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Environmental Valuation : The Sum of Specific Damages Approach

Graves, Philip E. - 2014

There is no abstract for this book chapter. It outlines one of the commonly used methods of valuing environmental improvements, discussing the implicit assumptions about perceptions that are embedded in this approach

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Chapter 7. Quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics: Opportunities and challenges

Deschenes, Olivier; Meng, Kyle C. - In: Handbook of environmental economics : Volume 4, (pp. 285-332). 2018

This paper examines the application of quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics. We begin with two observations: (i) standard quasi-experimental methods, first applied in other microeconomic fields, typically assume unit-level treatments that do not spill over across units; (ii)...

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The Hedonic Method : Value of Statistical Life, Wage Compensation, and Property Value Compensation

Graves, Philip E. - 2011

There is no abstract for this book chapter, however it describes how the hedonic method is used to infer the value of a statistical life as well as environmental and other amenities. The emphasis is upon the policy implications of employing this approach, since many others have summarized the...

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Quasi-Experimental Methods in Environmental Economics : Opportunities and Challenges

Deschênes, Olivier - 2018

This paper examines the application of quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics. We begin with two observations: i) standard quasi-experimental methods, first applied in other microeconomic fields, typically assume unit-level treatments that do not spill over across units; (ii)...

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On the effects of linking voluntary cap-and-trade systems for CO2 emissions

Weitzman, Martin L.; Holtsmark, Bjart - 2018

Linkage of cap-and-trade systems is typically advocated by economists on a general analogy with the beneficial linking of free-trade areas and on the specific grounds that linkage will ensure cost effectiveness among the linked jurisdictions. An appropriate and widely accepted specification for...

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Cost Effective Non-Point Source Pollution Control : Mandatory BMPs v.s. Ambient Subsidies in the Florida Everglades

Bao, Ken - 2022

On a theoretical front, environmental economists have one last pollution problem to contend with and that is the issue … of non-point source pollution (NPSP). The issue of NPSP is important on many levels but central to this field is how to … observable group pollution; this is known as an ambient mechanism. The Everglades Forever Act (EFA) of 1994 is the only such …

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A new look at the pollution halo hypothesis : the role of environmental policy stringency

Akbulut, Hale; Yereli, Ahmet Burçin - In: Estudios de economía 50 (2023) 1, pp. 31-54

The effect of Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, has attracted the attention of researchers in recent years. However, the indirect effects of environmental policies in the process were not sufficiently considered. This study uses a panel threshold methodology to...

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The causal effect of trade liberalization on the environment

Onwachukwu, Chinedu Increase; Yan, Isabel Kit‐Ming; … - 2021

This study investigated the effect of trade liberalization on carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions. The exogenous reduction in trade restrictions due to countries' accession to the World Trade Organization is used as a measure of trade liberalization. Using the...

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The Effectiveness of Incomplete and Overlapping Pollution Regulation : Evidence from Bans on Phosphate in Automatic Dishwasher Detergent

Cohen, Alex; Keiser, David - 2017

regulations. We study how recent bans on phosphate in household dishwasher detergent affect pollution loads to waterways, costs at …

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Natural Resource Damage Assessment for the Hebei Spirit Oil Spill : An Application of Habitat Equivalency Analysis

Kim, Tae-Goun - 2018

International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund for any of these accidents, because there is no adequate natural resource damage …

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