In the last few decades, environmental and resource issues such as the extinction of species, toxic spills, depletion of natural resources, climate change, air and water pollution etc., as well as their relationship to the economy have drawn public's attention. While environmental economics...

This paper presents a simple two-period overlapping generation's model with uncertain lifetimes that contains environmental and health issues. It investigates an intergenerational conflict between old and young generations as regards two defensive expenditures, offsetting the influence of a...

Production often causes pollution as a by-product. Once pollution problems become too severe, regulation is introduced by political authorities which forces the economy to make a transition to cleaner production processes. We model this transition as a change in "general purpose technology"...

Production often causes pollution as a by-product. Once pollution problems become too severe, regulation is introduced by political authorities which forces the economy to make a transition to cleaner production processes. We model this transition as a change in "general purpose technology"...

Diese Studie wurde für das Umweltbundesamt erstellt und soll darüber hinaus Anstöße für das vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung initiierte Projekt "Neue Techniken für den integrierten, medienübergreifenden Umweltschutz" liefern. Den Hintergrund für die Studie bildet die...

This essay argues that, rather than being a constitutional bulwark against environmental regulation, certain kinds of property rights can actually ease constitutional barriers created by current Supreme Court doctrine. These environmental property rights (EPRs) are either rights to prevent...

Environmental performance, environmental risk and its management are of contemporary interest, but to date there is limited evidence on their relationships. This paper is the first to provide detailed insights by adopting a content analysis approach and disaggregating firm-level environmental...