This paper analyzes and compares behaviors of regulators and polluting firms in emission tax systems with and without commitment to monitoring. In the commitment case, firms can be compliant or non-compliant at equilibria. Firms’ compliance implies that regulators will face the paradox of ex...

This paper investigates the correlation between sectoral environmental performance and firm growth, using a large data set of 61,219 Italian manufacturing firms and sector environmental–economic accounts. Specifically, the paper investigates the extent to which the correlation between (past)...

This paper studies how environmental regulations affect prices. We use monthly point-of-sale data in the Japanese refrigerator market and employ the hedonic approach. Our central issue of environmental regulations involve two different types: one is the energy-saving regulation by government at...

This paper uses choice modeling surveys from the Chinese cities of Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, and Changsha, Hunan Province, to identify residential preferences for simultaneously increasing the stability of the electricity supply and decreasing the health risks from air pollution. Air pollution...

The Great Tōhoku-Earthquake and the following nuclear meltdown in Fukushima called the world’s attention to Japans’ energy and climate policy. Japan is one of the biggest emitters of greenhouses gases in the world and is still facing problems of reaching its Kyoto target by domestic...

We investigate the relationships between water quality and socioeconomic factors in California at the county level for the years 1993–2006 using 24 water quality indicators coming from seven different types of water bodies. We estimate these relationships using three classes of models: the...

As an alternative to the existing environmental policy instruments, recent literature proposes to combine different policy instruments (two-part instruments) which have most of the properties of a first-best Pigouvian tax while minimizing the need for monitoring and enforcement. This article...

Empirical evidence suggests that increased democracy reduces pollution. Using a median-voter model (where a democratization reform typically changes the income of the median voter), we analyze how the effect of a change of the individual income differs from the effect of a change in the...

We incorporate the process of policy diffusion (i.e., the uncoordinated dissemination of policies among countries) into a probabilistic two-country-model of strategic environmental policy. Contrary to the usual setting with simultaneous decision-making, we consider the impact of sequential...

Pacific sardine (Sardinops sagax) is a transboundary fish stock exploited by Mexican, US and Canadian fisheries that exhibits extreme fluctuations in its abundance and geographic distribution corresponding to water temperature regime shifts within the California Current Ecosystem. In this study,...