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The Environment and the SUV: Any Room for Compromise?

Schnitzer, Eliza Newbold - 2002

In addition to the serious health effects caused by oil production, distribution and consumption, there are environmental as well as political effects. Equally important is the issue of our nations security. America imports 53% of the oil it consumes daily, leaving us extremely reliant on...

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Near term mitigation policy for global change under uncertainty: Minimizing the expected cost of meeting unknown concentration thresholds

Yohe, Gary; Wallace, Rodney - 1996

An aggregate integrated assessment model is used to investigate the relative merits of hedging over the near term against the chance that atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide will be limited as a matter of global policy. Hedging strategies are evaluated given near term uncertainty about...

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Campus Consignment

DeAngelo, Krista - 2009

As environmental awareness and sustainability have become more widely promoted, it has resulted in an increase in the …

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Essays on Environmental Conditions and Growth of Academic Spin-Offs

R. Sandra Schillo - 2010

research. It is composed of four papers, of which the first one provides an overview of the environment for spin-offs in Canada …

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Buyer Liability and Voluntary Inspections in International Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading: A Laboratory Study

Cason, Timothy N. - 2000

This paper reports a preliminary laboratory experiment in which traders make investments to increase the reliability of tradable instruments that represent greenhouse gas emissions allowances. In one half of the sessions these investments are unobservable, while in the other half traders can...

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Essays in Nonmarket Valuation with Applications to Environmental Economics

Domanski, Adam Matthew - 2010

Non-market valuation techniques are vital instruments of policy. Providing quantitative welfare estimates validates public policy decisions. This research independently addresses three aspects of nonmarket valuation. Hedonic valuation of industrial accidents, limitations in recreational demand...

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Can Green Be Lean?

Helper, Susan; Clifford, Patricia Gorman; Rozwadowski, Helen - 2002

Introduction:In the past, efforts to improve the environment almost always led to increasedproduction costs. In fact …

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The long-run determinants of Australian income inequality

Gaston, Noel; Rajaguru, Gulasekaran - 2009

information – has increased income inequality. In contrast, improved terms of trade have been equity-enhancing. Of the …Recent interest has been stimulated by the growth of income inequality in most developed countries during the 1980s and … development. This article uses a measure of income inequality derived from taxation statistics and a recently proposed method for …

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Employment Growth and Income Inequality: Accounting for Spatial and Sectoral Differences

Pede, Valerien O.; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Partridge, … - 2009

This paper revisits the inequality-growth relationship accounting for sectoral differences and focusing on US counties … depends on regional income inequality and a number of control variables. Spatial econometrics techniques are used to account … inequality for the Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting sector and the Real Estate, Rental and Leasing sector. However …

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Short and Long Run Decompositions of OECD Wage Inequality Changes

Edwards, T. Huw; Whalley, John - 2002

This paper focuses on the causes of increased wage inequality in OECD countries in recent years and its decomposition …. In particular, if the observed wage inequality response to price and technology shocks reflects a short-run response in … observed increases in inequality is substantially altered relative to a long-run factors mobile world. This conclusion applies …

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