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The paper presents estimation of the health losses from urban air pollution in Ukraine. The methodology developed by US … total, air pollution related mortality represents about 6 percent of total mortality in Ukraine. In Russia the corresponding … indicator totals about 4 percent. The relative mortality risk attributed to air pollution calculated per 100 000 population in …
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marginal aggregate benefit function might be not so far from the true one and the aggregate pollution level attained by the …
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Although based on theoretical foundations, the pollution haven hypothesis has never been clearly proven empirically. In … part of the Commonwealth of Independent States countries. Finally, we show that the pollution haven hypothesis is confirmed …
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Tourism and environmental preservation are often conflicting activities, mainly in areas such as coastal lagoons, where seaside mass-tourism comes into contact with a very sensitive ecological system. In this paper we deal with a classical problem of both environmental and tourism economics, the...
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We consider an optimal consumption and pollution problem that has two important features. Environmental damages due to …
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Taking as given that we are consuming too much and that overconsumption leads to environmental degradation, the present paper examines the regulator's choices between informative advertisement and consumption taxation. We model overconsumption by considering individuals that care about social...
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The paper investigates the relationship between environmental participation and littering. Previous empirical work in the area of littering is scarce as is evidence regarding the determinants of littering behavior. We address these deficiencies, demonstrating a strong empirical link between...
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can establish the overall pollution-reduction goal for a cap-and-trade system by setting the cap, and leave it up to the … theory and in practice. A number of factors can call the independence property into question theoretically, including market …
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We re-examine the impact of environmental taxation on health and output, in the presence of labor market frictions. Our main findings are that matching process and wage bargaining introduce new channels of transmission of environmental taxation on the economy such that assuming perfect labor...
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The introduction of the U.S. SO2 allowance-trading program to address the threat of acid rain as part of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 is a landmark event in the history of environmental regulation. The program was a great success by almost all measures. This paper, which draws upon a...
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