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This paper considers a permit market with both spatial and intertemporal trading. The intertemporal market allows firms to freely borrow or bank permits over a pre-specified period of time. When this period is over, the permit bank has to be balanced, so firms cannot avoid compliance just by...
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This paper considers a permit market with both spatial and intertemporal trading. The intertemporal market allows firms to freely borrow or bank permits over a pre-specified period of time. When this period is over, the permit bank has to be balanced, so firms cannot avoid compliance just by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010629357
The current study seeks to provide a sound analysis of the relationship between economic development and species loss in Sub-Saharan African countries. The motivation is that a better understanding of the impact of economic development on species loss is of great relevance, given the current...
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This paper focuses on consumer confusion when firms may choose between credible and non-credible certification systems … equilibria, in which either all firms select the credible certification or all firms select the non-credible certification. A … situation with numerous confused consumers is characterized by the complete absence of credible certification. …
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This paper uses a partial equilibrium trade model to evaluate British Columbia's (BC) log export restrictions. The …
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In this paper we examine the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis using the Ecological Footprint (EF), a more comprehensive indicator of environmental degradation, through a time-series analysis for seven Latin American countries covering the 1961-2007 period. We first test the EKC...
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The main originality of this paper is to empirically investigate the long-run relationship between average regional water consumption and its determinants. To do so, we use quarterly non-stationary panel data covering the six Tunisian regions for the period 1980.1 to 2007.4 and a breakdown into...
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The impact of the United States' and the European Union's subsidies on world cotton price has been an important subject in recent years. This paper examines the impact that the removal of these subsidies would have on Malian economy (GDP, public accounts, and households' income). The issue is...
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This paper investigates whether inherited legacies such as legal origin allow for the explanation of deforestation in 110 developed and developing countries. I hypothesize that differences on deforestation among countries can be attributed to their legal systems. Also, since nearly all common...
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Choke price data from the 2001 and 2006 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation (FHWAR) is used to construct welfare measures for wildlife-watching trips. Findings from an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition analysis showed them to be temporally reliable which favors...
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