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Should we be worried about the green paradox? Announcement effects of the acid rain program

Di Maria, Corrado; Lange, Ian; van der Werf, Edwin - 2012

This paper presents the first empirical test of the green paradox hypothesis, according to which well-intended but imperfectly implemented policies may lead to detrimental environmental outcomes due to supply side responses. We use the introduction of the Acid Rain Program in the U.S. as a case...

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Flexible waste management under uncertainty

Di Corato, Luca; Montinari, Natalia - 2013

In this paper, we use stochastic dynamic programming to model the choice of a municipality which has to design an optimal waste management program under uncertainty about the price of recyclables in the secondary market. The municipality can, by undertaking an irreversible investment, adopt a...

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Municipal Waste Selection and Disposal: Evidences from Lombardy

Silvestri, Francesco; Ghinoi, Stefano - 2015

This article exploit a data base of 1.522 observations related to Lombardy's municipalities to run a cross sectional estimation of the drivers of MW selection. We find no evidence of a significant correlation between the percentage of selected MW selection and market variables such as the unit...

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The Conservation versus Production Trade-off: Does Livestock Intensification Increase Deforestation? The Case of the Brazilian Amazon

Vale, Petterson Molina - 2015

More cattle, less deforestation? Land use intensification in the Amazon is an unexpected phenomenon. Theories of hollow frontier, speculative behaviour and boom-bust all share the prediction that livestock production will remain largely extensive. Yet between 1996 and 2006 productivity of cattle...

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Regulating the Environmental Consequences of Preferences for Social Status within an Evolutionary Framework

Sartzetakis, Eftichios S.; Xepapadeas, Anastasios; … - 2015

Taking as given that we are consuming too much and that overconsumption leads to environmental degradation, the present paper examines the regulator's choices between informative advertisement and consumption taxation. We model overconsumption by considering individuals that care about social...

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Empirical Analysis of National Income and So2 Emissions in Selected European Countries

Markandya, Anil; Pedroso, Suzette; Golub, Alexander - 2004

Data on GDP per capita and sulfur emissions for twelve European countries were analyzed to determine the relationship between emissions and income in these countries. As a whole, the relationship between sulfur emissions and per capita income is a fourth order polynomial and not a quadratic one...

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Nonlinearity, Heterogeneity and Unobserved Effects in the CO2-income Relation for Advanced Countries

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Musolesi, Antonio - 2013

We study long run carbon emissions-income relationships for advanced countries grouped in policy relevant groups: North America and Oceania, South Europe, North Europe. By relying on recent advances on Generalized Additive Mixed Models (GAMMs) and adopting interaction models, we handle...

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Can Property Values Capture Changes in Environmental Health Risks? Evidence from a Stated Preference Study in Italy and the UK

Guignet, Dennis; Alberini, Anna - 2013

among hypothetical variants of their home that differ in terms of mortality risks from air pollution and price. To our … quantitative and clearly specified measure of health risks. We find that Italian homeowners hold a value of a statistical life (VSL … find that those who face higher baseline risks, due to higher air pollution levels where they live, hold a higher VSL …

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Climate Engineering under Deep Uncertainty and Heterogeneity

Emmerling, Johannes; Manoussi, Vassiliki; Xepapadeas, … - 2016

Climate Engineering, and in particular Solar Radiation Management (SRM) has become a widely discussed climate policy option to study in recent years. However, its potentially strategic nature and unforeseen side effects provide major policy and scientific challenges. We study the role of the SRM...

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An Analysis of Water Security under Climate Change

Cappelli, Federica - 2017

distribution of resources, competition among its uses, ecosystems conservation, climate-related disasters and risks and several …

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