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The Use of Group-Level Approaches to Environmental and Natural Resource Policy
Kotchen, Matthew; Segerson, Kathleen - 2022
Policies to address environmental and natural resource management are often implemented at the group level. The defining feature of such policies is that penalties or rewards are based on group rather than individual performance, or rights are allocated to a group rather than to individuals....
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The Case for a Two-Part Instrument : Presumptive Tax and Environmental Subsidy
Fullerton, Don; Wolverton, Maryann - 2021
combination of a presumptive tax and an environmental subsidy. A presumptive tax is a tax that is imposed under the presumption … that all production uses a dirty technology or all consumption goods become waste. The environmental subsidy is then … usefulness of the tax-subsidy combination, we review conceptual considerations regarding its implementation and practical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227504
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Using Field Experiments in Environmental and Resource Economics
List, John A. - 2013
This study showcases the usefulness of field experiments to the study of environmental and resource economics. Our focus pertains to work related to field experiments in the area of 'behavioral' environmental and resource economics. Within this rubric, we discuss research in two areas: those...
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How Can Behavioral Economics Inform Non-Market Valuation? an Example from the Preference Reversal Literature
Alevy, Jonathan E. - 2010
Psychological insights have made inroads within most major areas of study in economics. One area where less advance has been made is environmental and resource economics. In this study, we examine the implications of preference reversals over evaluation modes, in which stated economic values...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142937
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The Environment and Directed Technical Change
Acemoglu, Daron - 2010
This paper introduces endogenous and directed technical change in a growth model with environmental constraints and limited resources. A unique final good is produced by combining inputs from two sectors. One of these sectors uses "dirty" machines and thus creates environmental degradation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013150439
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From Growth to Green Growth - a Framework
Hallegatte, S. - 2012
Green growth is about making growth resource-efficient, cleaner and more resilient without slowing it. This paper aims at clarifying this in an analytical framework and proposing foundations for green growth. This framework identifies channels through which green policies can potentially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110475
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The Effect of Interventions to Reduce Fertility on Economic Growth
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2011
quantitative macroeconomic theory. We apply the model to examine the effect of a change in fertility from the UN medium-variant to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120983
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The Value of Secure Property Rights : Evidence from Global Fisheries
Grainger, Corbett A. - 2011
Property rights are commonly touted as a solution to common pool resource problems. But in practice the security of these property rights varies substantially owing to differences in design. In fisheries, the design of individual transferable quotas (ITQs) varies widely; the consequences of...
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Trade, Tragedy, and the Commons
Copeland, Brian R.; Taylor, M. Scott - 2021
We develop a theory of resource management where the degree to which countries escape the tragedy of the commons is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247854
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Institutions, Factor Prices and Taxation : Virtues of Strong States?
Acemoglu, Daron - 2010
Many of the most pernicious economic institutions and policies create entry barriers or manipulate factor prices to transfer resources from entrepreneurs and workers to groups that hold political power. These inefficiencies partly result from the fact that direct and efficient fiscal instruments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148384