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Use of Aggregate Emission Reduction Cost Functions in Designing Optimal Regional SO2 Abatement Strategies

Mariam, Yohannes; Barre, Mike - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997

The 1990 Canadian long-range transport of air pollutants and acid deposition report divided North America into 40 sources of emission and 15 sensitive receptor sites. For the purpose of national policy making and international negotiation, the use of these large sources and few receptors may...

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Regulation, innovation, and the introduction of new telecommunications services

Prieger, James E. - 2000

I examine the effects of FCC regulation on the innovation and introduction of advanced telecommunications services in … the U.S. An interim of lighter regulation provides an experiment to test the regulatory regime''s impact on innovation …. The econometric model comprises an arrival process (for service innovation) followed by a duration process (for regulatory …

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Product Liability Litigation and Innovation : Evidence from Medical Devices

Galasso, Alberto; Luo, Hong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine the relationship between product liability litigation and innovation by systematically combining data on …

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Energy and Climate Policy: USA Continues to Trail behind, Despite Positive Change

Schill, Wolf-Peter; Diekmann, Jochen; Kemfert, Claudia - In: Weekly Report 6 (2010) 5, pp. 27-35

In the course of current climate negotiations, the world is watching the United States in particular. Together with China, the U.S. is by far the largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Real progress in protecting the global climate requires substantial action on America's part. The U.S. has the...

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Energie- und Klimaschutzpolitik: USA holen langsam auf

Schill, Wolf-Peter; Diekmann, Jochen; Kemfert, Claudia - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 46, pp. 796-805

Vor dem kommenden UN-Klimagipfel in Kopenhagen blickt die Welt vor allem auf die USA. Sie sind neben China mit Abstand der größte Emittent von Treibhausgasen. Spürbare Fortschritte beim globalen Klimaschutz setzen einen erheblichen Beitrag der Amerikaner voraus. Spielraum für eine deutliche...

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Copenhagen and beyond: reflections on China's stance and responses

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2010

China had been singled out by Western politicians and media for dragging its feet on international climate negotiations at Copenhagen, the accusations previously always targeted on the U.S. To put such a criticism into perspective, this paper provides some reflections on China's stance and...

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In what format and under what timeframe would China take on climate commitments? A roadmap to 2050

Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2010

In what format and under what timeframe China would take on climate commitments is of significant relevance to China because it is facing great pressure both inside and outside international climate negotiations to exhibit greater ambition and is being confronted with the threats of trade...

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Does Environmental Protection Hurt Low-Income Families?

Fullerton, Don - In: CESifo Forum 10 (2009) 1, pp. 45-49

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Household heterogeneity, aggregation, and the distributional impacts of environmental taxes

Rausch, Sebastian; Schwarz, Giacomo - 2016

This paper examines how the general equilibrium incidence of an environmental tax depends on the effect of different incomes and preferences of heterogeneous households on aggregate outcomes. We develop a Harberger-type model with general forms of preferences and substitution between capital,...

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Social Equity Concerns and Differentiated Environmental Taxes

Abrell, Jan; Rausch, Sebastian; Schwarz, Giacomo A. - 2016

This paper examines pollution tax differentiation across industries in light of social equity concerns using theoretical and numerical general equilibrium analyses in an optimal tax framework. We characterize the drivers for non-uniform optimal taxes emanating from the interaction of household...

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