Cost-benefit analyses are commonly applied to assess the net welfare effects of policies to improve surface water quality. These analyses often disregard the biophysical fact that from implementation of policy measures to resulting improvements on water quality there will typically be...

We analyse the costs and benefits of increasing capital requirements for Danish banks. Costs can be close to 0 if banks suspend dividend payments for a period of time as banks accumulate capital and if investors' required return falls. The latter implies that the Modigliani-Miller effect is...

This paper provides a survey of top-down modelling studies on mitigation costs and ancillary benefits in the Nordic countries, the UK and Ireland. Special emphasise is put on results concerning revenue recycling, double dividend, distributional effects, and ancillary benefits. According to the...