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Thirteen Plus One: A Comparison of Global Climate Policy Architectures

Aldy, Joseph E.; Barrett, Scott; Stavins, Robert N. - 2003

, cost effectiveness, equity, flexibility in the presence of new information, and incentives for participation and compliance … market-based approaches, especially those with price mechanisms; and participation and compliance incentives are inadequately … environmental outcome and efficiency, and between cost-effectiveness and incentives for participation and compliance. …

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Increasing participation and compliance in international climate change agreements

Barrett, Scott; Stavins, Robert - 2002

incapable of inducing significant participation and compliance. We assess the Protocol and thirteen alternative policy … compliance. We find that those approaches that offer cost-effective mitigation are unlikely to induce significant participation … negotiations — to aspects of future international climate agreements that will affect the degrees of participation and compliance …

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US land policy, property rights, and the dust bowl of the 1930s

Libecap, Gary D.; Hansen, Zeynep K. - 2001

The process of assigning property rights to land in the American Great Plains resulted in farms that were too small to be economically viable. These farms were prime contributors to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. The path dependence resulting from the initial assignment of property rights on the...

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Trip-Level Analysis of Efficiency Changes in Oregons Deepwater Trawl Fishery

Tomberlin, David; Holloway, Garth - 2007

In 2003, an industry-financed, government-administered buyback of trawl fishing permits and vessels took place on the US West Coast, resulting in the retirement of about one-third of the limited-entry trawl fleet. The lack of cost data in this fishery precludes an analysis of how the buyback has...

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Integrating climate policies in the European environment: A policy report

Carraro, Carlo; Goria, Alessandra - 1999

This report summarises the main ideas, proposals, scientific achievements, consensus and conflicting issues that emerged at the Second EFIEA Policy Workshop, held at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Palazzo delle Stelline, Corso Magenta 63, Milan, Italy, March 4th-6th, 1999. EFIEA, the European...

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The political economy of environment-development relationships: A preliminary framework

Deacon, Robert T. - 2000

The levels of public goods provided by government are determined in part by the form of political institutions in a country. Countries governed by democratic institutions arguably will provide public goods at different levels than countries ruled by autocrats or an elite group. To examine this...

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Voluntary Agreements under Endogenous Legislative Threats

Glachant, Matthieu - 2003

The paper analyzes the welfare properties of voluntary agreements (VA) with polluters, when they are obtained under the legislative threat of an alternative stricter policy option. In the model, the threat is an abatement quota. Both the threat and its probability of implementation are...

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Voluntary environmental agreements, emission taxes and international trade: The importance of the timing of strategies

Conrad, Klaus - 1999

The purpose of the paper is to narrow the gap between the widespread use of voluntary agreements and research on the rationale of such approaches. A typical example are voluntary agreements of many industries to reduce carbon dioxide emissions because of global warming. If the industry...

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Juridical framework of voluntary agreements in Italy and policy relevance at the local level

Milizia, Paola; Tamborra, Marialuisa - 2000

This paper investigates the existing Italian regulation regarding the so-called "administration by agreements" and the possibility to adapt the existing legal system to voluntary agreements in the environmental field in the light of the European guidelines on this issue. The research consists of...

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Voluntary agreements and competition law

Vedder, Hans H. B. - 2000

Many voluntary agreements (VA's) fall under the European or Dutch cartel prohibition (Article 81 EC, Article 6 Mededingingswet). This paper starts with an abstract description of the relation between competition and environmental protection. Particular attention is paid to the role in this...

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