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The Economics of Residential Solid Waste Management
Kinnaman, Thomas C. - 1999
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471458
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Garbage and Recycling in Communities with Curbside Recycling and Unit-Based Pricing
Kinnaman, Thomas C. - 1997
This paper estimates the impact of a user fee and a curbside recycling program on garbage and recycling amounts … policies and the levels of garbage and recycling collected in the community. A simple sequential model of local policymaking is … cross-section of towns without user fees but with and without curbside recycling programs. The combined data set is larger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472797
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How a Fee Per-Unit Garbage Affects Aggregate Recycling in a Model with Heterogeneous Households
Kinnaman, Thomas C. - 1994
This paper develops a utility maximizing model of household choice among garbage disposal, recycling, and littering … recycling. The model explains (1) why some households participate in curbside recycling programs even in the absence of a user …-wide quantities of garbage, recycling, and litter. We show how an increase in the user fee can decrease aggregate recycling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474002
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The Circular Economy
Fullerton, Don - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Research about the circular economy is dominated by engineers, architects, and social scientists in fields other than economics. The concepts they study can be useful in economic models of policies - to reduce virgin materials extraction, to encourage green design, and to make better use of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544698
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What Gets Measured Gets Managed : Investment and the Cost of Capital
He, Zhiguo; Liao, Guanmin; Wang, Baolian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study the impact of government-led incentive systems by examining a staggered reform in the Chinese state-owned enterprise (SOE) performance evaluation policy. To improve capital allocative efficiency, in 2010, regulators switched from using return on equity (ROE) to economic value added...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938744
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Offshore Hedge Funds : Survival and Performance 1989-1995
Brown, Stephen J. - 1997
We examine the performance of the offshore hedge fund industry over the period 1989 through 1995 using a database that includes defunct as well as currently operating funds. The industry is characterized by high attrition rates of funds and little evidence of differential manager skill. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472919
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Performance Evaluation of Zero Net-Investment Strategies
Jordà, Òscar - 2011
This paper introduces new nonparametric statistical methods to evaluate zero-cost investment strategies. We focus on directional trading strategies, risk-adjusted returns, and the investor's decisions under uncertainty as the core of our analysis. By relying on classification tools with a long...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461508
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Measuring Firm Environmental Performance to Inform Asset Management and Standardized Disclosure
Muller, Nicholas Z. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Investing according to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria is gaining momentum. Most environmental performance indices focus only on the tonnage of carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions. This paper proposes an index covering eight pollutants expressed in monetary damage. Inclusion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696363
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The Case for a Two-Part Instrument : Presumptive Tax and Environmental Subsidy
Fullerton, Don - 1997
This paper builds two simple general equilibrium models to demonstrate the equivalence between the Pigovian tax and the 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472825
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Economics of the Generation and Management of Municipal Solid Waste
Beede, David N. - 1995
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. Industrial countries account for a disproportionate share of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473770