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Wetlands provide many important goods and services to human societies, and generate nonuse values as well. Wetlands are also very sensitive ecosystems that are subject to much stress from human activities. Reducing the stress on wetlands requires a spatial matching between physical planning,...
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We empirically investigate the responsiveness of international trade to the stringency of environmental regulation …. Stringent environmental regulation may impair the export competitiveness of ‘dirty’ domestic industries, and as a result …, ‘pollution havens’ emerge in countries where environmental regulation is ‘over-lax.’ We examine the impact of pollution abatement …
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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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, suggestions are provided on how subsidy-related policy failures can be eliminated at national and international levels. …
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command-and-control policies. We compare the effects of a directtechnology regulation and of an adoption subsidy under … tocommit to her policy. The reason is that uncertainty about adoption costs induces the policymaker to set subsidy levels that … increase over time; firms, expecting higher subsidies in thefuture, postpone investment. Direct regulation offers a commitment …
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Wetlands all over the world have been lost or are threatened in spite of various international agreements and national policies. This is caused by: (1) the public nature of many wetlands products and services; (2) user externalities imposed on other stakeholders; and (3) policy intervention...
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This paper deals with the issue of regulatory reform in the airline industry, in connection with environmental externalities. Deregulation has led to shorter routes, higher frequencies, probably larger aircraft sizes and more intense peak traffic at airports. In addition, deregulation has led to...
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decreases with repetition. Theory predicts that repetition facilitates collusion among sellers in procurement auctions, while …
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