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Perseverance of Perverse Subsidies and their Impact on Trade and the Environment

van Beers, Cees; van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. - 2000

Theoretical and empirical aspects of policy failures due to subsidies are discussed in the context of international trade. A general classification of subsidies that cause environmental externalities is presented. The economic and environmental impacts of producer subsidies on international...

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Environmental Responsibility and Policy in a Two Country Dynamic Input-Output Model

Hoekstra, Rutger; Janssen, Marco A. - 2002

Increased spatial dependency of economic activities, as well as spatial differentiation of production and consumption, has implication for environmental policy. One of the issues that has gained importance is the responsibility for the emissions from products that cross national boundaries...

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Environmental Regulation and Competitiveness

Mulatu, Abay; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Withagen, Cees A.A.M. - 2001

The potential relationship between domestic environmental regulation and internationalcompetitiveness has evoked various speculations. The common neoclassical train of thought is thatstrict environmental regulation is detrimental to the competitiveness of industry, and that itinduces phenomena...

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Environmental Regulation and International Trade

Mulatu, Abay; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Withagen, Cees A. - 2004

We empirically investigate the responsiveness of international trade to the stringency of environmental regulation. Stringent environmental regulation may impair the export competitiveness of ‘dirty’ domestic industries, and as a result, ‘pollution havens’ emerge in countries where...

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Competing Recombinant Technologies for Environmental Innovation

Zeppini-Rossi, Paolo - 2014

This article presents a model of sequential decisions about investments in environmentally dirty and clean technologies, which extends the path-dependence framework of Arthur (1989). This allows us to evaluate if and how an economy locked into a dirty technology can be unlocked and move towards...

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Price and Income Elasticities of Residential Water Demand: Why Empirical Estimates differ

Dalhuisen, Jasper M.; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; de Groot, … - 2001

This paper presents a meta-analysis of variations in price and income elasticities of residential water demand … policy-making. It is also crucial for effective water demand management. We focus on theapplication of statistical methods to … empirical estimates of the price and income elasticity ofresidential water demand vary to such considerable extents. The set of …

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Latent Volatility Granger Causality and Spillovers in Renewable Energy and Crude Oil ETFs

Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael; Wang, Yu-Ann - 2018

Funds (ETFs) and crude oil ETF (USO), namely solar (TAN), wind (FAN), water (PIO), and nuclear (NLR). Data on the renewable …

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The Impact of Environmental Policy on Foreign Trade: Tobey revisited with a Bilateral Flow Model

van Beers, Cees; van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. - 2000

We consider the microfoundations controversy from the perspective of economic evolution. Although the analogy between biology and economics has been noted before, it has rarely focused on clarifying the micro–macro distinction in economic theory and modelling. The micro–macro debate is more...

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Models of Individual Behavior and Implications for Environmental Policy

van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M.; Ferrer-I-Carbonell, Ada; … - 1998

Most insights of environmental economics are in line with the standard neoclassicaleconomic model of rational behaviour, formulated in terms of maximization of utility ingeneral, or profits in particular. The standard theory of environmental policy is a casein point. However, the maximization...

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Optimal Growth, Coordination and Sustainability in the Spatial Economy

van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M.; Nijkamp, Peter - 1997

Until recently, the interaction between environmental quality, economic activity and growth is predominantly considered in an a-spatial context. Traditional neoclassical growth theory following Solow/Swan has mainly addressed questions about environmental and resource limits to growth. Recently,...

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