Showing papers in "Journal of Environmental Economics and Management in 2003"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors employ panel data models to study how environmental innovation by US manufacturing industries responded to changes in pollution abatement expenditures and regulatory enforcement during the period 1983 through 1992.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether compositional changes in pollution arising from trade liberalization originate due to differences in capital-labor endowments and/or differences in environmental regulations.

TL;DR: In this paper, a spatial-econometric hedonic housing price model is developed and estimated for the Seoul metropolitan area to measure the marginal value of improvements in sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen dioxide (NOx) concentrations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the welfare effects of emissions taxes, auctioned emissions permits, and free (grandfathered) permits, when technological innovation is endogenous, and find that there is no unambiguous case for preferring any of these policy instruments.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used data on productivity and pollution abatement costs at individual pulp and paper mills to test whether the impact of environmental regulation on productivity differs by plant vintage and technology.

TL;DR: The authors explored the linkages between trade policy, corruption, and environmental policy and found that the effect of trade liberalization on the stringency of environmental policy depends on the level of corruption.

TL;DR: In this paper, an integrated bioeconomic model of the sea urchin fishery in northern California and use it to simulate reserve policies is presented. But, the model assumes that effort is spatially uniform and unresponsive to economic incentives.

TL;DR: In this paper, a simple analytical model incorporating benefits of a stock, costs of adjusting the stock, and uncertainty in costs was used to uncover several important principles governing the choice of price-based policies relative to quantitybased policies for controlling stock externalities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed the impact of two popular solid waste programs on the percent recycled of several different materials found in the residential solid waste stream and found that curbside recycling has a significant positive effect on the percentage recycled of all five materials and that the level of this effect varies across different materials.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate that when the future path of the discount rate is uncertain and highly correlated, the distant future should be discounted at significantly lower rates than suggested by the current rate.

TL;DR: This article examined the impacts of open space designation on the urban landscape in a spatial city model with two important and empirically relevant features: (1) residents prefer to live close to open space and (2) open space amenities attract migrants to the city.

TL;DR: In this article, a detailed electricity model linked to an integrated assessment framework to value changes in human health was used to find that a tax of $25 per metric ton of carbon emissions would yield NOx-related health benefits.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider two sets of policy instruments (uniform policies for the firms and policies that discriminate between the firms based on their environmental quality) and find that while a uniform subsidy policy improves average environmental quality, a uniform tax policy worsens it.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the efficiency of alternative contracts for carbon sequestration in cropland soils, taking into account the spatial heterogeneity of agricultural production systems and the costs of implementing more efficient contracts.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the econometric modeling and response effects associated with multiple-bounded, polychotomous-choice payment questions and found that using multiple bids with responses to each bid can increase the efficiency of welfare estimates, but this approach is not free from bid design effects.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the influence of warm glow in willingness to pay (WTP) responses and found that individual differences in warm glow motivation are measured through a factor analysis, performed on a list of attitudinal items.

TL;DR: The authors found that facilities' emissions into the air and water are systematically higher in counties that border other states, consistent with the hypothesis that local regulators are more lenient in their treatment of polluters when the incidence of pollution falls partially on those outside the state.

TL;DR: In this paper, a script designed by Cummings and Taylor was used in hypothetical referenda that differed in payment amount, and the script worked remarkably well at higher payment levels (dropping the likelihood of a yes vote to the level obtained in separate sample real referenda), but less well at a lower payment level.

TL;DR: The authors compared survey results with the voting outcome of a Corvallis, Oregon, referendum to fund a riverfront improvement project through increased property taxes and found that survey responses match the actual voting outcome and mean willingness to pay (WTP) estimates based on the two are not statistically different.

TL;DR: In this paper, a real-option model of land conversion incorporating return uncertainty and sunk costs is presented, showing that optimal conversion thresholds are significantly higher than those from expected net present value models not accounting for these factors.

TL;DR: In this article, a testbed laboratory experiment was conducted in which landholder/sellers in sealed-offer auctions competed to obtain part of a fixed budget allocated by the regulator to subsidize abatement.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider a Schumpeterian model of endogenous growth with creative destruction in which a non-renewable natural resource is introduced and derive the precise levels of economic policy instruments that allow the implementation of the optimum.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the efficiency implications of policies to reduce global carbon emissions in a world with pre-existing tax distortions and present a large-scale computable general equilibrium model of the world economy with distortionary taxation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the amount and quality of information that would be voluntarily delivered to some stakeholder by a potential polluter and find that information may be hazier when the stakeholder is confident (or naive) a priori, the cost of analyzing the received reports increases little with their complexity, or a polluter's net expected payoff from undertaking an industrial activity that would turn out to be unsafe is small.

TL;DR: The authors argued that governments may have good reasons for setting an especially strong environmental policy even though firms are fully rational, if the available abatement technology turns the environment into an inferior input.

TL;DR: The authors developed a model of open access wildlife exploitation, habitat conservation and agricultural expansion, which is consistent with rural communities at the fringe of natural habitats in areas such as sub-Saharan Africa.

TL;DR: In this paper, an inspection minimizing targeting scheme with two groups is derived, where firms are moved at random into the target group, while escape from the target groups occurs only when an inspection reveals the firm is in compliance.

TL;DR: In this paper, a general equilibrium ecosystem model that can include large number of interacting species is presented, and the theory is applied using simulations of an eight-species Alaskan marine ecosystem for which a natural equilibrium is calculated.

TL;DR: In this article, the marginal willingness to pay for small changes in climate variables is derived using this technique applied to Italian data, showing that households would prefer a drier climate during the winter months, but higher summertime temperatures are shown to reduce welfare.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare taxes and emissions permits in a dynamic setting in which firms behave strategically and find that strategic firms facing an emissions tax have an incentive to overabate in order to obtain a lower tax in the future.