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Policy-Induced Technology Adoption: Evidence from the U.S. Lead Phasedown

Kerr, Suzi; Newell, Richard G. - 2001

The theory of environmental regulation suggests that economic instruments, such as taxes and tradable permits, create more effective technology adoption incentives than conventional regulatory standards. We explore this issue for an important industry undergoing technological responses to a...

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Assessing design options for a Nutrient Trading System using an integrated model

Lock, Kelly; Kerr, Suzi; Cox, Tim; Rutherford, Kit - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2008

model, N-TRADER to simulate the effect of different aspects of nutrient trading policy for the Lake Rotorua catchment. This …

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Fishing Quota Markets

Newell, Richard G.; Sanchirico, James N.; Kerr, Suzi - 2002

Fisheries worldwide continue to suffer from the negative consequences of open access. In 1986, New Zealand responded by establishing an individual transferable quota (ITQ) system that by 1998 included 33 species and more than 150 markets for fishing quotas. We assess these markets in terms of...

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Fishing Quota Markets

Kerr, Suzi; Sanchirico, James; Newell, Richard - 2002

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Tropical Forest Protection, Uncertainty, and the Environmental Integrity of Carbon Mitigation Policies

Kerr, Suzi; Hendy, Joanna; Liu, Shuguang; Pfaff, … - EconWPA - 2004

Tropical forests are estimated to release approximately 1.7 PgC per year as a result of deforestation. Avoiding tropical deforestation could potentially play a significant role in carbon mitigation over the next 50 years if not longer. Many policymakers and negotiators are skeptical of our...

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Policy to Encourage Carbon Sequestration in Plantation Forests

Kerr, Suzi; Brunton, Emma; Chapman, Ralph - EconWPA - 2005

climate change obligations in the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol (2008–2012). However, without active policy … examining policy measures for encouraging carbon sequestration in plantation forests in New Zealand. Part I focuses on providing … policy design. It discusses how including considerations of the value of carbon sequestration and storage changes optimal …

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Policy to Encourage Carbon Sequestration in Plantation Forests

Kerr, Suzi; Brunton, Emma; Chapman, Ralph - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2004

climate change obligations in the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol (2008-2012). However, without active policy … examining policy measures for encouraging carbon sequestration in plantation forests in New Zealand. Part I focuses on providing … policy design. It discusses how including considerations of the value of carbon sequestration and storage changes optimal …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413327

Tropical Forest Protection, Uncertainty, and the Environmental Integrity of Carbon Mitigation Policies

Kerr, Suzi; Hendy, Joanna; Liu, Shuguang; Pfaff, … - Motu: Economic & Public Policy Research - 2004

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Optimizing Voluntary Deforestation Policy in the Face of Adverse Selection and Costly Transfers

Benthem, Arthur A. van; Kerr, Suzi - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2010

As part of international climate change policy, voluntary opt-in programs to reduce emissions in unregulated sectors or … costless transfers would choose such a subsidy to maximize efficiency. However, any actual policy needs to be individually … efficiency. Third, if the industrialized countries can be persuaded to be more generous, the feasible policy set can come close …

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Modelling Land Use in Rural New Zealand

Olssen, Alex; Kerr, Suzi - New Zealand Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2011

governance structures within New Zealand. Different types of policy instruments are available to Regional Councils while carrying … approaches to policy. This increased levels of trust between communities and the Regional Councils, and can be seen as building … blocks in the formation of social capital. Where rules were not achieving particular policy objectives, interesting new …

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