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same good with a technology that employs a polluting input and a clean technology. The second-best tax and subsidy are … output but does not affect the total output. On the other hand, the subsidy leads to the monopoly to reduce the dirty output … subsidy is used provided that the marginal cost of clean output is not very high, as a linear-quadratic specification of the …
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With the expansion of renewable energy sources (RES) in countries all over the world, policy design to address the negative impacts of RES plants on their local and regional environment gains in importance. We analyse whether policy design should be spatially-differentiated or uniform when...
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I study the impact of subsidies for Plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEV) on carbon emissions. I show that subsidizing innovations without considering consumer behavior can harm the environment. I provide descriptive evidence on charging instances of PHEV and combine it with a structural model of...
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This paper shows that, when the price of emission allowances is sufficiently high, emission trading schemes improve the emission efficiency of highly polluting firms. The efficiency gain comes from a relative decrease in emissions rather than a relative increase in operating revenue. Part of the...
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-varying influences on pollution and find that toxic emissions decrease when parent companies are more exposed to the monetary policy … shock. I further find that these facilities are also more likely to implement pollution abatement activities. Examining … within-parent company heterogeneity I find that pollution abatement investments center on facilities at greater risk of …
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This paper studies the interplay between environmental performance and financial valuation of firms in Latin America and the Caribbean. We provide insights into how environmental considerations are integrated into financial decision-making and investor behavior by analyzing the stock market...
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This paper studies the interplay between environmental performance and financial valuation of firms in Latin America and the Caribbean. We provide insights into how environmental considerations are integrated into financial decision-making and investor behavior by analyzing the stock market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529773
Up to now a clear theoretical and methodological framework for economic-environmental analysis of environmentally damaging subsidies is lacking. Environmentally damaging subsidies are all kinds of direct and indirect subsidies aimed at achieving a certain (often non-environmental) goal that...
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Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off since the 1990s, as these impediments started to be gradually relaxed. People have moved in large numbers to richer cities, where productivity is higher and has increased...
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certain conditions, the optimal pollution tax is positive; otherwise, the tax reverts to a subsidy. Comparing mixed and …We study optimal pollution abatement under a mixed oligopoly game when firms engage in emissions-reducing R&D that is …
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