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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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Limit pricing, climate policies, and imperfect substitution
Meijden, Gerard van der; Withagen, Cees - 2016
The effects of climate policies are often studied under the assumption of perfectly competitive markets for fossil fuels. In this paper, we allow for monopolistic fossil fuel supply. We show that, if fossil and renewable energy sources are perfect substitutes, a phase will exist during which the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011556203
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010338456
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The regulation of input related externalities with heterogenous firms
Verhoef, Erik T.; Nijkamp, Peter - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000953518
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Externalities in the urban economy
Verhoef, Erik T.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2003
This paper is concerned with the economics of urban externalities. We start by reviewing the literature on urban … externalities, and observe that although many interesting contributions have been made, there seems to be sufficient scope and need … pursued in future research on urban externalities. These include (1) the explicit consideration of mutual interactions between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334355
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Geographical economics and the role of pollution on location
Marrewijk, Charles van - 2005
negative pollution externalities associated with local production. We distinguish between two goods (food and manufactures) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343294
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The trade-off between efficiency, effectiveness, and social feasiblity [feasibility] of regulating road transport externalities
Verhoef, Erik T.; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000902272
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013359048
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Economic growth and the volatility of foreign aid
Chervin, Michal; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - 2009
Foreign aid’s effectiveness in promoting economic growth remains mired in controversy.We examine the impact of the volatility of aid on economic growth, controlling for the level of aid. A four-year panel analysis is conducted encompassing 155 countries over the period 1966-2001. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011379530