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Political Economy of Listing of Substances of Very High Concern in the European REACH Regulation
(2019-10)
The Candidate List of the European Union regulation on the registration, evaluation, authorization, and restriction of chemicals—known as REACH— gives advanced information to industry and other stakeholders about substances ...
Carbon Pricing: Transaction Costs of Emissions Trading vs. Carbon Taxes
(2015-01)
In this paper we empirically compare the transaction costs from monitoring, reporting and verification (MRV) of two environmental regulations directed to cost-efficiently reduce greenhouse gas emissions: a carbon dioxide ...
Prices vs Quantities with Multiple Pollutants
(2011-09)
We examine the choice of policy instrument price, quantity, or a mix of the two when two pollutants are regulated and firms’ abatement costs are private information. A key parameter that affects this choice is the technological ...
Why Do Environmental Taxes Work Better in Developed Countries?
(2011-12)
We compare of the performance of emission taxes between Colombia and Sweden in an experimental setting where subjects are regulated through environmental taxes and had to decide on emission levels, compliance behavior, and ...
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 ...
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 ...
The informational value of environmental taxes
(2019-09)
We propose informational spillovers as a new rationale for the use of multiple policy instruments to mitigate a single externality. We investigate the design of a pollution standard when the firms’ abatement costs are unknown ...
Targeted Enforcement and Aggregate Emissions With Uniform Emission Taxes
(2010-06)
In practice, targeted monitoring seems to be a strategy frequently used by regulators. In this paper, we study the effects of targeted monitoring strategies on the adoption of a new abatement technology and, consequently, ...
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 ...
Strategic environmental regulation of multiple pollutants
(2015-09)
We analyze the interplay between policies aimed to control global and local pollution such as
greenhouse gases and particulate matter. The two types of pollution interact in the abatement cost function of the polluting ...