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Subsidies to Industry and the Environment

Kelly, David L. - Department of Economics, School of Business - 2006

to environmentally sensitive industries increases output and pollution emissions. We examine the environmental effects of … pollution emissions if resources are moved to an industry for which emissions intensity is high enough to overcome the reduction …

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International Spillovers and Water Quality in Rivers: Do Countries Free Ride?

Sigman, Hilary - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick - 2001

Emissions Monitoring System (GEMS), it compares pollution levels in international and domestic rivers. The results suggest that … free riding may substantially increase pollution in international rivers, but the estimates are sensitive to the inclusion …

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TRADE LIBERALIZATION, RESOURCE DEGRADATION AND INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: AN INTEGRATED ANALYSIS

Coxhead, Ian; Jayasuriya, Sisira - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2003

“Environmental damage” is in reality many different types of phenomena, each with a unique set of causes and characteristics. We present an analytical model identifying intersectoral and interregional links of economy and environment and explore consequences of trade policy and world price...

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How Large are Australia's Greenhouse Gas Emissions?

Creedy, J.; Martin, C. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1998

This paper compares alternative estimates of the extent of Australia's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. While the total amount cannot be known with certainty, debate concerning appropriate policies to deal with and monitor emissions must rely on estimates. However, it is shown that there are...

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Environmental Regulation as Export Promotion: Product Standards for Dirty Intermediate Goods

McAusland, Carol - In: Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy 3 (2004) 2, pp. 1367-1367

volumes and pollution levels. Our focus is on the case with economies of scale in intermediate good production. In this … pollution. …

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Economic Geography and the Effect of Environmental Pollution on Agglomeration

Lange, Andreas; Quaas, Martin - In: Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy 7 (2007) 1, pp. 1724-1724

We study how local environmental pollution affects spatial patterns of economic activities when workers can migrate … the damages caused by local pollution. We thereby provide a unified framework for discussing different relationships …

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Networking to promote energy efficient and environmentally sound technologies in small and medium scale industries

Kumar, S.; Visvanathan, C.; Kannan, R.; Herrera, Alice B. - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 17 (2002) 3, pp. 171-188

high energy and generate pollution. They also lack information on Energy Efficient and Environmentally Sound Technologies … related to efficient energy use and reduction in pollution. This could also be useful to other countries. The Asian Institute … institutions, industrial associations, government and non-governmental organisations conduct research on energy- and pollution …

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Experimental investigation of temperature, fuel and catalyst type on NO>SUB align=right>>SMALL>x>/SMALL>>/SUB> discharge in catalytic boilers

Polyvoda, F.A.; Kabakov, V.I. - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 22 (2004) 1, pp. 78-86

The experimental investigation of temperature effect on the discharge of pollutants in catalytic boilers was carried out in this paper. The comparison of flame and catalytic combustion revealed the advantages of catalytic combustion from the viewpoint of less NOSUB align=rightSMALLx/SMALL/SUB...

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Selling Mayberry: Communities and Individuals in Law and Economics

Parchomovsky, Gideon; Siegelman, Peter - University of Pennsylvania Law School

at the edge of town, caused it serious pollution problems. Although the plant was worth substantially more than the town …

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Selective penalization of polluters: an inf-convolution approach

Long, Ngo; Soubeyran, Antoine - In: Economic Theory 25 (2005) 2, pp. 421-454

We consider an asymmetric polluting oligopoly. We demonstrate that optimal tax rates per unit of emission are not the same for all firms. We call this property selective penalization. Our Optimal Distortion Theorem states that the efficient tax structure requires that high cost firms pay a...

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