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The optimal initial allocation of pollution permits: a relative performance approach
MacKenzie, Ian A.; Hanley, Nick; Kornienko, Tatiana - 2008
The initial allocation of pollution permits is an important aspect of emissions trading schemes. We generalize the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465975
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Key recommendations for waste management policy decision-makers: a case study of future opportunities for non-municipal waste facilities in Northamptonshire, UK
Bates, M.; Phillips, P.; Mbeng, L.; Montasser, W.; … - 2008
This research identifies the barriers (e.g. planning) and drivers for the development of new non-municipal wastes management facilities in Northamptonshire, an English County in the East Midlands of England. The aim of the research was to give guidance to policy makers and planners at all levels...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009430280
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MEASURING AND DECOMPOSING ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL EFFICIENCY AND PRODUCTIVITY CHANGE IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
Viet-Ngu Hoang - 2011
sustained plant and animal productivity growth. As a result there exists an urgent need to make agriculture more sustainable not … measuring efficiency levels and productivity changes mainly deal with the economic considerations. Several models have proposed … environmental efficiency and productivity change measures. However, they do not satisfy the first and second laws of thermodynamics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448404
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Incorporating uncertainty into electric utility projections and decisions
Hanson, D.A. - 2008
This paper focuses on how electric utility companies can respond in their decision making to uncertain variables. Here we take a mean- variance type of approach. The mean'' value is an expected cost, on a discounted value basis. We assume that management has risk preferences incorporating a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009436272
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476197
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GROWTH THEORY AND ACCOUNTING FOR GROWTH OF THE TAIWANESE ECONOMY
Lin, Pei-Chien; Roe, Terry L. - 1999
contribution of total factor productivity (TFP) to growth in GDP averaged about 32 percent over the period, and this contribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444529
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Innovation, Productivity Growth, and the Survival of the U.S. Copper Industry
Tilton, John E.; Landsberg, Hans H. - 1997
next best deposits. This tendency to exploit poorer quality ores tends to push productivity down and the prices of mineral … wide range of cost-reducing innovations. These efforts, in turn, helped double labor productivity in copper mining during … their labor productivity and standard of living. In particular, it highlights the stimulating influence of global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445507
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Micro Gains From Micro Reform
Quiggin, John - 1998
Large estimates of the benefits of microeconomic reform have been put forward in official studies. By contrast, Quiggin (1997) concludes that benefits of microeconomic reforms have been modest. A key area of disagreement relates to the claim that increased competition leads to increases in...
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An error correction model of induced innovation in UK agriculture
Piesse J.; Schimmelpfennig D.; Thirtle C. - 2011
Cointegration techniques are applied to a model of induced innovation based on the two-stage Constant Elasticity of Substitution (CES) production function. This approach results in direct tests of the inducement hypothesis, which are applied to agricultural data for the United Kingdom from 1953...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009480501
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Essays on the contribution of public infrastructure to private production and its political economy
Stephan, Andreas - 2001
between infrastructure and private productivity. The second subject is the determinants of regional infrastructure investment … infrastructure to private production; the essays three to five study besides the productivity effects also the determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467016