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To mitigate pollution this note advocates a two-component system. The polluter pays for the damage he causes and for the opportunity to do so. The main motivation is to achieve Pareto e¢ ciency while avoiding problems caused by asymmetric information and strategic moves. The proposed regime...
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negative production externalities. In our models, under the tax regime, firms that take no treatment action to mitigate the … damage caused by their negative externalities are punished, whereas under the subsidy regime, firms are rewarded for … as policy objectives: total output, total damage from negative externalities, and social welfare. We find reasonable …
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, traditional approaches to innovation assessment focus on financial outcomes and fail to capture the double externalities of …
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The publication “Market Approach to The Environment Protection” is a naughty contribution to searching acceptable economic and non-economic approach to environmental policies and human behavior towards the nature. Based on “Free Market Environmentalism” thesis the authors fail in correct...
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theory. Environmental issues must go through the filter of economic analysis, and policies have to be evaluated based on the …
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With the determination of principal parameters of producing and pollution abatement technologies, this paper quantifies abatement and external costs at the social optimum and analyses the dynamic relationship between technological development and the above-mentioned costs. With the partial...
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In this paper, I discuss, from a policy perspective, the relation between environmental institutions and transaction costs. I stress the importance of environmental institutions in providing decisive information, i.e. information that induces changes in behaviour, and thereby facilitates...
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In this paper, I discuss, from a policy perspective, the relation between environmental institutions and transaction costs. I stress the importance of environmental institutions in providing decisive information, i.e. information that induces changes in behaviour, and thereby facilitates...
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In general, the use of incentive payments to landholders in environmental programs is poorly thought through. This article discusses situations where environmental incentive payments are more likely to be a cost-effective response by environmental funders. It is proposed that incentives can be...
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