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Instrument Choice in Environmental Policy
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In this article, the authors examine the extent to which various environmental policy instruments meet major evaluation criteria for pollution control, and they conclude that the choice of pollution control instrument is a crucial environmental policy decision.Abstract:
The choice of pollution control instrument is a crucial environmental policy decision. We examine the extent to which various environmental policy instruments meet major evaluation criteria...read more
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Assessing Transformation Pathways
Leon Clarke,K Jiang,Keigo Akimoto,Mustafa H.M. Babiker,Geoffrey J. Blanford,Karen Fisher-Vanden,Jean Charles Hourcade,Krey,Elmar Kriegler,Andreas Löschel,David L. McCollum,Sergey Paltsev,Steven K. Rose,Priyadarshi R. Shukla,Massimo Tavoni,M Zwaan,Detlef P. van Vuuren +16 more
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The impacts of environmental regulations on competitiveness
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the empirical literature on the impacts of environmental regulations on firms' competitiveness as measured by trade, industry location, employment, productivity, and in-state productivity.
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Creating culturally sustainable agri-environmental schemes
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that agri-environmental schemes are not "culturally sustainable", i.e. the actions are not becoming embedded within farming cultures as part of conventional "good farming" practice.
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The Social Costs and Benefits of Biofuels: The Intersection of Environmental, Energy and Agricultural Policy
Harry de Gorter,David R. Just +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the efficacy of alternative biofuel policies in achieving energy, environmental and agricultural policy goals is assessed using economic cost-benefit analysis, showing that government mandates are superior to consumption subsidies, especially with suboptimal fuel taxes and the higher costs involved with raising tax revenues.
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Appropriating the Returns from Industrial Research and Development
Richard C. Levin,Alvin K. Klevorick,Richard R. Nelson,Sidney G. Winter,Richard Gilbert,Zvi Griliches +5 more
TL;DR: A patent confers, in theory, perfect appropriability (monopoly of the invention) for a limited time in return for a public benefit as mentioned in this paper, however, the benefits consumers derive from an innovation, however, are increased if competitors can imitate and improve on the innovation to ensure its availability on favorable terms.
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Prices vs. Quantities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the problem of central control in a large economic organization, where the basic operating rules from the centre take the form of quotas, targets, or commands to produce a certain level of output.
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The Search for R&D Spillovers
TL;DR: This article reviewed the empirical evidence for R&D spillovers and concluded that they are a major source of endogenous growth in various recent "New Growth Theory" models, and that they should be investigated further.
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Environmental and Technology Policies for Climate Mitigation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the relative performance of policies according to incentives provided for emissions reduction, efficiency, and other outcomes, and assess how the nature of technological progress through learning and research and development (R&D), and the degree of knowledge spillovers, affects the desirability of different policies.
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Measuring the Social Return to R&D
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors derive the relationship between the social rate of return to R&D and the coefficient estimates of the empirical literature and show that these estimates represent a lower bound.