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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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Punishment : and beyond

Frey, Bruno S. - 2009

This paper argues that the Economics of Crime concentrates too much on punishment as a policy to fight crime, which is … unwise for several reasons. There are important instances in which punishment simply cannot reduce crime. Several feasible … alternatives to punishment exist, such as offering positive incentives or handing out awards for law abiding behavior. These …

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Black Sheep and Walls of Silence

Roider, Andreas; Muehlheusser, Gerd - 2004

In this paper we analyze the frequently observed phenomenon that (i) some members of a team ("black sheep") exhibit behavior disliked by other (honest) team members, who (ii) nevertheless refrain from reporting such misbehavior to the authorities (they set up a "wall of silence"). Much cited...

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Black Sheep and Walls of Silence

Mühlheußer, Gerd; Roider, Andreas - 2005

In this paper we analyze the frequently observed phenomenon that (i) some members of a team (“black sheep”) exhibit behavior disliked by other (honest) team members, who (ii) nevertheless refrain from reporting such misbehavior to the authorities (they set up a “wall of silence”). Much...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263140

Sicherheit, Strafe und positive Alternativen

Frey, Bruno S.; Neckermann, Susanne - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 78 (2009) 4, pp. 61-72

several reasons. On the one hand, there are important instances in which punishment is unable to reduce crime or may even …

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Tying governments' hands: Why harmonisation of environmental policies may be desirable

Johal, Surjinder; Ulph, Alistair M. - 1998

We consider environmental policy in a federal system where states face purely domestic environmental problems. It is normally argued that in this context, environmental policy is best set at the state level, perhaps because of better local information. To provide a rationale for federal...

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Environmental regulation under asymmetric information with type-dependent outside option

Vislie, Jon - 2000

We consider how a benevolent regulator should regulate a polluting export industry when the industry, having private information about its abatement efficiency, has an option to move its operations abroad, with a type-dependent outside option rent. The paper focuses on the case where outside...

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Environmental regulation, asymmetric information and foreign ownership

Vislie, Jon - 2001

Regulating an export firm (or a homogeneous industry) with private information about emission technology is analysed, when the firm, owned partly by foreigners, has an option to bypass domestic regulation through costly relocation. If the firm chooses to relocate, it will set up a new plant in a...

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Environmental dumping, transboundary pollution and asymmetric information: Some insights for the environmental regulation of the European electricity market

Bigano, Andrea - 1999

In this paper we extend a model by A. Ulph (1997) on the relationship between free trade agreements, environmental regulation and trade under imperfect competition. Ulph's model focused on the effectiveness of harmonisation policies against ecological dumping. It turned out that harmonised...

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The Influence of Environmental Policy on Innovative Behaviour: An Econometric Study

Hemmelskamp, Jens - 1999

The paper examines the determinants that influence the environmental innovation behaviour of companies in Germany in a multivariate context by using data from the Mannheimer Innovations Panel 1993, which was part of the Community Innovation Survey. The objective is to analyse the general...

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