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Differences in preferences towards the environment: The impact of a gender, age and parental effect
Torgler, Benno; García Valiñas, María A.; Macintyre, … - 2008
The paper investigates empirically the differences in preferences towards protection of the environment. Using seven different dependent variables to focus on the impact of age, gender and children we use a large micro data set covering data from 33 Western and Eastern European countries. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270958
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Environmental and Pro-Social Norms: Evidence from 30 Countries
Torgler, Benno; Frey, Bruno S.; Wilson, Clevo - 2007
The paper investigates the relationship between pro-social norms and its implications for improved environmental outcomes, an area which has been neglected in the environmental economics literature. We provide empirical evidence, demonstrating a strong link between perceived environmental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312571
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Justifiability of littering: An empirical investigation
Torgler, Benno; García-Valiñas, María A.; Macintyre, … - 2008
The paper investigates the relationship between environmental participation and littering. Previous empirical work in the area of littering is scarce as is evidence regarding the determinants of littering behavior. We address these deficiencies, demonstrating a strong empirical link between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279502
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Environmental participation and environmental motivation
Torgler, Benno; García Valiñas, María A.; Macintyre, … - 2008
We explore whether environmental motivation affects environmental behavior by focusing on volunteering. The paper first … with a large micro data set covering 32 countries from both Western and Eastern Europe using several different proxies to … measure environmental motivation. Our results indicate that environmental motivation has a strong impact on individuals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279592
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Can green lobbies replace a world environmental organisation?
Conconi, Paola - 2000
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608620
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Why Finance Ministers Favor Carbon Taxes, Even if They Do not Take Climate Change into Account
Franks, Max; Edenhofer, Ottmar; Lessmann, Kai - 2015
Fiscal considerations may shift governmental priorities away from environmental concerns: Finance ministers face strong demand for public expenditures such as infrastructure investments but they are constrained by international tax competition. We develop a multi-region model of tax competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307268
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Costs of air quality regulation
Becker, Randy A.; Henderson, John Vernon - 1999
operating costs. As an alternative way to assess costs, we also employ plant-level data from the Pollution Abatement Costs and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608560
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An industry-adjusted index of state environmental compliance costs
Levinson, Arik - 1999
This paper describes a new, industry-adjusted index of state environmental compliance costs from 1977 to 1994. The index has two principal advantages: it controls for states' industrial compositions, and it can be calculated for 17 years, thus facilitating comparisons both among states and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608561
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The effect of spillovers and congestion on the segregative properties of endogenous jurisdiction structure formation
Oddou, Rémy - 2011
This paper analyzes the effect of spillovers and congestion of local public goods on the segregative properties of endogenous formation of jurisdiction. Households living in the same place form a jurisdiction and produce a local public good, that creates positive spillovers in other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279515
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“Almost” Subsidy-free Spatial Pricing in a Multi-dimensional Setting
Savvateev, Alexei; Drèze, Jacques; Le Breton, Michel; … - 2007
Consider a population of citizens uniformly spread over the entire plane, that faces a problem of locating public facilities to be used by its members. The cost of every facility is financed by its users, who also face an idiosyncratic private access cost to the facility. We assume that the...
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