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economic theory has restricted to either of them when submitting conventional policy instruments to a comparative analysis. The …
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, hitherto environmental economic theory has restricted itself to either of them when submitting conventional policy instruments …
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This paper analyzes stochastic productive pollution within a model of endogenous growth. The extent to which the agents … perceive their individual influence on aggregate pollution is parameterized. Recursive preferences allow for the separation … stochastic pollution tax, which is uncorrelated with the technological uncertainty of pollution, is compared with a pure …
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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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This paper studies Krugman's (1991) core-periphery model and extends it to include environmental pollution. We present … local environmental pollution, a third and more realistic type of equilibrium may occur in which most of the manufacturing …
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the relationships between population development, economic dynamics and environmental pollution are complex due to various … long-run steady state is optimal that is characterized by a stable pollution stock, and by population and economic growth …
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Policy makers and analysts are often faced with situations where it is unclear whether market-based instruments hold real promise of reducing costs, relative to conventional uniform standards. We develop analytic expressions that can be employed with modest amounts of information to estimate the...
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In the past 15 years, incentive-based environmental policy instruments, such as pollution taxes and tradeable pollution … proposes a positive theory of environmental instrument choice that can be used to explain this trend. We imagine a democratic … society that seeks to lower the level of pollution from industrial production to a pre-specified target. The target can be …
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model of a monocentric city, in which two types ofexternalities occur. On the one hand, pollution inthe industrial centre …
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