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This paper presents a brief literature review concerning the costs and benefits of electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles, highlighting their advantages in terms of greenhouse gas emissions reductions. Even though electric and electro-hybrid vehicles must still overcome many cultural and...
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In this paper, we explore the economic impact of promotion and realization of an electric vehicle society (EVS) in Toyohashi City in Japan. More concretely, this paper emphasizes a computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling approach to evaluate the following issues: economic impacts of...
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This paper examines the application of quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics. We begin with two observations: i) standard quasi-experimental methods, first applied in other microeconomic fields, typically assume unit-level treatments that do not spill over across units; (ii)...
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Because of the importance of the energy sector's development for the performance and stability of the economy, its analysis has become an intriguing branch of the economic sciences. For this study it should be tested the characteristics of each of the industries that comprise it, as well as make...
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Linkage of cap-and-trade systems is typically advocated by economists on a general analogy with the beneficial linking of free-trade areas and on the specific grounds that linkage will ensure cost effectiveness among the linked jurisdictions. An appropriate and widely accepted specification for...
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Linkage of cap-and-trade systems is typically advocated by economists on a general analogy with the beneficial linking of free-trade areas and on the specific grounds that linkage will ensure cost effectiveness among the linked jurisdictions. An appropriate and widely accepted specification for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931975
The ever-growing population of India, along with the increasing competition for water for productive uses in different …
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pollutants on health. To circumvent this, we use emissions from Kīlauea volcano, uncorrelated with other pollution sources, to … young. No strong effects for SO2 pollution or cardiovascular outcomes are found. Since 2008, the volcano has increased …
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only temporary, these improvements could have longer-lasting effects on policy by making chronic air pollution more salient … econometric models to estimate the effect of Bogotás lockdown on fine particulate pollution, epidemiological models to simulate … the effect of reductions in that pollution on long-term and short-term mortality, and benefit transfer methods to estimate …
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This note contributes to the literature on the air pollution consequences determined by hosting mega-events. An … econometric analysis is provided to document the increase in air pollution observed in Naples (Italy) during the G20 Ministerial …
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