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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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The costs of energy supply disruptions for industrialised economies go well beyond the economic measures of national accounts. According to different kinds of risks, physical shortages or price shocks, there are several categories of negative effects. Oil disruptions have both a direct and an...
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economy - the Philippines. The simulation results indicate that tariff reductions undertaken by the Philippine government …
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This study explores the link between environmental degradation, economic growth and income inequality within the framework of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. To investigate this issue, we examine how inequality affects carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their relationship with...
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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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This paper concerns optimal emissions of greenhouse gases when catastrophic consequences are possible. A numerical model is presented which takes into account both continuous climate-feedback damages as well as the possibility of a catastrophic outcome. The uncertainty in the model concerns...
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This paper discusses the environmental externalities that are commonly found in the developing world (the environmental regime) along with the policy responses, if any, commonly used to deal with these. Included are the effects of industrial emissions, air and water quality impacts of untreated...
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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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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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relies on the link between pollution, health and the survival probability, in an overlapping generations model à la Blanchard … effect on growth in the steady-state when the detrimental impact of pollution on health and lifetime is taken into account … of environmental taxes) when public expenditures in health and/or the impact of pollution on health are important …
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