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Environmental Justice and the Tragedy of the Commons

Stein, Gregory M. - 2022

In "The Tragedy of the Commons," Garrett Hardin argues that those who can use a resource for free consume more of it than they would if they had to pay for it. Public resources eventually collapse because people overuse them. Hardin’s widely accepted argument seems correct as far as it goes,...

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Electricity provision with intermittent sources of energy

Ambec, Stefan; Crampes, Claude - In: Resource and Energy Economics 34 (2012) 3, pp. 319-336

We analyze the interaction between a reliable source of electricity production and intermittent sources such as wind or solar power. We first characterize the optimal energy mix, emphasizing the availability of the intermittent source as a major parameter for the optimal investment in capacity....

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Conflictos asociados al uso del suelo: una aproximación al área de conservación óptima en el Páramo de Santurbán

Etter, Laura Calderón - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2014

Los servicios ecosistémicos que prestan los páramos no cuentan con un precio de mercado y como consecuencia la asignación del uso del suelo en estos ecosistemas resulta ineficiente. En este artículo se estudia el caso del Páramo de Santurbán usando un enfoque de optimización dinámica...

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Electricity Production with Intermittent Sources

Ambec, Stefan; Crampes, Claude - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2010

The paper analyzes the interaction between a reliable source of electricity production and intermittent sources such as wind or solar power. We first characterize the first-best dispatch and investment in the two types of energy. We put the accent on the availability of the intermittent source...

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Electricity Production with Intermittent Sources

Ambec, Stefan; Crampes, Claude - Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse … - 2010

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Climate change and the irreversibility effect: combining expected utility and MaxiMin

Lange, Andreas - 2002

, considering prospective learning increases today?s abatement effort, i.e. the ?irreversibility effect? holds, if the weight on EU … is small. This contrasts standard results on the irreversibility effect for EU which translates to small weights on … MaxiMin. There is, however, the possibility of a negative value of learning. It is shown that the irreversibility effect holds …

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Ex-ante regulation and ex-post liability under uncertainty and irreversibility: governing the coexistence of GM crops

Beckmann, Volker; Soregaroli, Claudio; Wesseler, Justus - 2009

standard model is advanced by including irreversibility and uncertainty and taking into account transaction costs of …

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Ex-ante regulation and ex-post liability under uncertainty and irreversibility: governing the coexistence of GM crops

Beckmann, Volker; Soregaroli, Claudio; Wesseler, Justus - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 4 (2010) 2010-9, pp. 1-33

standard model is advanced by including irreversibility and uncertainty and taking into account transaction costs of …

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Which Firms Invest Less Under Uncertainty? Evidence from Ethiopian Manufacturing

Shiferaw, Admasu - 2009

degrees of investment irreversibility defined on the basis of market structures and access to secondary markets for capital … partial irreversibility. …

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Exchange rate uncertainty and firm investment plans: Evidence from Swiss survey data

Binding, Garret; Dibiasi, Andreas - 2016

A sudden change in monetary policy happened in Switzerland on January 15th, 2015. The Swiss National Bank removed a lower exchange rate bound vis-à-vis the Euro. This unexpected change of regime induced a temporary uncertainty about future prices in foreign markets. We believe that this hampers...

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