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the effects of regulation on the timing and magnitudes of investments by firms and on the impact it has had on their …
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The Development Marketplace 2009 focused on adaptation to climate change. This paper identifies lessons from the Marketplace and assesses their implications for adaptation support. Our findings are based on: statistical tabulation of all proposals; in-depth qualitative and quantitative analysis...
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determined to be harmful to human health. Throughout the 1990s and beyond, California and France both chose to improve air …
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externalities like human health or resource conservation, including those related to combating global climate change. The strategic …
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environmental externalities are large enough relative to political distortions. Climate finance is an effective alternative if …
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pollution on health and the private decision of each working-age agent to improve her health are taken into account. Especially …, a tighter environmental tax is more likely to promote (rather than to harm) output-level and growth when health is very … sensitive to pollution, the weight of health in preferences is high, the polluting capacity of the production technology is high …
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We re-examine the impact of environmental taxation on health and output, in the presence of labor market frictions. Our … taxation on health. We also demonstrate that rising abatement expenditures as a way of tightening the environmental policy … would be better for health than increasing environmental tax in the presence of market labor imperfections. …
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externalities. These case studies for Belgium confirm earlier results of the ExternE project that external environmental costs of … car transport are significant and that damage to public health is the dominant impact. In addition, it shows that … externalities of urban peak traffic are 2 to 4 times higher than for normal urban driving conditions. Finally, it calculates which …
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This paper presents a micro-econometric model testing for changes in firms' product and pricing decisions in two …. Findings from the empirical analysis not only show the significance of debt's proportion in firms' financial structure, but …
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Nowadays, a process can be observed in Germany where electricity producing and trading firms react to the electricity … electricity market by a computational game theoretic model. Calculations with this model show that when German firms act … strategically (e.g. a change in action of one firm affects the electricity price and, hence, the payoffs of other firms), the …
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