Incentives for International Environmental Cooperation: Theoretic Models and Economic Instruments

Economic Incentives for Environmental Regulation

This paper provides a brief summary of the theory and the reality of economic-incentive approaches to environmental regulation. The paper begins with a derivation of the necessary and sufficient condition for a policy instrument to be cost effective, namely that the instrument induces all sources to abate emissions at the same marginal cost. Subsequent sections introduce economic-incentive poli...

Economic Incentives: Options for Environmental Protection

Economic Incentives for Environmental Protection: Integrating Theory and Practice

Dynamic Core - Theoretic Cooperation in a Two - Dimensional International Environmental Model NOTA DI LAVORO 26 . 2009

This article deals with cooperation issues in international pollution problems in a two dimensional dynamic framework implied by the accumulation of the pollutant and of the capital goods. Assuming that countries do reevaluate at each period the advantages to cooperate or not given the current stocks of pollutant and capital, and under the assumption that damage cost functions are linear, we de...

Dynamic core-theoretic cooperation in a two-dimensional international environmental model

This article deals with cooperation issues in international pollution problems in a two dimensional dynamic framework implied by the accumulation of the pollutant and of the capital goods. Assuming that countries do reevaluate at each period the advantages to cooperate or not given the current stocks of pollutant and capital, and under the assumption that damage cost functions are linear, we de...