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The Economics of Residential Solid Waste Management

Kinnaman, Thomas C.; Fullerton, Don - 2021

This paper provides a broad overview of recent trends in solid waste and recycling, related public policy issues, and … the economics literature devoted to these topics. Public attention to solid waste and recycling has increased dramatically … makers choose the efficient mix of policy levers to regulate solid waste and recycling activities. Economists have also …

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Economics of the Generation and Management of Municipal Solid Waste

Beede, David N.; Bloom, David E. - 2021

This paper examines the generation and management of solid waste (MSW) through the lens of economics. We estimate that … the global burden of MSW amounted to 1.3 billion metric tons in 1990, or 0.67 kilograms of waste per person per day … disposing of MSW vary widely across countries in accord with the nature of the waste stream and key features of the …

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Technology, International Trade, and Pollution from U.S. Manufacturing

Levinson, Arik - 2014

Total pollution emitted by U.S. manufacturers declined over the past 30 years by about 60 percent, even though real manufacturing output increased 70 percent. This improvement must result from a combination of two trends: (1) changes in production or abatement processes (quot;technologyquot;);...

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Accelerating Energy Innovation : Insights from Multiple Sectors

Henderson, Rebecca M. - 2015

Re-orienting current energy systems toward a far greater reliance on technologies with low or no carbon dioxide emissions is an immense challenge. At the broadest level the histories presented here are very much consistent with widely held views within the energy innovation policy literature. In...

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Buffering Volatility : A Study on the Limits of Germany's Energy Revolution

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2016

other renewables. To avoid any waste, the wind-solar market share in an autarchic solution must not be expanded to more than …

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Energy Policy with Externalities and Internalities

Allcott, Hunt - 2013

We analyze optimal policy when consumers of energy-using durables undervalue energy costs relative to their private optima. First, there is an Internality Dividend from Externality Taxes: aside from reducing externalities, they also offset distortions from underinvestment in energy efficiency....

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Neutralizing the Adverse Industry Impacts of Co2 Abatement Policies : What Does it Cost?

Bovenberg, A. Lans; Goulder, Lawrence H. - 2021

The most cost-effective policies for achieving CO2 abatement (e.g., carbon taxes) fail to get off the ground politically because of unacceptable distributional consequences. This paper explores CO2 abatement policies designed to address distributional concerns. Using an intertemporal numerical...

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Robust Decarbonization of the Us Power Sector : Policy Options

Stock, James H.; Stuart, Daniel N. - 2022

To reliably achieve deep decarbonization of the US power sector, a candidate policy must perform robustly across a range of possible future trajectories of demand, fossil fuel prices, and prices of new wind and solar capacity. Using a modified version of the NREL ReEDS model with scenarios that...

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Energy Sector

Popp, David; Pless, Jacquelyn; Hascic, Ivan; Johnstone, … - 2022

Historically, innovation in the energy sector proceeded slowly and entrepreneurial start-up firms played a relatively minor role. We argue that this may be changing. Energy markets are going through a period of profound structural change. The rise of hydrofracturing lowered fossil fuel prices so...

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Environmental Law and Policy

Revesz, Richard L. - 2010

This chapter for the Handbook of Law and Economics provides an economic perspective of environmental law and policy. We examine the ends of environmental policy, that is, the setting of goals and targets, beginning with normative issues, notably the Kaldor-Hicks criterion and the related method...

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