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| Darmstadter, Joel. |
| This paper looks at the status and prospects of renewables-with particular emphasis on windpower-in the electric power sector. Although renewables account for a steadily rising share of electricity generation in various countries, their role remains small in absolute terms. In part, this is because of technological progress of and successful competition from fossil-fueled generation-notably, combined cycle gas turbines. While diminishing, subsidies continue to be indispensable to the use of renewables in most places. Viability of renewables-based electricity is undermined by the cost of externalities for which fossil energy combustion is only partially charged. A number of countries (and states in the U.S.) have launched obligatory requirements for... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Renewable energy; Electricity; Windpower; Externalities; Environmental Economics and Policy; Q21; L94. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10777 |
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| Larue, Solene; Latruffe, Laure. |
| The objective of the paper is to assess the effects of agglomeration on technical efficiency of French pig farms. We use a two-stage method to evaluate the effects of agglomeration on technical efficiency. The first stage consists in calculating pig activity’s efficiency scores with the non-parametric method Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The second stage is a truncated regression of these scores on agglomeration variables. Data are for 899 French pig producers in 2004. Results suggest that these farms were as much affected by positive agglomeration externalities (that are knowledge spillovers due to farms’ density, and also arise from farms’ closeness to downstream market) as any other businesses. There was however no evidence of negative externalities... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agglomeration; Externalities; Data Envelopment Analysis; Industrial Organization; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44272 |
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| Simpson, R. David. |
| Placing production units under common ownership is often suggested as a solution to the problem of externalities. This will not always be true when there are decreasing returns to scale. An atomistic industry could be more efficient than a monopoly in some instances. Even when the "optimal" industry configuration would involve a finite number of producers, no two may have appropriate incentives to combine. An omniscient and benign regulator can always assure a more efficient outcome than would result from the combination of private producers. Whether real-world regulators should be called upon, however, is less clear. |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Externalities; Mergers; Returns to scale; Incentives; Land Economics/Use; L23; Q24. |
| Ano: 2001 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10457 |
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| Bontems, Philippe. |
| We explore in this paper the consequences of status seeking preferences among agents contracting with a private principal in the context of production. We examine in particular the case of envy and we show that in general envy entails augmented distortions due to asymmetric information in optimal contracts. Furthermore if the principal neglects the preferences of the agents with respect to status, then potentially there is under-participation to the contract. We also show that if the principal is free to choose who can participate to the contract, then under some conditions the principal may prefer to contract with only a subset of potentially "profitable" agents (that is where his utility is strictly positive). We then ask whether contracting with agents... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Status; Adverse selection; Contracts; Envy; Externalities; Production Economics; D6; H0; D86. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/49507 |
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| Brennan, Timothy J.. |
| Lower prices for polluting goods will increase their sales and the pollution that results from their production or use. Conventional intuition suggests that this relationship implies a greater need for environmental policy when prices of "dirty" goods fall. But the economic inefficiency resulting overproduction of polluting goods may fall, not rise, as the cost of producing those goods falls. While lower costs exacerbate overproduction, they also reduce the difference between private benefit and the total social cost--the sum of private and external costs--associated with that overproduction. We derive a test, based on readily observed or estimated parameters for conditions in which the latter effect outweighs the former. In such cases, making a dirty good... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Environment; Regulatory policy; Externalities; Electricity restructuring; Environmental Economics and Policy; Q28; L51; L94. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/10776 |
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| Verghese, Shalet K.; Manjunatha, A.V.; Poornima, K.N.; Akarsha, B.M.; Rashmi, N.; Tejaswi, Pillenahalli Basavarajappa; Saikumar, B.C.; Jeevarani, A.K.; Accavva, M.S.; Amjath Babu, T.S.; Suneetha, M.S.; Unnikrishnan, P.M.; Deshpande, R.S.; Nagaraj, N.; Chandrashekar, H.; Bhat, Mahadev G.; Chengappa, P.G.; Mundinamani, S.M.; Shanmugam, T.R.; Chandrakanth, Mysore G.. |
| Paper presented at EAAE 2008 Congress |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Consumer/Household Economics; Demand and Price Analysis; Environmental Economics and Policy; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods; Externalities; Environmental services; Sustainable development. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/43617 |
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| Bredahl, Maury E.; Prestegard, Sjur Spildo; Nersten, Nils Kristian. |
| The ongoing negotiations in the WTO will most certainly lead to a further liberalization of the global agricultural trade. Related to this, many national governments, including Norway, Switzerland and Japan have placed substantial emphasis on the so-called non-trade concerns. In addition to the production of food and fiber, agriculture also provides or may provide national food security, environmental benefits, and viable rural areas. The term "Multifunctional Agriculture" has been applied to describe these additional functions. In this paper, we will show how the economic concepts of "positive and negative externalities" and "public goods" can be used to analyse non-trade concerns and multifunctionality, especially with reference to agriculture's impact... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Non-trade concerns; Multifunctionality; Externalities; Public goods; Cultural landscape; Optimum subsidy; WTO; International Relations/Trade. |
| Ano: 2002 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/24970 |
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| Bostedt, Goran. |
| This paper presents a model of pastoralists, as illustrated by reindeer herders, together with an analysis based on a cross-sectional data set on Swedish reindeer-herding Saami. The intrinsic utility of being an active reindeer herder plays an important role in determining supply. Results show this can lead to unconventional supply responses among pastoralists, and suggest that the probability of a backward-bending supply response increases with stock size. Further analyses confirm that reindeer herders with backward-bending supply curves have significantly larger herds than herders with conventional supply responses. Relaxed externalities from forestry would cause most herders to increase their slaughter. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Backward-bending supply; Externalities; Pastoralist; Reindeer husbandry; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/31209 |
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| Fogarty, James Joseph. |
| Objective: To estimate welfare maximising tax rates for beer, wine, and spirits using a mathematical model that considers both the welfare loss alcohol taxes impose on non-abusive consumers and the welfare gains due to alcohol taxes reducing externality costs. Results: Optimal per litre of pure alcohol (LAL) tax rates are substantially different to both current alcohol tax rates and the uniform tax rate recommended as part of the 2010 Australian Government Tax Review. Given an individual consumer utility decision model, the best estimate values of the welfare maximising LAL tax rates are: $37 for beer, $11 for wine, $50 for spirits, and $77 for ready-to-drink spirits. Conclusion: As externality costs and the responsiveness of consumers to price changes are... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Tax; Alcohol; Externalities; Demand and Price Analysis; Health Economics and Policy; I18; H23; H21. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/108669 |
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