n order to analyze competition in gas markets, an intermediate activity of storage is included in a classical model of vertical relations. In that case, firms can inject or withdraw strategically natural gas resource. The access to the storage facility can deteriore the welfare since it incites...

n order to analyze competition in gas markets, an intermediate activity of storage is included in a classical model of vertical relations. In that case, firms can inject or withdraw strategically natural gas resource. The access to the storage facility can deteriore the welfare since it incites...

Under reasonable conditions, noncompliance with an emissions tax has no effect on environmental outcomes or the efficient allocation of individual emissions control. Moreover, differences in individual tax violations are independent of firm-level differences. All of these desirable...

When a firm is regulated by multiple environmental programs, the firm may manage its compliance with these programs systematically so that the regulation of one program can affect firm decisions regarding compliance with other programs. Faced with budget constraints on compliance expenditure, a...

This paper extends Ito et al. (2010) to reveal whether altruism is an underlying motive of the behavioral thresholds. We also investigate the influence of environmental concern as one of the underlying motives of them. Applying contingent valuation (CV) methods, we conducted a stated preference...

This study uses the data from 57 countries during 1995 to 2005 to investigate the effects of economic growth on air pollution under regimes of corruption. A threshold and bootstrap approach is used to test whether the threshold effects exist in a pollution model. Our results show that economic...

Although numerous studies on the economic growth-environment nexus exist, relatively little attention has been paid to model the effect of income on the environment, controlling for other relevant factors. The primary contribution of this paper is to examine the environmental consequences of...

We make use of a bootstrap panel analysis of causality between energy use and economic growth for a sample of sixteen African countries over the period 1988-2010. Our results show that growth and energy use are strongly linked in Africa. However, African countries are heterogeneous and there is...

This paper investigates the cost of biomass co-firing in European coal plants. We propose an original method to get expressions of biomass and CO2 breakeven points: carbon switching price and biomass switching price. They correspond to carbon and biomass prices that make coal plants equally...

As part of the Copenhagen Accord, countries have submitted emission reduction pledges for 2020. Using a long term optimisation model (TIAM-FR), we evaluate the implications of these submissions for emission reductions, carbon prices and total cost of the energy system. Our study finds that the...