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The paper describes a relatively new approach to pollution reduction problem solving that relies on negotiation between … agreements between authorities and polluters. Design and results of a laboratory environmental policy experiment on air pollution … new institution for environmental pollution management in practice is the most important result. The case also shows the …
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The paper examines the determinants that influence the environmental innovation behaviour of companies in Germany in a multivariate context by using data from the Mannheimer Innovations Panel 1993, which was part of the Community Innovation Survey. The objective is to analyse the general...
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I model environmental overcompliance as a signalling device. In the model, a benevolent government may or may not …
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local pollutant. Governments use environmental policies, i.e., an emissions standard or a tax, to control pollution and for … demand, the cost of abatement and the damage caused from pollution. Under these modes of uncertainty we derive sufficient …
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applied in a numerical example with two regions (EU and CEECs) and two goods (pollution intensive good A and clean good B …
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This paper analyses two aspects of environmental regulations triggered by ecoinnovations. First, whether there are long term effects of regulation on innovation. Second, whether the impact of different types of regulation differ by type of the environmental benefit of the innovations. To answer...
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This paper analyses the conditions under which a group of firms has the incentive to sign a Voluntary Agreement (VA) in order to control its emission flows even in the presence of free-riding by other firms in the industry. For the purpose of this paper it is assumed that free-riders cannot be...
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This paper examines the link between pollution and income. It shows how income inequality affects environmental … policies and therefore pollution. The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis proposes that there is an inverted U …
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monitoring ambient pollution is low enough, the optimal inspection policy consists in imposing the maximal possible fine, and … mixing between observing ambient pollution and not conducting any inspection at all. However, with stringent upper limits on … the fine, the agency mixes between observing ambient pollution and inspecting all firms. The observation of ambient …
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in two large countries that are linked through trade flows and transboundary pollution. We show that, when governments … are not restricted in their ability to use trade barriers, environmental lobbying always results in higher pollution taxes …
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