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In this paper, we extend the well known result that hyperbolically discounting agents tend to postpone costs into the future. In a simple model we show that, without commitment to the ex ante optimal plan, no investment in environmental protection is undertaken over the whole time horizon, no...
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potential explana- tion of an N-shaped pollution-income relation. Finally, it is shown that the model is compatible with most …
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This paper analyses two aspects of environmental regulations triggered by ecoinnovations. First, whether there are long term effects of regulation on innovation. Second, whether the impact of different types of regulation differ by type of the environmental benefit of the innovations. To answer...
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that pollution becomes negative in the long run. This, of course, is a highly implausible prediction. The paper at hand … examines the problem of negative pollution by, ¯rst, critically discussing two approaches adopted in existing EKC models and … the theo- retical problem of negative pollution, but also does well regarding the empirical plausibility of the abatement …
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We study the optimal control of a pollutant that accumulates with a delay.We find that optimal paths are, in general, non-monotonic and oscillatory, but monotonic if the objective function is additively separable. Hence, using additively separable objective functions as an approximation to a...
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Im Rückgriff auf die Innovationsforschung wird ein Ansatz für eine gemeinsame Sprache und eine konsistente Systematik für Innovationen im Umweltbereich entwickelt. Dazu werden einige allgemeine Begriffsdefinitionen der Innovationsforschung erläutert, der Begriff Umweltinnovation eingeführt...
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Large-scale environmental programs generally commit substantial societal resources, making the evaluation of their actual effects on the relevant outcomes imperative. As the example of the subsidization of energy-saving appliances illustrates, much of the applied environmental economics...
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The interaction between habit formation and pollution-type ex- ternalities modifies the social optimum through discount …
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Environmental pollution adversely affects children’s probability to survive to adulthood, reduces thus parental … inequality and pollution on children’s health may be amplified, if the population group that is least affected decides about tax …-financed abatement measures. Our theory provides a candidate explanation for (1) the observed positive correlation between inequality and …
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Within the economic profession, it is a widely held view that the fiscal criteria of the Maastricht treaty are arbitrary numbers without economic foundation. Much of this criticism seems to overlook an important aspect - the strategic dimension of the criteria. This paper focuses on one...
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