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The Netherlands in the UNFCCC Process –Leadership between Ambition and Reality
Andersson, Magnus; Mol, Arthur - In: International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law … 2 (2002) 1, pp. 49-68
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Economic Impacts of the 1997 EU Energy Tax: Simulations with Three EU-Wide Models
Jansen, Heinz; Klaassen, Ger - In: Environmental & Resource Economics 15 (2000) 2, pp. 179-197
macroeconomic impacts when the tax revenuesare used to reduce social security contributions paidby employers. For the EU as a whole … ormacro-econometric), the EU countries covered and theway tax exemptions were handled. Crucial assumptionsto obtain the … ``double dividend'' are the modelling ofthe labour market and the impacts on EU externaltrade. The sensitivity of the results …
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Environmental Protection and Natural Resources
Sánchez-Rodríguez, Roberto; Mumme, Stephen - Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, UC San Diego - 2010
Environmental issues and the management of natural resources have become a significant element of the binational relationship between Mexico and the United States during the last three decades. The environmental challenges now shaping the bilateral agenda for environmental cooperation are...
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Economic and Environmental Benefits of Eliminating Log Export Bans; The Case of Costa Rica
Kishor, Nalin M.; Mani, Muthukumara; Constantino, Luis F. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2001
An increasing number of tropical timber producing nations have enacted bans on export of logs. Proponents argue that a log export ban is a second-best policy tool for addressing environmental externalities; it also creates more jobs and improves scale efficiencies domestically. Theoretical...
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Public Expenditure Policy and the Environment; A Review and Synthesis
Miranda, Kenneth M.; Parry, Ian W.H.; Gupta, Sanjeev - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1993
Commonly cited environmental instruments in the legal, regulatory, and fiscal domains are intended primarily to address market failures to ensure that environmental degradation and resource use is contained to appropriate levels. However, in many instances, environmental degradation is rooted...
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Strategic Voting for Noncooperative Environmental Policies in Open Economies
Hattori, Keisuke - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper, we construct a political-economy model of international noncooperative environmental policymaking, and examine the strategic incentives for voters to elect an environmental policymaker in open economies. We show that under several circumstances, citizens have an incentive to...
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Now or Never: Environmental Protection under Hyperbolic Discounting
Winkler, Ralph - CER-ETH Center of Economic Research, Department of … - 2006
In this paper, we extend the well known result that hyperbolically discounting agents tend to postpone costs into the future. In a simple model we show that, without commitment to the ex ante optimal plan, no investment in environmental protection is undertaken over the whole time horizon, no...
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Environmental regulation and horizontal mergers in the eco-industry
Canton, Joan; David, Maia; Sinclair-Desgagne, Bernard - European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE - 2008
This paper considers the environmental policy and welfare implications of a merger between environment firms (i.e., firms managing environmental resources or supplying pollution abatement goods and services). The traditional analysis of mergers in Cournot oligopolies is extended in two ways....
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Benefit-Cost Analysis of Environmental Projects: A Plethora of Systematic Biases
Graves, Philip E. - CESifo - 2010
There are many reasons to suspect that benefit-cost analysis applied to environmental policies will result in policy decisions that will reject those environmental policies. The important question, of course, is whether those rejections are based on proper science. The present paper explores...
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The Porter Hypothesis at 20: Can Environmental Regulation Enhance Innovation and Competitiveness?
Ambec, Stefan; Cohen, Mark A.; Elgie, Stewart; Lanoie, Paul - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2010
Twenty years ago, Harvard Business School economist and strategy professor Michael Porter stood conventional wisdom about the impact of environmental regulation on business on its head by declaring that well designed regulation could actually enhance competitiveness. The traditional view of...
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