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Competitiveness and environmental policies for agriculture: testing the Porter hypothesis

Managi, Shunsuke - In: International Journal of Agricultural Resources, … 3 (2004) 3/4, pp. 310-324

Porter hypothesis suggests tougher environmental regulations could spur technological growth, leading to an increase in productivity of market outputs, simultaneously providing greater environmental protection. This study tests the Porter hypothesis in US agriculture using state level data from...

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Taxes and Tradable Permits As Instruments for Controlling Pollution; Theory and Practice

Norregaard, John; Reppelin-Hill, Valérie - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

This paper examines the relative merits of two dominant economic instruments for reducing pollution—”green” taxes and … other. In practice, however, most countries have relied more on taxes than on permits to control pollution. The analysis …

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Alternative Forms of Mineral Taxation, Market Failure and the Environment

Muzondo, Timothy R. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1992

This paper examines the environmental effects of mineral taxes in a framework that recognizes the importance of rates and cumulative externalities and proposes an appropriate corrective tax. It concludes that mineral resources taxation should combine neutral taxes with a dynamic Pigovian type...

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Die EG muß auch eine Umweltschutzgemeinschaft werden

Sprenger, Rolf-Ulrich - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 43 (1990) 05/06, pp. 31-51

Umweltschutz ist dabei entscheidend, wie hoch das Schutzniveau dieser Grundanforderungen liegt (z.B. bei Kfz-Abgasgrenzwerten) und …

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Are Environmental Taxes Affected by Legislatures' Ideological Positions?

Miller, Sebastian; Vela, Mauricio A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

Environmental taxes have been discussed as one of the main mechanisms to deal with environmental problems. Nonetheless, instruments of this type have rarely been implemented, and the adoption of new or higher environmental taxes has faced resistance in some countries. The purpose of this work is...

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Time inconsistency in environmental policy : Tax earmarking as a commitment solution

Marsiliani, L.; Renstrom, T.I. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1999

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Efficiency Costs of Meeting Industry-Distributional Constraints under Environmental Permits and Taxes

Bovenberg, A.L.Bovenberg; Goulder, L.H.; Gurney, D.J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

Many pollution-related industries wield strong political influence and can e.ectively veto policy initiatives that … permits or by exempting some inframarginal emissions from a pollution tax.However, such policies compel the government to … this constraint diminishes relative to the other e.ciency costs of pollution-control.We also calculate the compensation …

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Green Taxes and Climate Change: Theory and Reality

Milne, Janet E. - In: CESifo DICE Report 5 (2007) 4, pp. 8-12

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Environmental policy: emerging practice and principles.

Doeleman, Jacobus A - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1992

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Cost v. benefit: clearing the air?

Clement, Douglas - In: The Region (2001) Dec, pp. 18-21

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