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Decoupling: Is there a Separate Contribution from Environmental Taxation
(2011-01)
Decoupling is a crucial topic in the analysis of sustainable development.
Without decoupling, continuing and increasing economic growth in
developed and developing countries would come with ever increasing
environmental ...
Do Markets Trump Politics? Evidence from Fossil Market Reactions to the Paris Agreement and the U.S. Election
(2018-03)
The Paris Agreement was acclaimed as a milestone for climate negotiations. It has also been criticized – as too soft by environmentalists and too constraining by the current U.S. administration, which has decided to leave. ...
The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth - A Multiple Country Test of an Oath Script
(2010-11)
Hypothetical bias is one of the main issues bedeviling the field of nonmarket valuation. The
general criticism is that survey responses reflect how people would like to behave, rather than how
they actually behave. In ...
Synergies and Trade-offs between Climate and Local Air Pollution: Policies in Sweden
(2012-04)
In this paper, we explore the synergies and tradeoffs between abatement of global and local pollution. We built a unique dataset of Swedish heat and power plants with detailed boiler-level data 2001-2009 on not only ...
Emissions Trading Subject to Kantian Preferences
(2018-01)
We study a cap-and-trade market equilibrium where different regions belonging to an emissions trading regime have different ambitions about the stringency of the cap. Specifically, we introduce a segment of consumers with ...
Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Services Provision: A Tale of Confused Objectives, Mulitple Market Failures and Policy Challenges
(2012-10)
Most research and funding in conservation has been oriented toward biodiversity per se. Until recently there has been little tangible effort in linking conservation to ecosystem service provision. Nevertheless, this trend ...
Is Fairness Blind? - The effect of framing on preferences for effort-sharing rules
(2010-03-29)
By using a choice experiment, this paper focuses on citizens’ preferences for effort-sharing
rules of how carbon abatement should be shared among countries. We find that Swedes do not
rank the rule favoring their own ...
Diffusion of NOx abatement technologies in Sweden
(2014-01)
This paper studies how different NOx abatement technologies have diffused under
the Swedish system of refunded emissions charges and analyzes the determinants of the time to adoption. The policy, under which the charge ...
Integrating Soil Science into Agricultural Production Frontiers
(2012-12)
This paper integrates soil science variables into an economic analysis of agricultural output among small-scale farmers in Kenya’s highlands. The integration is valuable because farmers’ choice of inputs depends on both ...
Paying for Mitigation: A Multiple Country Study
(2010-05-17)
Unique survey data from a contingent valuation study conducted in three different countries (China, Sweden, and the United States) were used to investigate the ordinary citizen’s willingness to pay (WTP) for reducing CO2 ...