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Human Capital and Optimal Policy under Risk and Credit Constraints
Yang, Hongyan - 2010
Die vorliegende Dissertation besteht aus fünf unabhängigen Forschungspapieren über optimale Steuer- und Bildungspolitik, welche ich während meines Promotionsstudiums an der Universität Konstanz erstellt habe. Private Versicherungen gegen Einkommensrisiko können aufgrund von moral hazard...
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The problem of intergenerational equity in the field of national health insurance, analysed from the perspective of public choice theory
Dominick, Florian - 2008
Krankenversicherung (GKV) daher die Forschungsfrage, ob in einer marktwirtschaftlichen Ordnung Generationengerechtigkeit umgesetzt wird … bzw. wer von ihrer Umsetzung einen Nutzen hat.Zun?chst wird auf Grundlage der Theorie der Neuen Politischen ?konomik … evaluated from the point of view of public choice theory to see if, and if yes, to what extent, it is intergenerationally …
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Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture in the EU: A spatial assessment of sources and abatement costs
de Cara, Stephane; Houze, Martin; Jayet, Pierre-Alain - 2004
Agriculture contributes significantly to the emissions of greenhouse gases in the EU. By using a farm-type, linear-programming based model of the European agricultural supply, we first assess the initial levels of methane and nitrous oxide emissions at the regional level in the EU. For a range...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445982
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Service Contract : EC - DG Environment − CNRS-IEPE: Options for the Operationalisation of the Kyoto Mechanisms - Economic Analysis based on Partial Equilibrium Models
Criqui, Patrick; Kitous, Alban - Institut d'Économie et de Politique de l'Énergie - 2001
This report presents two series of studies performed before COP-6 and COP-6bis, in order to provide DG Environment with economic analysis of the issues at stake in international climate negotiations. These analysis used the background information provided by the large scale world energy partial...
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The costs of stopping deforestation in PNG and Indonesia
Hunt, Colin - 2010
Even though deforestation in tropical developing countries releases large quantities of greenhouse gases, the Kyoto Protocol does not include mechanisms for forest conservation. Nevertheless, deforestation and forest degradation has now taken centre-stage as the developed countries, having...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448621
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Zur dynamischen Anreizwirkung umweltpolitischer Instrumente
Unold, Wolfram - 2000
Im Mittelpunkt der vorgestellten Arbeit steht die dynamische Anreizwirkung umweltpolitischer Instrumente. Die voliegende Arbeit erstellt einen differenzierten Vergleich umweltpolitischer Instrumente. Hierzu wird die Anreizwirkung von Steuern, Subventionen, Zertifikaten und einheitlichen...
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Optimal Coverage of Installations in a Carbon Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)
Sanderson, Todd; Ancev, Tihomir; Betz, Regina - 2008
Trading schemes for emission allowances have become a panacea for nations aspiring toreduce their aggregate emissions of greenhouse gases from industry in a cost-effectivemanner. The contention of this paper is that an emissions trading scheme (ETS) shouldnot be based on blanket coverage of...
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Socio-Technical Transition as a Co-Evolutionary Process: Innovation and the Role of Niche Markets in the Transition to Motor Vehicles
Birky, Alicia Kim - 2008
Significant reductions in greenhouse emissions from personal transportation will require a transition to an alternative technology regime based on renewable energy sources. Two bodies of research, the quasi-evolutionary (QE) model and the multi-level perspective (MLP) assert that processes...
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Land-use change and carbon sinks: Econometric estimation of the carbon sequestration supply function.
Lubowski, Ruben N.; Plantinga, Andrew J.; Stavins, Robert N. - 2006
If the United States chooses to implement a greenhouse gas reduction program, it would be necessary to decide whether to include carbon sequestration policies - - -such as those that promote forestation and discourage deforestation - - -as part of the domestic portfolio of compliance activities....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429477
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Common Assets: Asserting Rights to Our Shared Inheritance
Watt, Helen Payne - 2000
"Many of what we consider to be valuable natural assets existed for millennia without our ever being aware of their usefulness or value. For example, the capacity of the atmosphere to absorb pollution has only become useful to us in recent decades as the limits of that environmental service have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468379