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Regulating environmental threats
Tsur, Yacov; Zemel, Amos - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 39 (2008) 3, pp. 297-310
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Environmental Satellite Models for a Macroeconomic Model
Møller, Frits; Grinderslev, Dorte; Werner, Morten - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 24 (2003) 3, pp. 197-212
To support national environmental policy, it is desirable to forecast and analyse environmental indicators consistently with economic variables. However, environmental indicators are physical measures linked to physical activities that are not specified in economic models. One way to deal with...
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Economic Impacts of the 1997 EU Energy Tax: Simulations with Three EU-Wide Models
Jansen, Heinz; Klaassen, Ger - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 15 (2000) 2, pp. 179-197
macroeconomic impacts when the tax revenuesare used to reduce social security contributions paidby employers. For the EU as a whole … ormacro-econometric), the EU countries covered and theway tax exemptions were handled. Crucial assumptionsto obtain the … ``double dividend'' are the modelling ofthe labour market and the impacts on EU externaltrade. The sensitivity of the results …
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Behavioral Environmental Economics: Promises and Challenges
Croson, Rachel; Treich, Nicolas - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 58 (2014) 3, pp. 335-351
Environmental issues provide a rich ground for identifying the existence and consequences of human limitations. In this paper, we present a growing literature lying at the interface between behavioral and environmental economics. This literature identifies alternative solutions to traditional...
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Can Defaults Save the Climate? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Carbon Offsetting Programs
Araña, Jorge; León, Carmelo - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 54 (2013) 4, pp. 613-626
Individual preferences for environmental policies can be influenced by the frame in which choices and decisions are presented. In this paper we present results of a field experiment on the contributions to carbon offsetting programs under two alternative treatments for the default option. The...
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The Cost-Effective Choice of Policy Instruments to Cap Aggregate Emissions with Costly Enforcement
Caffera, Marcelo; Chávez, Carlos - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 50 (2011) 4, pp. 531-557
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Environmental Abatement and the Macroeconomy in the Presence of Ecological Thresholds
Heijdra, Ben; Heijnen, Pim - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 55 (2013) 1, pp. 47-70
We study the environmental and economic effects of public abatement in the presence of multiple stable steady-state ecological equilibria featuring reversible hysteresis. The isocline for the stock of pollution possesses two stable branches. Assuming that the ecology is initially located on the...
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Endogenous Lobby Formation and Endogenous Environmental Protection with Unilateral Tariff Reduction
Kawahara, Shinya - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 57 (2014) 1, pp. 41-57
This paper studies how one country’s decision to liberalize trade affects the political economic structure that determines environmental policy in another country. By constructing a political economy model in which the formation of lobby groups and environmental policy are endogenously...
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Investment Incentives Under Emission Trading: An Experimental Study
Camacho-Cuena, Eva; Requate, Till; Waichman, Israel - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 53 (2012) 2, pp. 229-249
This paper presents the results of an experimental investigation on incentives to adopt advanced abatement technology under emissions trading. Our experimental design mimics an industry with small asymmetric polluting firms regulated by different schemes of tradable permits. We consider three...
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Heterogeneous Preferences for Community Recycling Programs
Kipperberg, Gorm; Larson, Douglas - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 53 (2012) 4, pp. 577-604
This paper examines household preferences for community recycling programs, which have both public and private good dimensions. The data come from a survey conducted in Seattle (WA) which elicited stated preference-contingent ratings for different recycling programs relative to status quo, with...
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