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Are demand elasticities affected by politically determined tax levels? : simultaneous estimates of gasoline demand and price
(2007-10-14)
Raising the price of fossil fuels is a key component of any effective policy to deal with climate change. Just how effective such policies are is decided by the price elasticities of demand. Many papers have studied this ...
Have Countries with Lax Environmental Regulations a Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries?
(2009-12-04)
We aim to study whether lax environmental regulations induce comparative advantages, causing
the least-regulated countries to specialize in polluting industries. The study is based on Trefler and Zhu’s
(2005) definition ...
Discrimination in Scientific Review - A natural field experiment on blind versus non-blind review
(2009-12-09)
This paper analyzes the impacts of gender, as well as other author characteristics, on reviewers’ grading of papers submitted to an international conference in economics in Sweden in 2008. Correcting for other variables, ...
Does experience eliminate the effect of a default option? - A field experiment on CO2-offsetting for air transport
(2009-10-23)
Earlier research has shown that using a default option has a decisive effect on individuals’ choices. In many cases, however, the low proportion of subjects who switch from the pre-set default option might partly explained ...
Bioeconomic Model of Community Incentives for Wildlife Management Before and After CAMPFIRE
(2009-12-03)
This paper formulates a bioeconomic model to analyze community incentives for wildlife
management under benefit-sharing programs like the Communal Areas Management Programme for
Indigenous Resources (CAMPFIRE) in Zimbabwe. ...
Agricultural Risk Management through Community-Based Wildlife Conservation in Rural Zimbabwe
(2009-12-03)
This paper investigates whether the risk faced by rural farmers in Zimbabwe could poten-
tially be managed by using community-based wildlife conservation. Community-based wildlife
conservation could be an additional asset ...
Public Disclosure of Industrial Pollution: The PROPER Approach for Indonesia?
(2009-12-08)
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 ...
Output and Abatement Effects of Allocation Readjustment in Permit Trade
(2009-12-08)
In permit trading systems, free initial allocation is common practice. A recent example is
the European Union Greenhouse Gas Emission Trading Scheme (EU-ETS). We investigate
effects of different free allocation schemes ...
Corporate environmental management in transition economies: The case of Central and Eastern Europe
(2009-12-04)
We use firm-level data to study the adoption of Environmental Management Practices
(EMPs) in the most polluting industrial sectors in Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland,
Romania, and Slovakia during the 1990 – 1998 ...
Muddy Waters: Soil Erosion and Downstream Externalities
(2009-01-27)
Soil erosion and fertilizer run-off cause serious flow externalities in downstream environments
through-out the world. Social costs include e.g. loss of health, life and production due to pollution and
eutrophication of ...