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There is a tendency among policy-makers and industry lobbyists toward "specific", "relative" or "output-based" quotas, i.e., freely distributed to firms proportionally to their output. With a stochastic analytical model, we demonstrate that relative quotas are dominated either by absolute quotas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325068
There is a tendency among policy-makers and industry lobbyists toward "specific", "relative" or "output-based" quotas, i.e., freely distributed to firms proportionally to their output. With a stochastic analytical model, we demonstrate that relative quotas are dominated either by absolute quotas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591303
benefits in the very long run. More specifically, we examine in an expected utility framework how the uncertainty on the growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014203185
We consider the problem of the optimal use of a good whose consumption can produce damages in the future. Scientific progress is made over time that provides information on the distribution of the intensity of damages. We show that this progress induces earlier prevention effort only if prudence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014140591
There is a tendency among policy-makers and industry lobbyists toward "specific", "relative" or "output-based" quotas, i.e., freely distributed to firms proportionally to their output. With a stochastic analytical model, we demonstrate that relative quotas are dominated either by absolute quotas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014085160
. What additional economic cost of mitigation measures will this delay imply? At the same time, the uncertainty surrounding … this uncertainty cost? Is there a hedging strategy that decision makers can adopt to cope with delayed action and uncertain … computing the optimal abatement strategy in the presence of uncertainty about a global stabilisation target (which will be …
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benefits in the very long run. More specifically, we examine in an expected utility framework how the uncertainty on the growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608349
We discuss the selection of the socially efficient discount rate for public investment projects that entail costs and benefits in the far distant future. We show that the discount rate should be a decreasing function of time horizon under some specific restrictions on the distribution of...
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Model uncertainty is inherent in the design of optimal environmental policy. We investigate the consequences in a …
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We present the results of an in-depth study in a small Southern Illinois town looking at the public's preferences with respect to reducing trihalomethanes (THMs) in their public drinking water system. THMs are an interesting environmental risk to study. First they are a low-level risk created as...
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