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Showing 1 to 20 of 126 for “"Environmental Economics"”.
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Essays in Environmental Economics
… dissertation considers how spatial targeting of environmental policy trades off economic development and environmental surplus. In Chapter 1, I quantify global inefficient and spatially misallocated agricultural deforestation: carbon emissions-intensive deforestation on land with low agricultural …
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Essays in environmental economics
This thesis examines various aspects of environmental economics. The first chapter estimates how individuals' beliefs about climate change are affected by local weather fluctuations. Climate change is a one-time uncertain event with no opportunities for learning; the belief updating process may not …
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Environmental economics: An Austrian approach
This thesis applies Austrian economic theory to environmental goods. It emphasizes capital, interest and entrepreneurial satisfaction of consumer demand for environmental goods. Although provision of several types of environmental goods is mentioned, the final application is to groundwater …
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Essays on International and Environmental Economics
This thesis consists of three chapters employing quantitative open economy models to study international trade transmission, the economic impacts of climate change, and remittance transfers. The first chapter examines the role of production sharing and trade in the transmission of the 2008-2009 …
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Essays on Environmental Economics and Policy
… and public goods. The rationale for most modern environmental regulations stems from the failure of markets to efficiently allocate goods and services. Yet, as with any policy, distributional effects are important there exist clear winners and losers. Despite the clear theoretical justification …
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Essays on Public and Environmental Economics
… chapter of my dissertation is on the political economics of corruption. This is a relevant question in the Environmental Economics due to the human factors involved in government regulations. We investigate the effects of unhindered corruption in the entry-certifying process of an industry on …
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Essays in development and environmental economics
… empirical essays on economic development and environmental economics. Chapter 1 measures the response of U.S. based multinational firms to the Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA), which dramatically strengthened U.S. environmental regulation. Using a panel of firm-level data over the period …
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Essays on Empirical Industrial Organization and Environmental Economics
This dissertation contributes to two major research areas: the analysis of endogenousproduct characteristics in structural models of demand and dynamic models of invasive species management. In the first chapter, I analyze claims of falling business travel demand in the US following the COVID-19 …
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ESSAYS ON ISSUES IN PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
This dissertation is composed of three applied economics essays about important topicsin public and environmental economics. The first is an analysis of the distributional effects of demand shocks or demand-shifting policies in the context of energy markets and climate policy. The second focuses on …
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Spatial processes in environmental economics: empirics and theory
… welfare effects of policies that affect local environmental quality. Using a series of simulations, motivated by a real world policy application, I contrast the welfare changes derived under this model to a conventional static approach. By allowing for rental and purchase markets the model I …
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Three Essays on Environmental Economics and International Trade
The environmental impact of international trade has become an important issue, especially in emerging economies, due to their increasingly important roles in world trade, economic and environmental issues. This thesis is concerned with understanding the relationship between trade and the …
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Spent Nuclear Fuel Disposal Liability Insurance (Environmental Economics)
This thesis examines the social efficiency of nuclear power when the risks of accidental releases of spent fuel radionuclides from a spent fuel disposal facility are considered. The analysis consists of two major parts. First, a theoretical economic model of the use of nuclear power including the …
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Three essays on environmental economics in developing countries
… dissertation focuses on research questions in environmental economics, in the context of developing countries. Specifically, I focus on two main themes. The first one is related to the relationship between agricultural productivity and deforestation, as well as the effect community forest …
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Three Essays in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics
… of political and macroeconomic uncertainties on environmental outcomes and design of policy instruments. The first essay examines how the rate of agricultural land expansion in tropical countries depends on the nature and persistence of new political regimes. We use a novel panel data method that …
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Three Quasi-Experimental and Experimental Papers in Environmental Economics
… techniques to contribute to the literature on environmental and resource economics in three distinct ways but with the overarching goal of demonstrating the usefulness of experimental techniques to explore topics related to the environment. First, chapter one demonstrates the feasibility and …
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Theoretical aspects of long-term evaluation in environmental economics
… analysis renders contributions to the fields of environmental economics, decision theory, the economics of sustainability and cost benefit analysis. The thesis is structured in three parts. The first part examines the relation between the concepts of weak and strong sustainability and the weight …
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Three essays on environmental economics: externalities and policy implications
… consists of three studies in applied environmental and energy economics, using both applied theoretical models and empirical approaches. Externalities, especially issues that are unanticipated or have been largely overlooked, are the primary focuses throughout the whole thesis. The …
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Applications of Forest-Based Machine Learning Methods in Environmental Economics
This dissertation sits within applied environmental economics and relies on advanced forest‑based machine‑learning methods. The first two papers use a double‑residualized Causal Forest framework to analyze a contingent‑valuation survey on water quality, estimating how self‑selected respondent …
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Human Behaviour and the Environment: Experiments in Behavioural Environmental Economics
… the primary cause of global climate change and environmental degradation, but also key to responding and adapting to them. Tackling the climate crisis thus requires a complete understanding of human behaviour. So far, however, environmental policies have largely been guided by the canonical …
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