Three Essays On Environmental Regulation
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Three Essays On Environmental Regulation And Economic Activities
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Author : Yue Gao
language : en
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Release Date : 2019
Three Essays On Environmental Regulation And Economic Activities written by Yue Gao and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Environmental policy categories.
Three Essays On Environmental Regulation
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Author : Craig Mitchell
language : en
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Release Date : 1995
Three Essays On Environmental Regulation written by Craig Mitchell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Environmental law categories.
Three Essays On Environmental Regulation
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Author : Subhadra Ganguli
language : en
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Release Date : 2003
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Three Essays On Environmental Regulation And Spatial Modeling
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Author : Scott Elliot Lowe
language : en
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Release Date : 2006
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Three essays are presented that integrate spatial models of pollution and regulation into economic analyses of environmental quality. The first essay analyzes the reductions in PM10 concentrations in California over the past decade, and tests whether the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments influenced this decline. Of particular interest is the delegation of power from the Environmental Protection Agency to regional air quality management districts and the spatial resolution in the pollution data used. The second essay analyzes the Regional Clean Air Incentives Market (RECLAIM), and links the behaviors of elected officials with characteristics of the facilities that are being regulated. In particular, my results show that the South Coast Air Quality Management District may have penalized facilities based on specific characteristics such as size, employment, and location, as well as their emissions of related pollutants and the emissions of neighboring facilities. The third essay provides estimates of the benefits derived from automobile-related regulations to reduce air toxics emissions. I infer a value for reductions in the risk of cancer from exposure to air toxics using a spatial dataset of air toxics cancer risk levels along with housing attributes and amenities in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Three Essays In Environmental Regulation
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Author : Paul Conant
language : en
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Release Date : 2019
Three Essays In Environmental Regulation written by Paul Conant and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Electronic dissertations categories.
This dissertation research contributes to the areas of environmental economics and industrial organization. In the first essay, I set out to understand firms' induced innovation in response to environmental regulation with an emphasis on the temporal decision making of regulated firms. I find that firms anticipate future increases in environmental stringency and strive to have patent applications submitted three years prior to the increase in environmental stringency. I find evidence that increases in the level of environmental stringency spur GHG-related innovations. In my second essay, I use a latent class model to relax the assumption of homogeneity in preference for willingness to pay (WTP) for quality improvements to the Puerto Rican coral reefs. I determine distinct subclasses and their WTP for amenity improvements in the population of visitors to Puerto Rico. Determining different subclasses' WTP allows for government policies that price discriminate using entrance fees for beaches, entrance fees for the coral reefs, and/or excise taxes on goods and services. My results indicate the two groups are indirect (beach goers, fishermen, etc.) and direct (snorkelers, divers, etc.) coral reef users. I use the results to suggest an illustrative policy that could raise approximately $9.9 million annually with a minimal impact on tourism. In my third essay, I incorporate respondents' uncertainty for visitors' WTP for quality improvements to the Puerto Rican coral reefs and the Olympic Coast Marine Sanctuary. I use a novel methodological approach, the nested uncertainty measure (NUM), and three goodness of fit measures to make comparisons to existing approaches that incorporate uncertainty. I find that my NUM improves goodness of fit for almost every measure of goodness of fit across two datasets (visitors to the Puerto Rican coral reefs and visitor to the Olympic Coast Marine Sanctuary) and two identification strategies. However, it does put positive pressure on WTP estimates exacerbating hypothetical bias.
Three Essays On The Effects Of Environmental Regulations On Supply Chain Practices
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Author : Muhammad Shumail Mazahir
language : en
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Release Date : 2016
Three Essays On The Effects Of Environmental Regulations On Supply Chain Practices written by Muhammad Shumail Mazahir and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
Climate change and global temperature rise has made environmental legislations a focal point of discussion. This dissertation is devoted to the study of environmental legislations and their effect on supply chain practices. More precisely, our center of interest is the product recovery based legislation along with compliance based regulations. We explore the reuse potential and the environmental and economical aspects of different product recovery based legislation schemes by modeling a stackelberg game between a social welfare maximizing policy maker and a profit maximizing monopolistic firm and find that a combination of existing recovery policies i.e., a recovery target in combination with incentive structure such as taxation/subsidy may lead to better outcomesnot only from environmental perspective but also from economical aspects. In Chapter 2, we extend the discussion comparative performance of the recovery legislation based schemes in presence of innovation and product design issues and show how unintended environmental outcomes may appear if the policy framework is not adequately designed. In Chapter 3, wecapture the effect of recovery legislation and compliance based legislation on product selection when a firm serves a number of markets. We incorporate the effects of uncertainty associated with market demands and recovery cost parameters and present a robust optimization based method for product selection and allocation decisions.
Three Essays On Environmental Economics And Human Behavior
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Author : Kristen Brinley Cooper
language : en
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Release Date : 2013
Three Essays On Environmental Economics And Human Behavior written by Kristen Brinley Cooper and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
The first essay of this dissertation uses a general equilibrium model of the U.S. economy to study the welfare implications of a biofuel blend mandate and consumption subsidy in the presence of pre-existing labor and fuel taxes. The tax interaction and revenue recycling effects are found to be significant relative to the overall costs of the policies and to previous partial equilibrium studies. I find empirically that the tax credit is welfare superior to the mandate for a given level of ethanol consumption, and this result is robust to the presence or absence of the labor tax. The second essay studies consumer behavior in durable goods markets. I extend a classic model of consumption with status-seeking preferences to incorporate a visible durable good stock with three attributes: quality, average item age, and stock size. "Newness" is an important feature of durable goods consumption, and I illustrate how the newness of a durable good stock, as captured by average item age, could be used as the status signal in a signaling equilibrium. I analyze Consumer Expenditure Survey data on the consumption of apparel goods which vary quasi-experimentally in visibility, and my empirical results suggest that newness and/or stock size may be used more than quality as a status signal, if consumers use apparel consumption to signal income. The third essay analyzes a model in which environmental regulation can potentially satisfy the "Porter hypothesis." I show theoretically how limited attention to waste production on the part of behaviorally-biased firm managers can result in internally sub-optimal production choices and the potential for "win-win" environmental regulation which increases net social benefits and also makes the firm itself better off.
Three Essays On The Theory Of Environmental Regulation
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Author : Insung Son
language : en
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Release Date : 2017
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This dissertation contains three original essays in the economic theory of environmental regulation. The main motivations for this work are two problems: the design of greenhouse gas (GHG) policies when emissions of these gases interact with so-called co-pollutants and the design of hybrid price and quantity policies to deal with the uncertainty in the benefits and costs of controlling GHG emissions. Abstract Concerns about how best to control GHGs have generated intense interest in the co-benefits and adverse side-effects of climate policies. Efforts to reduce CO2 emissions can reduce emissions of flow pollutants that are emitted along with CO2, which provides a co-benefit of climate policy. However, it is not always the case that efforts to reduce CO2 emissions have positive co-benefits. The challenge of climate change has also intensified research in policy design under uncertainty about the benefits and costs of controlling GHG emissions. Literature on this problem suggest that a carbon tax is more efficient than carbon trading. However, given that many existing GHG control policies feature tradable permit markets, there have been a lot of interest and innovation in hybrid schemes. The most popular form of these hybrids involves tradable emissions permits with price controls. While there is a significant literature on designing hybrid price and quantity environmental regulations under uncertainty, and another literature on regulating multiple interacting pollutants, no one has addressed the design of an emission markets with price controls for a pollutant that interacts with a co-pollutant in emission control. In Chapter 2, we investigate the optimal regulation of a pollutant given its abatement interaction with another pollutant under asymmetric information about firms' abatement costs. The co-pollutant is regulated, but perhaps not efficiently. Our focus is on optimal instrument choice in this setting, and we derive rules for determining whether a pollutant should be regulated with an emissions tax, tradable permits, or an emissions market with price controls. The policy choices depend on the relative slopes of the damage functions for both pollutants and the aggregate marginal abatement cost function, including whether the pollutants are complements or substitutes in abatement and whether the co-pollutant is controlled with a tax or tradable permits. In Chapter 3, we extend the model in Chapter 2 by allowing a pollutant to interact with a co-pollutant in both abatement and damage. In this situation, we examine the expected performance of optimal price-based regulations for the primary pollutant. We find that, given exogenous but possibly inefficient regulation of a co-pollutant, an optimal permit market, an optimal tax, and an optimal permit market with price controls all produce the same expected emissions for the primary pollutant, which deviates from its ex ante optimal emissions if the co-pollutant is regulated inefficiently. This deviation depends on 1) the interactions of the two pollutants in abatement costs and damages, 2) the deviation of the expected emissions of the co-pollutant from its ex ante optimal emissions, and 3) whether it is regulated with a fixed number of tradable permits or an emissions tax. Another important concern about permit trading has been how much regulations induce investments in abatement capital or technology. As concern about cost containment has increased, the effects of cost-containment policies on abatement investments have gained attention among researchers. In Chapter 4 we examine the effects of a hybrid policy on investment in abatement capital. We construct a dynamic stochastic model to study the decision to invest in irreversible abatement capital under an emissions market with price controls. We consider investment decisions in an emissions market with price controls, and compare these to the decisions in a market without price controls. We found that a price floor tends to increase the opportunity of investment while a price ceiling always reduces the opportunity of investment by imposing an upper bound of investment intervals. Under a hybrid regulation there exists an upper bound of abatement capital stock such that no additional investment occurs. No such upper bound exists for a pure permit trading. On the other hand, there may exist investment opportunities for low marginal abatement costs under a hybrid policy that are not available under a pure permit trading. However, when investments are required under both regulations, increases in capital stock under a hybrid regulation are likely to be less than under pure permit trading.
Three Essays On Environmental Policy And Institutions
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Author : Donald B. Marron (Jr.)
language : en
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Release Date : 1994
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Three Essays On Environmental Quality With Polluting Sectors
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Author : Nathaly Macarena Rivera Casanoba
language : en
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Release Date : 2018
Three Essays On Environmental Quality With Polluting Sectors written by Nathaly Macarena Rivera Casanoba and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Electronic dissertations categories.