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Complying with the Kyoto Protocol under uncertainty : taxes or tradable permits?

Quirion, Philippe - 2002

The Kyoto Protocol on climate change allocates tradable quotas to developed countries, but let them free to choose the means to respect their quota. There are good reasons for a country not to control its firms through internationally tradable permits. We thus compare a tax and purely domestic...

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Water Law in the United States and Brazil - Climate Change & Two Approaches to Emerging Water Poverty

Cassuto, David N.; Sampaio, Romulo S. R. - 2015

This article examines two of the major water legal regimes in the Americas - that of Brazil and the United States. Both countries have extensive wet and dry regions and both hydro-regimes face a significant threat from global warming. Brazil, for instance, is home to between eight and fifteen...

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Not One Without the Other : The Challenge of Integrating U.S. Environment, Energy, Climate, and Economic Policy

Flatt, Victor Byers; Payne, Heather - 2015

Energy use is intertwined with environmental harms, climate, and economic development. However, the United States has failed to balance these interests together to make effective policy that can address each of these issues. The need for such integrative policy has become more and more obvious...

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U.S. Agriculture's Role in a Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation World : An Economic Perspective

McCarl, Bruce A.; Schneider, Uwe A. - 2015

International agreements are likely to stimulate greenhouse gas mitigation efforts. Agriculture can participate either as a source of emission reductions or as a sink for gas emission storage. Emission trading markets are likely to emerge where agriculture could sell emission offsets. Several...

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Developing a Comprehensive Approach to Climate Change Policy in the United States : Integrating Levels of Government and Economic Sectors

Dernbach, John C.; Peterson, Thomas D.; McKinstry, Robert B. - 2015

The United State Supreme Court's holding in Massachusetts v. EPA that greenhouse gases are air pollutants under the Clean Air Act makes it virtually certain that federal climate change legislation will be accomplished by amending that Act. This Article explains and justifies an approach to...

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Stated preferences for capital taxation - tax design, misinformation and the role of partisanship

Chirvi, Malte; Schneider, Cornelius - 2019

one-time wealth tax show a significant progressivity, there is no clear pattern for both periodical taxes. Furthermore … periodical capital taxes, Republicans' only articulated preference refers to the particular rejection of the estate tax …

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Estimating labour supply elasticities based on cross-country micro data : a bridge between micro and macro estimates?

Jäntti, Markus; Pirttilä, Jukka; Selin, Håkan - 2013

We utilise repeated cross sections of micro data from several countries, available from the Luxembourg Income Study, LIS, to estimate labour supply elasticities, both at the intensive and extensive margin. The benefit of the data is that it spans over four decades and includes a large number of...

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The welfare effects of persuasion and taxation : theory and evidence from the field

Rodemeier, Matthias; Löschel, Andreas - 2020

taxes on energy-inefficient products yield larger welfare gains than any information policy. We also document an important … effectiveness of taxes. …

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The Role of Policy Logic in U.S. Climate Legislation

Johnson, Kenneth C. - 2009

when emission targets do not approach sustainability requirements. Carbon taxes, by contrast, could create stable emission …-reduction incentives that are not limited by predetermined targets; but carbon taxes are politically handicapped by proponents’ insistence … vastly more efficient if the dogmatic ideologies of both cap-and-trade and carbon taxes were eschewed in favor of rational …

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Water Flow Risks and Stakeholder Impacts on the Choice of a Dam Site

Bicak, Hasan; Jenkins, Glenn; Ozdemirag, Ali - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2000

This study evaluates three alternative locations for building a fresh water dam in the Yesilirmak Valley of North Cyprus. Each of the three sites has different investment costs, water storage capabilities and socio-political repercussions. These kinds of tradeoffs have in recent years...

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