, we study whether PM increases the probability of drawing in chess games using...
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