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Cheap Talk, Gullibility, and Welfare in an Environmental Taxation Game

Deissenberg, Christophe; Dawid, Herbert; Sevcik, Pavel - 2004

We consider a simple dynamic model of environmental taxation that exhibits time inconsistency. There are two categories of firms, Believers, who take the tax announcements made by the Regulator to face value, and Non-Believers, who perfectly anticipate the Regulator's decisions, albeit at a...

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Voluntary environmental agreements, emission taxes and international trade: The importance of the timing of strategies

Conrad, Klaus - 1999

The purpose of the paper is to narrow the gap between the widespread use of voluntary agreements and research on the rationale of such approaches. A typical example are voluntary agreements of many industries to reduce carbon dioxide emissions because of global warming. If the industry...

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Environmental Policy, Firm Location, And Product Differentiation: The Role of Green Preferences and Inter-firm Pollution

Kuhn, Michael - 1997

-firm pollution alleviate the tendency of firms to delocate into the region with the weaker regulation; then, a deregulatory race to …

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Endogenous environmental policy when pollution is transboundary

Fünfgelt, Joachim; Schulze, Günther G. - 2011

We analyze the formation of environmental policy to regulate transboundary pollution if governments are self … be too high if environmental interests and pollution-intensity of production are very strong; under different …

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Signaling with performance and the effect of competition

Suzuki, Toru - 2010

Candidates compete to persuade a decision maker. The decision maker wishes to select a candidate who possesses a certain ability. Then, as a signaling, each candidate decides whether to perform a task whose performance statistically reflects the ability. However, since the cost of the...

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Transboundary Externalities and Property Rights: An International River Pollution Model

van der Laan, Gerard; Moes, Nigel - 2012

In this paper we study international river pollution problems. We introduce a model in which the agents (countries …) located along a river derive benefit while causing pollution, but also incur environmental costs of experiencing pollution … from all upstream agents. We find that total pollution in the model decreases when the agents decide to cooperate. The …

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Pollution Abatement in the Netherlands: A Dynamic Applied General Equilibrium Assessment

Dellink, Rob; van Ierland, Ekko - 2004

to determine substitution possibilities between pollution and abatement and the characteristics of abatement goods. The …

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A framework for environmental policy evaluation in the South African mining sector

Thiele, Rainer - 1998

This paper presents a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model for the analysis of environmental policies towards mining activities, and shows for the case of South Africa how it can be implemented numerically. The CGE model belongs to the class of static, trade-focussed models along the lines...

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The Timing of National Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions in the Presence of Other Environmental Policies

Dellink, Rob B.; Hofkes, Marjan W. - 2006

This paper shows in an empirical context that substantial cost reductions can be achieved in the implementation of Dutch national climate policy by (i) targeting the policy at the stock of greenhouse gases, thus allowing polluters flexibility in their timing of emission reductions; and (ii)...

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Grade Inflation, Social Background, and Labour Market Matching

Schwager, Robert - 2008

A model is presented where workers of differing abilities and from different social backgrounds are assigned to jobs based on grades received at school. It is examined how this matching is affected if good grades are granted to some low ability students. Such grade inflation is shown to reduce...

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