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In this paper, we review 20 relatively recent empirical studies of telecommuting, all of which focus on the trip … of the studies with respect to participation and frequency of telecommuting, the effects on vehicle-miles-traveled (VMT …, there is a predominant view that certain factors increase both the likelihood of telecommuting and the frequency of …
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(SCAG). Being a relatively recent and large dataset, the survey captures the current state of telecommuting, covering the … entire region with a population of 17 million residents, and is not biased by telecommuting policies of particular employees … observe how professional experience and job tenure impact telecommuting probability. Finally, we analyze telecommuting …
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In 1999 Congress passed the National Air Quality and Telecommuting Act. This Act established pilot telecommuting … concerns through telecommuting. This study provides the first analysis of data from the “ecommute” program. Using two …-and-one-half years of data, we look at telecommuting frequency, mode choice, and emissions reductions. We also look at reporting behavior …
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This paper deals with designing emissions trading in practice. After a short introduction to the general idea of emissions trading, practical requirements for the introduction of an emissions trading scheme are considered, including the temporal and spatial dimension as well as administrative...
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China has realized that for its own sake and from the international community’s perspective, it cannot afford to continue along the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment. Accordingly, the country has placed ecological goals at the same level of...
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A well-known result about market power in emission permit markets is that efficiency can be achieved by full free allocation to the dominant firm. I show that this result breaks down when taking the interaction between input and output markets into account, even if the firm perceives market...
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We estimate the relationship between electricity, fuel and carbon prices in Germany, France, the Netherlands, the Nord Pool market and Spain, using one-year futures for base and peak load prices for the years 2009-2012, corresponding to physical settlement during the second market phase of the...
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The major greenhouse gases, CO2 and CH4, are uniformly mixing, but spatial inequalities in emissions do matter in terms of both efficiency and equity of environmental policy formation and implementation. As the recent evidence has mainly focused on convergence issues between countries, this...
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