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The adoption of energy efficiency enhancing technologies
Verhoef, Erik T.; Nijkamp, Peter - 1997
This paper analyses the adoption of energy-efficiency enhancing technologies by heterogeneous firms. The fact that energy use does not only cause external environmental costs through pollution, but also directly affects the profitability of the firm and hence its behaviour on input and output...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011382078
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Evolutionary thinking in environmental economics
Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2007
Evolutionary and environmental economics have a potentially close relationship. This paper reviews past and identifies potential applications of evolutionary concepts and methods to environmental economics. This covers a number of themes: resource use and ecosystem management; growth and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011350354
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333273
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Determining the environmental effects of indirect subsidies
Beers, Cees van; Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den; Moor, … - 2004
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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Advances in environmental economics : analysis and modelling
Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den; Nijkamp, Peter - 1998
This paper gives a concise overview of environmental-economicanalysis. Important issues and modern developments in the field aresurveyed in a systematic way. Next, the concept of sustainabledevelopment is discussed, as it has dominated environmental economicsfor almost a decade now. In addition,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011299973
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Models of individual behavior and implications for environmental policy
Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; … - 1998
, formulated in terms of maximization of utility ingeneral, or profits in particular. The standard theory of environmental policy … behavioural assumptions have been most significant for the development ofeconomic valuation theory and environmental policy theory …. The focus here will be onenvironmental policy theory. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300569
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Ecological economics : themes, approaches, and differences with environmental economics
Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2000 - Rev. version, September 2000
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011304408
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Geographical economics and the role of pollution on location
Marrewijk, Charles van - 2005
Geographical economics analyzes the endogenous determination of the location of economic activity in a general equilibrium framework. We investigate the impact of pollution by focusing on the interaction between location advantages and negative pollution externalities associated with local...
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