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Numerous recent studies have indicated that interactions with a tax-distorted labor market increase the cost of pollution regulation. However, these studies have made restrictive assumptions regarding individual preferences and have ignored key links between pollution, human health, and labor...
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This paper discusses the environmental externalities that are commonly found in the developing world (the environmental …
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interacting externalities. Using regional and temporal variation in pollution and disease transmission, we find exposure to more …
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Most regulations designed to reduce environmental externalities impose costs on individuals and firms. An active body … environmental externalities. We review this burgeoning literature and develop a simple and general framework for focusing future … in an environmental good, and (ii) where an incremental change in the environment may have very different implications …
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This paper develops a simple model of a polluting industry and an innovating firm. The polluting industry is faced with regulation and costly abatement. Regulation may be taxes or marketable permits. The innovating firm invests in R&D and develops technologies which reduce the cost of pollution...
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harmful externalities, its actual use has been limited, mainly to the domain of pollution. Liability, in contrast, has great … importance in controlling harmful externalities. I compare the tax and liability here in theory and suggest that the conclusions …
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Taxation and liability are compared here as means of controlling harmful externalities. It is emphasized that liability …
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We examine an implication of the "Coase Theorem" which has had an important impact both on environmental economics and on public policy in the environmental domain. Under certain conditions, the market equilibrium in a cap-and-trade system will be cost-effective and independent of the initial...
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prevalence of small farms in the 1930s limited private solutions for controlling the downwind externalities associated with wind …
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