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The Siting of Hazardous Waste Facilities in Federal Systems: The Political Economy of NIMBY

Fredriksson, Per - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 15 (2000) 1, pp. 75-87

This paper offers a new political economy explanation for thepervasive problem of siting hazardous waste treatment facilitiesin federal system. We first show that a decentralized systemyields the first-best waste treatment capacity level and that acentralized structure gives rise to free-riding...

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Endogenous Lobby Formation and Endogenous Environmental Protection with Unilateral Tariff Reduction

Kawahara, Shinya - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 57 (2014) 1, pp. 41-57

This paper studies how one country’s decision to liberalize trade affects the political economic structure that determines environmental policy in another country. By constructing a political economy model in which the formation of lobby groups and environmental policy are endogenously...

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L'effet du Lobbying sur les Instruments de la Politique Environnementale

Glachant, Matthieu - In: Revue d'économie politique 118 (2008) 5, pp. 663-682

tax and an Emission Trading Scheme (ETS). We show that the ETS emerging in the lobbying equilibrium always yields a higher …

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Is decentralisation always good for climate change mitigation? How federalism has complicated the greening of building policies in Austria

Steurer, Reinhard; Clar, Christoph - In: Policy Sciences 48 (2015) 1, pp. 85-107

This paper addresses two related puzzles. The first puzzle is that parts of the environmental federalism literature … puzzles by analysing to what degree federalism is responsible for Austria’s poor mitigation performance. Since the nine … explain considerable sectoral emission reductions, we conclude that Austrian federalism did not facilitate but hinder climate …

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Trade Liberalization and Environmental Taxation in Federal Systems

Fredriksson, Per G.; Matschke, Xenia - CESifo - 2014

The literature on trade liberalization and environment has not considered federal structures. This paper shows how the design of environmental policy in a federal system has implications for the effects of trade reform. Trade liberalization leads to a decline in pollution taxes regardless of...

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