Questions tagged [environmental-economics]
The application of economics to issues in the natural environment; especially concerning climate change.
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Economic damage of (single pieces) of plastic
I want to know the impact of individual plastic items on everything (us, animals, the Earth...) all converted into money. For example, this bottle generally brings about a damage of x dollars, that ...
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Is there any evidence for tragedy of the commons or is it all actually the tragedy of private ownership?
The tragedy of the commons is sold as the idea that common property is over used, and thus arguments are made that there should be regulations over the commons, or it should be owned privately, ...
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How do I derive optimal tax on pollution causing intermediate products?
I am reading "The Environment and Directed Technical Change" by Acemoglu et al. (2012).
I cannot understand how the optimal tax in \eqref{eqA10} is derived.
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Building an environmental computable general equilibrium for a developping country
I managed to get help from this website in 2014 for my masters thesis, and now I'm back with more questions.
I'm a PhD student and the issue at hand concerns environmental economics and the costs of ...
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How Does Economics Address Society's Major Existential Threats?
Given our societal emphasis on the pace of 'progress', often overlooking its direction, we face a multitude of existential challenges [1]. These range from the looming threat of nuclear warfare and ...
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Relationship between Urbanization and GHG Emissions
I built a model to measure the impact of population, wealth, technology and urbanization on greenhouse gas emissions (as measured by $N_2O$ emissions) in my country, following the STIRPAT framework, ...
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International Spillovers of environmental policies
I'm trying to put together a literature review of papers tackling the international spillovers of environmental policies, particularly theoretical contributions. I haven't been able to find much.
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Incidence of cap and trade [closed]
Is there a way to show the incidence of cap and trade in a diagram? Similar to how in an indirect tax graph you can show consumer and producer incidence. I assume that the consumer incidence of cap ...
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Parameters of ENV-GROWTH model for SSPs' GDP projection?
I'm searching to reproduce the ENV-GROWTH model used for the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs).
The ENV-GROWTH model is a IAM used by OECD OECD website. It has been detailed in the Long-term ...
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Are they CO2 emission factors for primary energy consumption?
I'm searching for CO2 emission factors for primary energy consumption. What I mean by that is a table like the one below.
Primary Energy
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Natural Gases
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Does consumer demand in the secondhand market actually affect the firsthand market for high-cost goods
In the 21st Century, there is an increasing consumer awareness of the externalities of manufacturing and along with it a stronger consumer preference to buying used goods rather than new.
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Difference-in-difference robust to heterogeneous treatment effect - Gendron-Carrier et al. specification
I am trying to extend the results of Gendron-Carrier et al. (2022) article published in the American Economic Journal : Applied Economics which is about the effect of subway opening on pollution.
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Effect on Price of Emissions Permits of Progressively Reducing the Cap on Emissions in an Emissions Trading Scheme
Suppose that, in order to address climate change, a country has an emissions trading scheme comprising the following elements:
The scope of the scheme is defined to include most industries that ...
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What can be done when pigouvian taxes must be so high that black markets become viable?
The whole point of a pigouvian tax is to force producers to bear an extra cost equal to the total social cost of a good right? But, the problem this presents is, what if the social cost is very high? ...
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Help me find again a paper I saw which calculated a high social cost of carbon
A month or two ago I came across a paper which calculated the social cost of carbon taking into account that less well off countries would be disproportionately affected by climate change, leading to ...
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References about environmental economics
do you know any textbook, or any website providing free lectures or lecture notes, or anything, that would introduce me to environmental economics? I have a master in economics so I am not against ...
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Positive externalities of cars - free seats on public transport
I was in a discussion about externalities surrounding private and public transport.
Someone argued that by taking a car they are creating a positive externality by not taking up a seat on a bus or ...
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Is Hal Varian's intermediate microeconomic externality graph wrong?
Here is the capture from Hal Varian's Intermediate Microeconomics chapter Externality.
I remember clearly my lecturer said this graph is wrong several years ago, but I cannot remember the argument ...
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Is climate change an economic question?
The assumption that the Keeling Curve can be approximated with a function
$$k=A+B\cdot e^{\alpha t}$$
leads to a solution with $A=258.6$, $B=4,243\cdot 10^{-13}$ and $\alpha=0.0166$ with a high ...
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First and Second-Best
Why are environmental instruments like Pigovian-taxes or the Coase-Theorem viewed as first-best solutions, while taxes or tradable permits are viewed as second best? How do they differ, and what makes ...
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Utility maximization: pollution and housing prices
A factory releases a toxic pollutant which causes two types of damage to a representative area resident whose utility function is $U(S,H,x)= a \cdot \log(S) + b \cdot \log(H) + c \cdot \log (x)$ where ...
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Which are the principal economic barriers to a circular economy?
The discussion usually revolves around issues such as product design, cultural awareness, etc. I wonder what the fundamental economic barriers are.
I see a fundamental issue e.g. in transaction costs ...
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Would a Weather and Climate Change class be helpful to peruse a career in environmental economics [closed]
I’m an undergraduate student and want to become an environmental economist. Would it be beneficial to take a class on weather and climate change or should I stick with economics courses geared towards ...
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Is there a conventional list of pollution categories to consider in calculations? [closed]
In researching economic damage from various pollutants, I often find that it's very random sources that inform me of various pollutants I need to be mindful of in calculations. Is there any kind of ...
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Is there a standard density-dependent calculation method for demographic extrapolations?
In trying to come up with a method of evaluating the damage from pollution, I did not see a "demography" site or "population dynamics" site so I am not sure where else to ask this. ...
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why don't we also pay money to industries that have a negative carbon footprint?
I understand that taxes (Pigovian taxes) can be used to steer the economy in a certain way. For example, if you increase the taxes on things related to cigarettes, the price increase will decrease the ...
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Travel Cost Method - how to treat people who live at a site
We are about to do a survey using the individual travel cost method to value a harbour, located in a fishing society, which is visited by tourists each season. My question is - should we include in ...
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Is the use/consumption of natural resources considered an externality per se?
On a finite planet natural resources are rival goods by definition, i.e. if one agent uses/consumes a natural resource it becomes unavailable for other agents.
Mankiw defines an externality as "the ...
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Could a carbon tax be a substitute for VAT?
VAT is a tax on consumption. However, while in some instances it taxes negative externalities (e.g. fossil energy consumption) in many other cases it taxes services without externalities or ...
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Do carbon taxes in place today apply to carbon embedded in imports?
I’m giving the example of Sweden whose carbon tax is highly regarded and which is the highest in Europe.
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Sweden has a carbon tax of €110 / t. Source
This tax does not apply to installations ...
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What would the price of carbon emissions need to be for the EU to achieve its objective to be carbon neutral by 2050?
The EU committed to net zero green house emissions by 2050. (Source)
It is regularly said that the a carbon tax of USD 40-80 / t CO2e (USD 50-100 by 2030) would be sufficient to reach the Paris ...
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Why can goods be reallocated when there is market failure?
Hanley, Shogren, and White (2007) states that "A market failure occurs when the market does not allocate scarce resources to generate the greatest social welfare. A wedge exists between what a private ...
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How can I control for trade between UK and Australia in my difference-in-difference trade model?
I am doing a report on whether environmental regulation has an impact on trade, using a difference-in-difference model and seeing whether the EU Industrial Emissions Directive had an effect on UK ...
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Is my reasoning about economic growth and environmental sustainability correct?
Below is my attempt to answer question "Can we have economic growth and environmental sustainability?".
Please correct me if I got something wrong in my reasoning.
Let's see what is counted as ...
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What would the consequences of an economy-wide 500EUR/tonne carbon tax be?
I recently calculated that Finnish car owners effectively pay 500 EUR per every tonne of carbon dioxide emitted from the tailpipe of a car. This payment is caused by three taxes that are in practice ...
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Why aren't we seeing carbon taxes in practice?
(See also a version of this question under politics, https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/48764/why-arent-we-seeing-carbon-taxes-in-practice)
It seems that there are many advantages to carbon ...
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Which is more economical with resources, an e-tick or a paper ticket?
I always get an e-ticket on my mobile, to save the environment and so on.
But then I thought well, am I really saving trees? I have to give my phone a full charge in order that it doesn't run out ...
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How does fuel tankering save airlines money
The aviation industry practice of fuel-tankering has been in the news recently. As the BBC describes it: "planes are filled with extra fuel, usually to avoid paying higher prices for refuelling at ...
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Does recycling lead to fewer jobs?
Say I buy a glass bottle, I can either put it in the landfill or recycle it.
My understanding is, glass will breakdown into sand. (Not sure how well though, since we sometimes find glass from Roman ...
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Socio-Economic Consequences of Nation-Wide Vegan Diet [closed]
An advice I often hear regarding our environmental impact is to 'stop consuming meat and dairy products'. This is stated as the number one way to reduce your ecological footprint, according to ...
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Public Bads and Non-Excludability
The term "public bad" is sometimes used for "goods" which, like public goods, are non-excludable and non-rival, but which tend to lower rather than raise welfare. Air pollution is an example.
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What is the most accessible work of Herman Daly?
I am an undergrad with limited experience in the fields of economics and ecology, and having recently discovered the work of the celebrated economist Herman Daly, who has been writing for decades ...
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Papers on International Trade and Environment
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As a requirement to get my bachelor's in economics, I have to write a paper. The theme I picked is something along the lines of "the impact of environmental crimes and regulation on ...
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Policy to maintain cleanliness
In countries where littering is a problem and the regulations and rules alone cannot give the desired effect due to vary high population,large surface area,etc.. ,will it be effective if the ...
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International emissions trading
As far as I have understood emission right certificates are some kind of currency. Each company may emit as much of say CO2 as its certificates allow. Certificates may be traded, i.e. bought and sold. ...
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Sources on Border Carbon Adjustment
A large number of US economists have signed a Statement on Carbon Dividends, advocating a revenue neutral carbon tax as the best policy measure to reduce carbon emissions and so mitigate climate ...
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derivation of pigou taxes in multiple polluter case
I can`t quite wrap my head around one step in deriving the pigou tax in a multiple polluter case.
There are j firms, which produce joint product in amount of $k_j$.
Joint product can be abated, ...
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Urgent answer needed! [closed]
I am currently studying in 12th. We have a subject called EVS - Environmental Studies. So as usual, we have to do projects. I chose "Bad effects of Plastic".
In the project book I have to write that ...
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A maximization program expressed by per capita variales - Ramsey model
I have a problem to be maximized with the following program
$$max\int_{0}^{\infty}\left\{ u\left(C\right)+\beta S^{\chi}\right\} e^{-\rho t}dt$$
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$$\dot{S}=\left(1-S\right)S-\...
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Command and control policy approach graph
I'm unsure why a command and control policy approach to pollution will still have a dead weight loss? What happens with it/ or what does the government do about it if anything?
