Climate Policy Under Uncertain and Heterogeneous Climate DamagesSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 54 - Trang 79-99 - 2012
Matthias G. W. Schmidt, Hermann Held, Elmar Kriegler, Alexander Lorenz
We highlight that uncertainty about climate damages and the fact that damages will be distributed heterogeneously across the global population can jointly be an argument for substantially stricter climate policy even if uncertainty and heterogeneity in isolation are not. The reason is that a given climate risk borne by fewer people implies greater welfare losses. However, these losses turn out to ...... hiện toàn bộ
Impacts of CO2-Taxes in an Economy with Niche Markets and Learning-by-DoingSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 28 - Trang 367-394 - 2004
Reyer Gerlagh, Bob van der Zwaan, Marjan W. Hofkes, Ger Klaassen
In this paper, we analyse the impact of carbon taxes on emission levels, when niche markets exist for new carbon-free technologies, and when these technologies experience ``learning-by-doing'' effects. For this purpose, a general equilibrium model has been developed, DEMETER, that specifies two energy technologies: one based on fossil fuels and one on a composite of carbon-free technologies. Initi...... hiện toàn bộ
Environmental Quality, Medical Care Demand and Environmental Tax InteractionsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 37 - Trang 431-443 - 2006
Çağatay Koç
Assuming that improvements in environmental quality lead to lower demand for medical care, it has been shown that general-equilibrium interactions with the tax-distorted labor market reduce the benefits from such improvements, and thus lower the second-best optimal environmental tax. This paper provides some insights on how the link between environmental quality, individual’s health capital, and t...... hiện toàn bộ
Voluntary Environmental Agreements and Competition PolicySpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 28 - Trang 435-449 - 2004
Markus A. Lehmann
Voluntary environmental agreements are oftensuspected to promote collusive practicesbetween participating firms. The paperaddresses the antitrust implications ofGermany's voluntary Dual Management System forPackaging Waste Collection and Recycling (DSD). It uses analytical tools of the economictheory of the firm to examine features ofDSD's governance structure that were oftenidentified to impede c...... hiện toàn bộ
Strategic Voting for Noncooperative Environmental Policies in Open EconomiesSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 46 - Trang 459-474 - 2010
Keisuke Hattori
In this paper, we construct a political-economy model of strategic environmental policymaking with different degrees of product differentiation and different market structures, and examine how strategic voting decisions are affected by the choice of environmental policy instruments (tax or standard). We show that in a Cournot market structure, voters elect tax-setting policymakers who are more gre...... hiện toàn bộ
Estimating Mortality and Economic Costs of Particulate Air Pollution in Developing Countries: The Case of NigeriaSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 54 - Trang 361-387 - 2012
Natina Yaduma, Mika Kortelainen, Ada Wossink
The value of statistical life is an essential parameter used in ascribing monetary values to the mortality costs of air pollution in health risk analyses. However, this willingness to pay estimate is virtually non-existent for most developing countries. In the absence of local estimates, two major benefit transfer approaches lend themselves to the estimation of the value of statistical life: the v...... hiện toàn bộ
Environmental Regulation Induced Foreign Direct InvestmentSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 55 - Trang 141-158 - 2012
Robert J. R. Elliott, Ying Zhou
The last decade has witnessed a renewed interest in the relationship between environmental regulations and international capital flows. However, empirical studies have so far failed to find conclusive evidence for this so-called pollution haven or race to the bottom effect where foreign direct investment (FDI) is assumed to be attracted to low regulation countries, regions or states. In this paper...... hiện toàn bộ
Can Understanding Spatial Equilibria Enhance Benefit Transfers for Environmental Policy Evaluation?Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 69 - Trang 591-608 - 2018
Nicolai V. Kuminoff
A conceptual model of consumer sorting in markets for housing, labor and health care is outlined and used to make three points about how benefit transfers are used for environmental policy evaluation. First, the standard approach to assessing benefits of air quality improvements by transferring the value of a statistical life from labor market studies embeds several untested (but testable) assumpt...... hiện toàn bộ
Blame the Foreigners? Exports and Sulfur Dioxide Emissions in ChinaSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 80 - Trang 279-309 - 2021
Zheng Wang
This paper provides an overhaul of the contribution of exports to industrial sulfur dioxide (
$${\hbox {SO}}_2$$
) emissions in Chinese cities. My estimation strategy exploits the import demand shocks of export destination markets (net of their demand for Chinese products) as a plausibly exogenous s...... hiện toàn bộ