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European Policies towards Palm Oil - Sorting Out some Facts

Pehnelt, Gernot; Vietze, Christoph - 2009

about and politics towards palm oil with special focus on the EU. Palm oil is a low-energy and low-fertilizer crop that … much higher than in most monocultures in the EU. Palm oil is an important driver of economic development and growth in … tropical countries and contributes to the reduction of poverty and hunger in the developing world. The EU Renewable Energy …

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Is Ecolabelling a Reliable Environmental Policy Measure?

Dosi, Cesare; Moretto, Michele - 1999

Ecolabel award schemes have become increasingly popular. Their rationale is to enable (concerned) consumers to identify "green" products. By so doing, ecolabelling should stimulate environmental innovation, and induce firms to reduce the supply of conventional (polluting) products. Our analysis...

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Environmental policy and growth when inputs are differentiated in pollution intensity

Ricci, Francesco - 2002

Environmental policy affects the distribution of market shares if intermediate goods are differentiated in pollution intensity. When innovations are environmental friendly, a tax on emissions skews demand towards new goods, which are the most productive. In this case along a balanced growth path...

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Environmental Policy à la Carte: Letting Firms Choose their Regulation

Krysiak, Frank C.; Oberauner, Iris Maria - 2008

Environmental policy often has to be devised under informational constraints, like uncertainty and asymmetric information. We consider an environmental policy that aims at reducing the welfare losses caused by asymmetric information while being sufficiently simple for implementation. In this...

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Environmental regulation and horizontal mergers in the eco-industry

Canton, Joan; David, Maia; Sinclair-Desgagné, Bernard - 2008

This paper considers the environmental policy and welfare implications of a merger between environment firms (i.e., firms managing environmental resources or supplying pollution abatement goods and services). The traditional analysis of mergers in Cournot oligopolies is extended in two ways....

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Irreversibilities and the optimal timing of environmental policy under Knightian uncertainty

Asano, Takao - 2005

In this paper, we consider a problem in environmental policy design by applying optimal stopping rules. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the optimal timings at which the government should adopt environmental policies to deal with increases in greenhouse gas concentrations and to reduce...

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The cost of environmental policy under induced technical change

Smulders, Sjak; Di Maria, Corrado - 2012

Conventional wisdom argues that environmental policy is less costly if environmental policy induces the development of cleaner technologies. In contrast to this argument, we show that the cost of environmental policy (a reduction in emissions) may be larger with induced technical change than...

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Environmental R&D

Hoel, Michael - 2010

The topic of this note is issues related to R&D expenditures leading to improved technologies for reducing environmentally harmful emissions. The focus is on he following questions: Will a market economy where environmental policies are restricted to taxes or quotas give the socially efficient...

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Key Environmental Innovations

Huber, Joseph - 2005

This paper is based on empirical research on a taxonomy of technological environmental innovations. It draws on a databank with over 500 examples of new technologies (materials, products, processes and practices) which come with benign environmental effects. The approaches applied to...

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Linking of Repeated Games. When Does It Lead to More Cooperation and Pareto Improvements?

von Mouche, Pierre; Folmer, Henk - 2007

Linking of repeated games and exchange of concessions in fields of relative strength may lead to more cooperation and to Pareto improvements relative to the situation where each game is played separately. In this paper we formalize these statements, provide some general results concerning the...

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