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Can "Austrian economics" provide a new approach to environmental policy?

Stocker, Ferry - 1997

Whereas 'traditional environmental economics' - considering pervasive 'market failure' in the form of negative externalities as the root cause of the problem of environmental degradation - argues for specific government intervention in the market process via a host of different measures to...

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The influence of information-based initiatives and negotiated environmental agreements on technological change

Ashford, Nicholas Askounes - 1997

-proven technologies, or require incremental to radical innovation. This paper addresses the likely effects on technological change of a … requirements; the negotiation of emission, effluent, waste and technology-based standards for compliance; innovation waivers … industries (as a result of performing technology options analysis), or (3) to undertake incremental technological innovation, or …

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Voluntary agreements in environmental policy: Negotiating emission reductions

Schmelzer, Dirk - 1997

Voluntary agreements are an important environmental policy instrument. In the paper some examples are discussed and the structure and mechanisms of voluntary agreements are analyzed using a strategic game approach. In the simple strategic game with only one abatement technology, there is a...

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The cost efficiency of voluntary agreements for regulating industrial pollution: A Coasean approach

Glachant, Matthieu - 1997

This paper deals with the cost efficiency of target-based voluntary agreements for reducing industrial pollution. These agreements are contracts between a public body and an industrial association including the collective commitment of the industrial sector to reach a pollution abatement...

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Externalities, collective goods and the requirement of a state's intervention in pollution abatement

Lévêque, François - 1997

. The paper surveys the market failures theory revisionism as initiated by Coase (1960) and developed in the law and …

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Voluntary approaches to environmental protection: The role of legislative threats

Segerson, Kathleen; Miceli, Thomas J. - 1997

Recently, attention has turned to the use of voluntary agreements between regulators and polluters as an alternative to mandatory approaches based on regulation or legislation. Voluntary agreements have the potential to reduce compliance costs by allowing greater flexibility and to reduce...

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Environmental regulation through voluntary agreements

Gêarn Hansen, Lars - 1997

Voluntary agreements with polluting industries are becoming a popular alternative to traditional environmental regulation. One reason may be that voluntary agreements can reduce compliance costs of polluting industries. In this paper we develop a family of simple policy formulation and...

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A dynamic model of environmental policies: The case of innovation oriented voluntary agreements

Aggeri, F.; Hatchuel, Armand - 1997

classical approaches of regulation, particularly the regulatory capture theory and its agency-theory extensions. An explanation … theoretical and dynamic perspectives : H1 : an "operational" theory of legal regulation ; H2 : market transactions seen as …

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Voluntary agreements with industry

Storey, Mark; Boyd, Gale Allen; Dowd, Jeffrey - 1997

Voluntary Agreements (VAs) are becoming increasingly prominent in many countries as a policy instrument for achieving improvements in the environmental performance of industry. They aim to encourage industry led initiatives to set and meet environmental goals, to raise the environmental profile...

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Electoral mechanisms and pressure groups: The mix of direct and indirect taxation

Fiorentini, Gianluca - 1997

This paper describes the fiscal structure of a community as an equilibrium of a non-cooperative game where members of different pressure groups - characterised by conflicting interests - compete to get distributive gains. Their interaction is regulated by a constitution which sets the electoral...

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