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Public Policy Towards Offshore Oil Spills
Mason, Charles F. - 2017
On April 20, 2010, the Macondo well suffered a blowout, causing the mobile offshore drilling unit “Deepwater Horizon” to explode and eventually sink. Oil flowed from the well into the Gulf of Mexico for 87 days. In the aftermath of this event, the US Government proposed significant...
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Environmental Regulation and Productivity Growth in the Euro Area : Testing the Porter Hypothesis
Benatti, Nicola; Groiss, Martin; Kelly, Petra; … - 2023
This paper analyses the impact of changes in environmental regulations on productivity growth at country- and firm-level. We exploit several data sources and the environmen-tal policy stringency index, to evaluate the Porter hypothesis, according to which firms’ productivity can benefit from...
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More Gas, Less Cole, and Less CO2? Unilateral CO2 Reduction Policy with More than One Carbon Energy Source
Daubanes, Julien - 2017
We examine an open economy's strategy to reduce its carbon emissions by replacing its consumption of coal - very carbon intensive - with gas - less so. Unlike the standard analysis of carbon leakage, unilateral carbon-reduction policies with more than one carbon energy source may turn...
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The Role of Fiscal Instruments in Environmental Policy
Kosonen, Katri - 2009
Environmental protection is one of Europe's key values. The EU has set clear policy objectives to achieve its … environmental goals. The EU has favoured market-based instruments, among which fiscal instruments to tackle the climate change …
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Climate Policies : A Burden or a Gain?
Bréchet, Thierry; Tulkens, Henry - 2021
That climate policies are costly is evident and therefore often creates major fears. But the alternative (no action) also has a cost. Mitigation costs and damages incurred depend on what the climate policies are; moreover, they are substitutes. This brings climate policies naturally in the realm...
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Drought and Groundwater Management
Amundsen, Eirik S. - 2016
This paper considers the problem of a water management authority faced with the threat of a drought that hits at an uncertain date. Three management policies are investigated: i) a laissez-faire (open-access) policy of automatic adjustment through a zero marginal private net benefit condition,...
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On the Many Ways Europeanization Matters : The Implementation of the Water Reform in Italy (1994-2006)
Asquer, Alberto - 2013
'horizontal' interaction between domestic actors and how these actors make use of stimuli originating from the EU. This paper aims … the period between 1994 and 2006. The analysis shows the role played by the use of monetary incentives provided by EU … funding sources, by changes in the institutional context partially originating from EU factors, and by the rulings of the …
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Green Serves the Dirtiest : On the Interaction between Black and Green Quotas
Böhringer, Christoph; Rosendahl, Knut Einar - 2014
Tradable black (CO2) and green (renewables) quotas gain in popularity and stringency within climate policies of many OECD countries. The overlapping regulation through both instruments, however, may have important adverse economic implications. Based on stylized theoretical analysis and...
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Delayed Participation of Developing Countries to Climate Agreements : Should Action in the EU and US be Postponed?
Bosetti, Valentina - 2015
This paper analyses the cost implications for climate policy in developed countries if developing countries are unwilling to adopt measures to reduce their own GHG emissions. First, we assume that a 450 CO2 (550 CO2e) ppmv stabilisation target is to be achieved and that Non Annex1 (NA1)...
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Asymmetric Innovation Agreements Under Environmental Regulation
Aoyama, Naoto - 2018
In a domestic market, a duopoly produces a homogeneous final good, pollution, pollution abatement and R&D. One of the firms (foreign) has superior technology. The government regulates the duopoly by levying a pollution tax to maximize domestic welfare. We consider the potential implementation of...
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