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Research and development towards green technologies under technical and policy uncertainty
Valeria Jana Schwanitz - 2010
Green technological progress bears a strong potential to alleviate climate change, but its utilization is contingent on factors which are by nature impossible to anticipate or predict. Developing stochastic optimisation models, we explore how the decision to invest in research and development...
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Der Einfluss von Steuern auf Investitions- und Arbeitsangebotsentscheidungen - Experimentelle Analysen zur Wahrnehmung der Steuerbelastung
Fochmann, Martin - 2011
investment behavior which is consistent with theory. However, an income tax with a limited or unlimited loss offset provision …
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The Organization of Education
Eisenkopf, Gerald - 2007
.Chapter four discusses the impact of ability grouping in secondary educationon student incentives. Education provides a signal on … unobservable abilityfor employers and improves productivity after education. Selection setsbetter incentives in primary education … (Gesamtschulen) hat die erworbeneQualifikation aber eine höhere Signalwirkung. Deswegen haben die Schülerauch einen höheren Anreiz …
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Ökonomische Analyse des Europäischen Emissionshandels als Teil globaler Klimapolitik
Wiesweg, Maik - 2011
Ein Handel mit verbrieften Verschmutzungsrechten gilt als treffsicher, als kosteneffizient und darüber hinaus als geeignet, umwelttechnischen Fortschritt zu induzieren. Das Europäische Emissionshandelssystem weist einige Besonderheiten auf, welche zu Wirkungsbrüchen führen können, die...
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Strategic Choice of International Emissions Trading Scheme in an Open Economy with Perfect Competition
Boom, Jan Tjeerd - 2003
Emissions trading can be organized in several ways. In particular, private emissions trading can be organized as permit trading, or as credit trading. The schemes have a different impact on output with credit trading leading to a higher output level than permit trading. This paper analyzes what...
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Strategic Choice of Domestic Environmental Policy Instrument and International Emissions Trading Scheme in an Open Economy with Imperfect Competition
Boom, Jan Tjeerd - 2003
This paper presents a model of imperfect international competition. Within this framework, the optimal choice of national environmental policy instrument and international emissions trading scheme is discussed. The choice of national instrument is restricted to absolute and relative standards,...
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Transaction costs of firms in the EU ETS
Jaraite, Jurate; Convery, Frank J.; Di Maria, Corrado - 2009
This paper is a first attempt to empirically measure transaction costs – a composite of administrativecosts and trading costs – of firms in the European Union's CO2 Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS)during its trial phase (2005-2007). This analysis provides some evidence that transaction...
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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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Dynamic incentives of environmental policy instruments
Unold, Wolfram - 2000
environmental abatement technology. Therefore the dynamic incentives of taxes, subsidies, permits and emission standards are …The thesis analyses the dynamic incentives of environmental policy instruments to innovate and invest in new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476197
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Under What Conditions are Decentralized Solutions to Collective Action Problems Likely?
Maier-Rigaud, Frank - 2000
with economic incentives as generated by the market system and requires changes in the market institutions to implement … problem is consistent with the underlying economic order (market system), if economic incentives to solve the problem exist … collective action are not pecuniary, this implies that the activity is not consistent with market incentives and therefore …
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