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This paper summarizes the economics perspective on recycling of municipal solid waste. The first section reviews recent data on recycling rates in the United States and across all OECD countries. The OECD data suggest the average aggregate recycling rate across member countries appears to have...
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compliance behavior under fixed emissions standards. As expected, we find significant differences between compliance behavior …
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the fine for disclosed violations and the assumption that firms know their compliance status without cost. When firms have … to expend resources to determine their compliance status, motivating a significant number of violation disclosures yields …
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Since firms in an emissions trading program are linked together through a permit market, so too are their compliance … compliance and emissions decisions, but also the indirect effects that occur because changes in enforcement can induce changes in …
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designed to investigate enforcement and compliance when these markets allow permit banking. Banking is motivated by a decrease …
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the fine for disclosed violations and the assumption that firms know their compliance status without cost. When firms have … to expend resources to determine their compliance status, motivating a significant number of violation disclosures yields …
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This paper uses laboratory experiments to investigate the performance of emission permit markets when compliance is … predicted values when these values were predicted to be low. Thus, although a standard model of compliance with emissions …
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public good) when their members must finance enforcement relative to when compliance is ensured without the need for costly … requiring them to finance enforcement to maintain compliance reduces the overall provision of the public good. The decrease in …
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compliance behavior under fixed emissions standards. As expected, we find significant differences between compliance behavior …
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