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Urban Transport Policies and the Environment : Evidence from Italy

Percoco, Marco - 2014

The paper reviews urban transport policies in Italian cities and their impact on the concentration of NO2 and PM10. Using parametric and non-parametric techniques, it finds no significant effect of the policy actions currently implemented. Further, it finds evidence of a weak positive impact of...

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Compact or Spread-Out Cities : Urban Planning, Taxation, and the Vulnerability to Transportation Shocks

Gusdorf, Franck - 2013

This paper shows that cities made more compact by transportation taxation are more robust than spread-out cities to shocks in transportation costs. Such a shock, indeed, entails negative transition effects that are caused by housing infrastructure inertia and are magnified in low-density cities....

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Urban Cycling Tourism. How Can Bikes and Public Transport Ride Together for Sustainability?

Crotti, Daniele; Maggi, Elena; Pantelaki, Evangelia - 2022

In the last years, sustainable travels have included bike tourists visiting cities to enjoy cultural and urban environments. Yet, when considering cycling tourists’ intra-destination trips by motorized vehicles, the extent of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions could reduce the sustainability of...

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The Public Management of Risk : Separating Ex Ante and Ex Post Monitors

Hiriart, Yolande - 2010

When a firm undertakes risky activities, the conflict between social and private incentives to implement safety care requires public intervention which can take the form of both monetary incentives but also ex ante or ex post monitoring, i.e., before or after an accident occurs. We delineate the...

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The Effect of Allowance Allocations on Cap-and-Trade System Performance

Hahn, Robert W. - 2010

can establish the overall pollution-reduction goal for a cap-and-trade system by setting the cap, and leave it up to the …

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Who Should Bear the Cost of China’s Carbon Emissions Embodied in Goods for Exports?

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2013

has given rise to unprecedented environmental pollution and CO2 emissions. While estimates of the embedded CO2 emissions …

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Consumption and Precautionary Saving : An Empirical Analysis Under Both Financial and Environmental Risks

Baiardi, Donatella - 2014

This paper studies the empirical relationship between consumption and saving under two different sources of uncertainty: financial risk and environmental risk. The analysis is carried out using time series data for six advanced economies in the period 1965-2007. The results support the...

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Economic Growth and the Environment with Clean and Dirty Consumption

Orecchia, Carlo - 2014

is that the EKC is examined in the presence of pollution as a by product of consumption activities; also, pollution is a … environment, consumers do not consider directly pollution in the maximization problem and are assumed to choose between two … that substitution of dirty consumption with clean consumption alone is not sufficient to reduce environmental pollution …

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Emissions Trends and Labour Productivity Dynamics Sector Analyses of De-Coupling/Recoupling on a 1990-2005 Namea

Mazzanti, Massimiliano - 2009

delinking patterns across emissions. Trade expansion validates the pollution haven in some cases, but also show negative signs …

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Valuing Environmental Factors in Cost-Benefit Analysis Using Data Envelopment Analysis

Kuosmanen, Timo - 2007

Environmental cost-benefit analysis (ECBA) refers to social evaluation of investment projects and policies that involve significant environmental impacts. Valuation of the environmental impacts in monetary terms forms one of the critical steps in ECBA. We propose a new approach for environmental...

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