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Environmental Taxation - Empirical and Theoretical Applications
(2003)
This thesis consists of five self-contained articles, and hence each paper can be read independently. Still, all five papers have one important feature in common: environmental taxation.
Paper 1: The Phase-Out of Leaded ...
Environmental investment decisions: experimental evidence of team versus individual decision making
(2018-01)
We study experimentally how investment decisions are affected by equally stringent but different policy regime treatments and how differences depend on whether decisions are made individually or in groups. In our experiment, ...
The Determinants of Sulfur Emissions from Oil Consumption in Swedish Manufacturing Industry, 1976-1995
(2000)
Using a structural decomposition analysis, we analyze the causes of reduction in emitted sulfur originating from the manufacturing industry in Sweden during 1976-1995. We also analyze how policy instruments work with respect ...
Architecture of the EU Emissions Trading System in Phase 3 and the Distribution of Allowance Asset Values
(2015-10)
Recent changes to the EU Emissions Trading System introduce structural changes regarding the initial distribution of emissions allowances, which are worth tens of billions of euros. A key
change is the expanding role for ...
Common ground for effort sharing? Preferred principles for distributing climate mitigation efforts
(2011-03)
This paper fills a gap in the current academic and policy literature concerning how
parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change find
common ground when distributing commitments and responsibilities ...
Puzzling tax attitudes and labels
(2006)
We find that through labeling one can significantly affect attitudes towards a tax. The gasoline tax meets a stronger reluctance than virtually the same tax when it is called the CO2 tax on gasoline.
The Importance of Habit Formation for Environmental Taxation
(2006)
We analyze how habit formation affects optimal environmental taxation, when consumption of a habitual good causes a negative external
effect on the environment. In a simple two-period model, we show that optimal taxation ...
To Trade or Not to Trade: Firm-Level Analysis of Emissions Trading in Santiago, Chile
(2009-10-23)
Whether tradable permits are appropriate for use in transition and developing
economies—given special social and cultural circumstances, such as the lack of institutions and lack of expertise with market‐based policies—is ...
Conformity and the demand for environmental goods
(2008-02-13)
We test the hypothesis that people conform to certain social norms, i.e. that some individuals
may be willing to pay a higher price premium for green products the more widespread green
consumerism is in society. To ...
The Phase-Out of Leaded Gasoline in the EU: A Successful Failure?
(1999)
The objective of this paper is to analyze in both descriptive and econometric terms the phase-out of leaded gasoline consumption in the EU countries. The phase-out process is characterized by increased consumption of ...