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Re-examining economic options for import risk assessments

Adamson, David; Cook, David - School of Economics, University of Queensland - 2007

The economic impacts of altering quarantine policies are divided into two main areas: trade evaluations, utilising a partial equilibrium approach to determine the benefits of market liberalisation; or pest management economics, used to determine the on-ground impacts of introduced species. This...

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Re-examining the economic options for import risk assessments

Adamson, David; Cook, David C. - Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society … - 2007

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Optimal environmental policy design in the presence of uncertainty and technology spillovers

Himmes, Patrick; Weber, Christoph - 2011

optimal policy design in a context with more than one externality while taking explicitly into account uncertainty surrounding …-focused. Besides uncertainty on the state of the world concerning actual marginal emission damage, we consider the technological … of entrepreneurs. To illustrate the role of uncertainty for the practical choice of policy instruments, an em …

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Can uncertainty justify overlapping policy instruments to mitigate emissions?

Lecuyer, Oskar; Quirion, Philippe - 2012

increased uncertainty concerning the future stringency of the European Emission Trading Scheme. It also gives another rationale …

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Relative Quotas: Correct Answer to Uncertainty or Case of Regulatory Capture

Quirion, Philippe - 2003

There is a tendency among policy-makers and industry lobbyists toward "specific", "relative" or "output-based" quotas, i.e., freely distributed to firms proportionally to their output. With a stochastic analytical model, we demonstrate that relative quotas are dominated either by absolute quotas...

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Complying with the Kyoto Protocol under uncertainty: Taxes or tradable permits?

Quirion, Philippe - 2002

The Kyoto Protocol on climate change allocates tradable quotas to developed countries, but let them free to choose the means to respect their quota. There are good reasons for a country not to control its firms through internationally tradable permits. We thus compare a tax and purely domestic...

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A reassessment of Argentina's GHG proposed target

Conte Grand, Mariana; D'Elia, Vanesa - 2011

At the time of Argentina's greenhouse gases emissions reduction voluntary commitment, most of the articles on intensity targets had not been published. The aim of this paper is to (re)discuss briefly the proposal made by Argentina taking into account that literature. To justify the adopted...

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Pollution abatement investment when environmental regulation is uncertain

Farzin, Yeganeh Hossein; Kort, Peter M. - 1998

rate to account for the uncertainty leads to underinvestment in abatement capital. We show how the size of this …

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Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Under Incomplete and Costly Information

Farzin, Y.H.; Kaplan, J.D. - 1999

This paper analyses the efficient management of nonpoint source pollution (NPS) under limited pollution control budget and incomplete information inherent in NPS pollution. By incorporating information acquisition into a pollution control model, it focuses on the tradeoff between data collection...

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Irreversibilities and the timing of environmental policy

Pindyck, Robert S. - 2000

there is uncertainty over future outcomes, when there are irreversibilities, and when policy adoption can be delayed. This … paper shows how two kinds of uncertainty over the future costs and benefits of reduced environmental degradation, and over …

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