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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Permit markets"”.
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Essays on Environmental Regulation
… of trade restrictions in environmental permit markets, I study common trade restrictions—segmentation and production requirements—in Iceland’s fisheries permit market, showing how they increase employment and compress the income distribution at an efficiency cost. Second, in the U.S. …
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Energy production, distribution, and pollution controls: Combining engineering and economic analysis to enhance efficiency and policy design
… efficiency or policy design within energy markets. ^ The first paper combines a chemical engineering plant design model with an economic assessment of product enhancements within an ethanol production facility. While a new chemical process is shown to achieve greater ethanol yields, the …
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Three Essays in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics
This dissertation analyses the impact 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. …
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Essays on Risk and Uncertainty in Greenhouse Gas Trading Markets
… and trading rights to emit carbon in carbon permit markets. However, landowners may be liable for repaying all or some of the proceeds received for sequestering carbon if stored carbon is released during the contract period. Hurricane damage to forests may cause extensive mortality and …