In October 2013, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand imposed loan-to-value (LTV) restrictions on housing loans to slow the unsustainable rise in house prices. In this study Bayesian Structural Time Series (BSTS) introduced by Scott and Varian (2014) is used to investigate the causal impact of LTV on...

Introduction -- Developing the appropriate modeling framework for quantitative policy analysis of the food-energy-water nexus -- Leveling the field for biofuels: comparing the economic and environmental impacts of biofuel and other export crops in Malawi -- Evaluating irrigation investments in...

This paper analyses two aspects of environmental regulations triggered by ecoinnovations. First, whether there are long term effects of regulation on innovation. Second, whether the impact of different types of regulation differ by type of the environmental benefit of the innovations. To answer...