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Porter's Hypothesis on Environmental Policy in an Oligopoly Model with Cost Asymmetry Caused by Innovation / Porter's Hypothese zur Umweltpolitik in einem Oligopol mit asymmetrisch...
Feess, Eberhard; Taistra, Gregor - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 220 (2000) 1, pp. 18-31
Umweltpolitik die internationale Konkurrenzfähigkeit der betroffenen Firmen erhöhen kann, in einem Zwei-Perioden-Modell mit Cournot …
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Sleeping Process Patents and Environmental Innovation / Umweltpolitik und schlafende Patente
Hübner, Marion - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 222 (2002) 6, pp. 706-718
Summary Using a duopoly model of a patent race, it is shown that a stricter environmental policy might increase the probability of a sleeping patent instead of encouraging environmental technological progress. Two scenarios are discussed. The first concerns the regulation of a firm that competes...
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The Pollution Haven Paradox: Can an Effluent Tax Improve both Profits and Welfare?
Driskill, Robert; Horowitz, Andrew W. - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 7 (2007) 1
Abstract Stringent environmental taxes in high-income countries are assumed to drive dirty industries to low-income countries, but the empirical evidence for ``pollution havens" is surprisingly weak. We demonstrate that a government trying to prevent flight by a ``dirty" durable good monopolist...
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Economic Geography and the Effect of Environmental Pollution on Agglomeration
Lange, Andreas; Quaas, Martin F - In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 7 (2007) 1
Abstract We study how local environmental pollution affects spatial patterns of economic activities when workers can migrate. Based on a New Economic Geography model, we analytically characterize the stability conditions for three different types of equilibria: symmetric spreading, partial and...
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Designing Smarter Regulation with Improved Benefit-Cost Analysis
Hahn, Robert - In: Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis 1 (2010) 1
markets, which balances benefits and a narrow definition of costs. I then introduce a richer normative theory that considers … costs associated with rent seeking, design and implementation, and raising revenues. The richer theory suggests that the … theory provides guidance on the setting of socially optimal taxes and subsidies. I then explore how the theory needs to be …
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An Empirical Assessment of the EU Agricultural Policy Based on Firm Level Data
Murillo, Carmen; San Juan, Carlos; Sperlich, Stefan - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 227 (2007) 3, pp. 273-294
Summary The study focuses on testing the hypothesis that the subsidy system of the Common Agricultural Reform in 1992 (CAP’92) drove to changes in farm efficiency towards the thereby claimed objectives. With sequential applications of semiparametric methods we succeed to identify the impact of...
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Moon phase effect on investor psychology and stock trading performance
Brahmana, Rayenda; Hooy, Chee-Wooi; Ahmad, Zamri - In: International Journal of Social Economics 41 (2014) 3, pp. 182-200
Purpose – This article aims to examine how investor moods and aggressiveness differ in their state and influence investor stock market performance associated with the moon phase. The mechanisms and impact of full moon gravity on investor stock trading performance are explored through an...
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The effect of weather on the European stock market
Sariannidis, Nikolaos; Giannarakis, Grigoris; … - In: International Journal of Social Economics 43 (2016) 9, pp. 943-958
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to ascertain whether weather variables can explain the stock return reaction on the Dow Jones Sustainability Europe Index by employing a number of macroeconomic indicators as control variables. Design/methodology/approach The authors incorporate the...
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Assessing the distributional impact of community forest income
Olushola Arowolo, Aisha; Agbonlahor, Mure; Okuneye, Peter; … - In: International Journal of Social Economics 41 (2014) 11, pp. 1101-1109
Purpose – Emerging evidence revealed a high rate of dependence of marginal people on forest resources in developing countries for both subsistence use and cash income. The purpose of this paper is to examine the rural livelihoods welfare dimensions of community forest income in south-western...
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Does activism matter? The case of environmental policy in the US states
Basu, Suchandra; Devaraj, Nirupama - In: International Journal of Social Economics 41 (2014) 10, pp. 923-943
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of activism in determining the identity of the “green” median voter and the influence of the green voter on environmental regulatory stringency in the US states. Design/methodology/approach – Regulatory stringency is measured...
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