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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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The implementation of marginal external cost pricing in road transport

Verhoef, Erik T. - 1998

This paper discusses a number of issues that will become increasingly important nowthat the concept of marginal external cost pricing becomes more likely to be implementedas a policy strategy in transport in reality. The first part of the paper deals with thelong-run efficiency of marginal...

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General geographical economics model with congestion

Marrewijk, Charles van - 2005

We derive and discuss a general, but simple geographical economics model with congestion, allowing us to explain the economic viability of small and large locations. The model generalizes some previous work and lends itself to analyzing the impact of public policy in terms of infrastructure...

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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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Capacity choice of dams under rivalry use and externalities

Houba, Harold; Kim Hang Pham Do; Zhu, Xueqin - 2014

This paper studies the relation between optimal dam capacity and water management under rivalry uses and externalities …-linear building cost of dam capacity and externalities in a welfare optimization model. We obtain the optimal dam capacity for multi …

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Degree centrality, von Neumann-Morgenstern expected utility and externalities in networks

Brink, René van den; Rusinowska, Agnieszka - 2023

Neumann-Morgenstern expected utility functions using cooperative game theory. The social network literature studies various … numbers of neighbours) of the positions in a network. Although this allows for externalities, in the sense that the … preferences of a position might depend on the way how other positions are connected, these externalities can be taken into account …

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