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To Trade or Not to Trade: Firm-Level Analysis of Emissions Trading in Santiago, Chile

Coria, Jessica; Löfgren, Åsa; Sterner, Thomas - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

Whether tradable permits are appropriate for use in transition and developing economies—given special social and cultural circumstances, such as the lack of institutions and lack of expertise with marketbased policies—is much debated. We conducted interviews and surveyed a sample of firms...

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Targeted Enforcement and Aggregate Emissions With Uniform Emission Taxes

Coria, Jessica; Villegas-Palacio, Clara - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2010

In practice, targeted monitoring seems to be a strategy frequently used by regulators. In this paper, we study the effects of targeted monitoring strategies on the adoption of a new abatement technology and, consequently, on the aggregate emissions level when firms are regulated with uniform...

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Public Disclosure of Industrial Pollution: The PROPER Approach for Indonesia?

García López, Jorge; Sterner, Thomas; Afsah, Shakeb - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of the Program for Pollution Control Evaluation and Rating (PROPER) in Indonesia. PROPER, the first major public disclosure program in the developing world, was launched in June 1995; though it collapsed in 1998 with the Asian financial crisis, it is currently...

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Environmental Policy when People's Preferences are Inconsistent, Non-Welfaristic, or simply Not Developed

Johansson-Stenman, Olof - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2001

This paper discusses how a benevolent policy maker should act based on some, possibly non-welfaristic,ethical principle in cases where people's preferences are not perfectly informed,consistent and fully developed with regard to all goods, including all kinds of environmental goods, as is...

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Unintended Impacts of Multiple Instruments on Technology Adoption

Coria, Jessica - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

There are many situations where environmental authorities use a mix of environmental policy instruments, rather than one single instrument, to address environmental concerns. For example, one instrument may be used to reduce overall emissions of a pollutant while another is used to address...

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Taxes, Permits and the Adoption of Abatement Technology under Imperfect Compliance

Villegas, Clara; Coria, Jessica - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

his paper analyzes the effects of the choice between price-based and quantity-based emission regulations on compliance … taxes, the extent of violations under tradable emission permits (TEPs) decreases with the rate of technology adoption …. However, in terms of welfare, the ranking of the instruments is not so straightforward: taxes induce lower emission damages …

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Do EPA administrators recommend environmental policies that citizens want?

Carlsson, Fredrik; Kataria, Mitesh; Lampi, Elina - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

We investigate whether Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator preferences regarding improvements in environmental quality differ from citizen preferences. The scope and significance of the possible difference are assessed by conducting identical choice experiments (CE) on a...

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Tradable Permits in Developing Countries: Evidence from air pollution in Santiago, Chile

Coria, Jessica; Sterner, Thomas - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

Santiago was one of the first cities outside the OECD to implement a tradable permit program to control air pollution. This paper looks closely at the program’s performance over the past ten years, stressing its similarities and discrepancies with trading programs implemented in developed...

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The Political Economy of Refunded Emissions Payment Programs

Fredriksson, Per G.; Sterner, Thomas - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2004

Lobbying by pollution firms is commonly viewed as having a negative impact on the stringency of environmental policy. We ask whether lobbying instead can bring about stricter environmental policy, and how imperfect property rights affect the policy outcome. We study the effects on the...

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The Fiscal Consequences of Unrestricted Immigration from Romania and Bulgaria

Ruist, Joakim - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2014

When Romania and Bulgaria joined the EU in 2007 Sweden was one of two EU15 countries that did not restrict access to … capita. This result is used to discuss expected corresponding net contributions in other EU15 countries, several of which …

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