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Coherence, efficiency, and independence of the EU environmental policy system : results of complementary statistical and econometric analyses

Zagonari, Fabio - 2015

This paper presents the first empirical test of coherence (i.e., consistency of policies within a framework), efficiency (i.e., ability of policies to meet their objectives), and independence (i.e., logical priority of objectives over policies) of the overall EU environmental policy system. To...

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Abatement-Cost Heterogeneity and Anticipated Savings from Market-Based Environmental Policies

Newell, Richard G.; Stavins, Robert N. - 2003

Policy makers and policy analysts in the environmental realm are frequently faced with situations where it is unclear whether market-based instruments hold real promise of reducing costs, relative to conventional command-and-control approaches. We develop some simple rules-of-thumb that can be...

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Policy Mix for Environmental Protection. A Transaction Cost Approach

Buergenmeier, Beat - 2003

This paper uses a transaction cost approach in order to classify the different policy options that are currently discussed in relation to the Kyoto protocol. It analyses the market as only one of the possible collective decision making processes, which are available to operationalize the concept...

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The Influence of Environmental Policy on Innovative Behaviour : An Econometric Study

Hemmelskamp, Jens - 2015

The political and scientific debate related to a sustainable development has stressed above all the importance of environmental innovations with respect to exploiting resources, to production, consumption and disposal. Such environmental innovations can: *develop, introduce and apply new ideas,...

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Is Ecolabelling a Reliable Environmental Policy Measure?

Dosi, Cesare; Moretto, Michele - 1999

Ecolabel award schemes have become increasingly popular. Their rationale is to enable (concerned) consumers to identify "green" products. By so doing, ecolabelling should stimulate environmental innovation, and induce firms to reduce the supply of conventional (polluting) products. Our analysis...

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Global Environmental Regulation : Instrument Choice in Legal Context

Wiener, Jonathan B. - 2014

instrument for controlling environmental externalities. But this debate has largely been confined to the context of national law … a majoritarian voting rule which can compel sources of externalities to comply, and executed through a federalist … reluctant sources of externalities--a "beneficiaries pay" rather than a "polluters pay" approach. And it shows that making such …

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Cost?Benefit Analysis and Environmental Policy

Pearce, David - 2008

The use of cost?benefit analysis (CBA) in British environmental policy has gone through several stages. Early applications of CBA tended to ignore environmental impacts altogether, leave them for a subsidiary 'impact analysis', or provide only a partial monetization of impacts. Currently, CBA is...

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An Inconvenient Solution? An Economic and Political Analysis of Global Warming Policy

Martin, Michael J. - 2009

Eleven years after the United States signed the Kyoto Protocol, climate change policy remains stalled in the United States. While 177 countries have ratified the Kyoto Protocol and several countries have enacted strong climate change policies, the United States has lagged behind primarily over...

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An Economic Approach to Monitoring Pollution Accidents

Gottinger, Hans W. - 2014

We model the occurrence of an environmental accident as a stochastic event, in particular the situation of an oil spill is explored. Characteristics of the ship operator, and the different types of the ship's operating environment determine a stochastic process governing the time patterns and...

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Economic Incentives for Environmental Regulation

Stavins, Robert N. - 2001

This paper, prepared for The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law, provides a summary of the theory and the … charges and tradeable permits, and show that these instruments, in theory, meet the specified condition. Then, six U …

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