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Why Does General Deterrence Exist? A Study of Drinking Water Quality Regulation
Zhao, Dan; Lyon, Thomas P. - 2022
This paper studies the general deterrence effect associated with regulatory enforcement actions, using data on the quality violations and regulatory enforcement records of all 141,290 active drinking water systems in the U.S. between 1980 and 2017. We find that general deterrence among drinking...
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Regulation in Transition
Davis Noll, Bethany; Revesz, Richard L. - 2020
Presidents have long sought to roll back their predecessors’ regulatory policies. They have typically relied on efforts to repeal regulations and to withdraw unpublished or non-final regulations pursuant to “stop-work” orders directed at agency heads. President Trump is no exception. But...
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Price versus quantities versus indexed quantities
Branger, Frédéric; Quirion, Philippe - 2014
We develop a stochastic model to rank different policies (tax, fixed cap and relative cap) according to their expected total social costs. Three types of uncertainties are taken into account: uncertainty about abatement costs, business-as-usual (BAU) emissions and future economic output (the two...
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Energy and Environmental Markets, Industrial Organization, and Regulation
Kellogg, Ryan; Reguant, Mar - 2021
the topics examined by this literature—especially auctions, investment, productivity and innovation, and regulation … markets and environmental regulation. We emphasize the substantive contributions of recent papers while also highlighting how …
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A Note on Pollution Regulation with Asymmetric Information
Pench, Alberto - 2016
The paper addresses the problem of information asymmetry between a regulator and the polluting firms and proposes a very simple mechanism where the regulator is free to choose, without communicating in advance to the firms, between two instruments: an effluent fee or a standard: as a result in a...
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Improving Efficiency in the MSW Collection and Disposal Service Combining Price Cap and Yardstick Regulation : The Italian Case
Beccarello, Massimo - 2019
Municipal solid waste collection and disposal service is a key element of the European strategy aimed at moving towards a circular economy. An efficient municipal solid waste collection and disposal is closely related to both lower waste tax and higher welfare of the interested population. In...
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The Economics of Hydro-Meteorological Disasters : Approaching the Estimation of the Total Costs
Balbi, Stefano - 2013
Hydro-meteorological disasters have caused increasing losses in recent years. Efficient risk reduction policies require accurate assessment approaches, with careful consideration of costs, beyond direct tangible costs, which are commonly used in practice. Faced with possible risk reduction...
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Environmental taxes and productivity : Lessons from Canadian manufacturing
Yamazaki, Akio - 2022
This paper investigates how environmental taxes affect manufacturing productivity by examining British Columbia …’s revenue-neutral carbon tax. I develop a new hypothesis, the ‘‘Productivity Dividend Hypothesis,” to show that environmental … taxes can positively affect productivity by recycling tax revenues to reduce corporate income taxes. This revenue …
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Wasserwirtschaftssysteme : eine Analyse ökonomischer und politischer Handlungen in der Wasserwirtschaft
Cvijanovic, Sasa - 2008
.3.3.3.2 Yardstick Competition in der Wasserwirtschaft.... 76 2.3.4 Regulierung und … 177 4.2.2 England und Wales 178 4.2.2.1 Historische Entwicklungen ….3.2 England und Wales 253 4.3.2.1 Natürliches Wasservorkommen 253 4 …
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On the Economics of Optimal Urban Groundwater Management in the Desert Southwest
Hansen, Jason K. - 2011
Climate change and population growth anticipate the need for efficient, sustainable, long-term groundwater management. Groundwater serves as the primary water source for approximately 80 percent of public water systems in the United States and for many more as a secondary source. Traditionally...
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