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Regime shifts and uncertainty in pollution control

de Zeeuw, Aart; Zemel, Amos - 2012

We develop a simple model of managing a system subject to pollution damage under risk of an abrupt and random jump in …

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Von der Schadstoffbeseitigung zur Risikoverhinderung: neue gesetzliche Regelungen für Umweltchemikalien

Weidner, Helmut - In: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte: Beilage zu "Das Parlament" (1977) 44, pp. 34-42

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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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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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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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Irreversibilities and the timing of environmental policy

Pindyck, Robert S. - 2000

The standard framework in which economists evaluate environmental policies is cost-benefit analysis, so policy debates usually focus on the expected flows of costs and benefits, or on the choice of discount rate. But this can be misleading when there is uncertainty over future outcomes, when...

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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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