Three Essays on the Effects of Environmental Regulations on Supply Chain Practices
Three Essays on the Effects of Environmental Regulations on Supply Chain Practices

Author: Muhammad Shumail Mazahir

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Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

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Climate change and global temperature rise has made environmental legislations a focal point of discussion. This dissertation is devoted to the study of environmental legislations and their effect on supply chain practices. More precisely, our center of interest is the product recovery based legislation along with compliance based regulations. We explore the reuse potential and the environmental and economical aspects of different product recovery based legislation schemes by modeling a stackelberg game between a social welfare maximizing policy maker and a profit maximizing monopolistic firm and find that a combination of existing recovery policies i.e., a recovery target in combination with incentive structure such as taxation/subsidy may lead to better outcomesnot only from environmental perspective but also from economical aspects. In Chapter 2, we extend the discussion comparative performance of the recovery legislation based schemes in presence of innovation and product design issues and show how unintended environmental outcomes may appear if the policy framework is not adequately designed. In Chapter 3, wecapture the effect of recovery legislation and compliance based legislation on product selection when a firm serves a number of markets. We incorporate the effects of uncertainty associated with market demands and recovery cost parameters and present a robust optimization based method for product selection and allocation decisions.

The Economic Approach to Environmental Policy
The Economic Approach to Environmental Policy

Author: A. Myrick Freeman

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 520

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These papers cover such topics as: the effects of environmental and resources policies on income distribution; the incorporation of distribution effects into environmental policy analysis; the role of economic incentives in environmental policy; the economic valuation of environment changes; and the consideration of risk and uncertainty in economic valuation and policy making. The book also includes papers on the ethical basis of environmental economics and the economic approach to environmental policy.

Essays on Environmental Regulation and Applied Microeconomics
Essays on Environmental Regulation and Applied Microeconomics

Author: Sherzod Bahadirjanovich Akhundjanov

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Published: 2016

Total Pages: 188

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In the third chapter, I examine the size distribution and the growth process of national carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions on a sample of 210 countries/territories for the period 2000-2010. The analysis demonstrates that the Pareto tails-lognormal distribution, which models lower and upper tails with Pareto and middle range with lognormal and endogenously identifies the transition points, fits the size distribution of CO2 emissions better than other distributions. The parametric analysis reveals that the upper-tail of CO2 emissions is characterized by Zipf's law. The results from non-parametric and parametric analysis establish that the growth process of CO2 emissions follows Gibrat's law.

Moving to Markets in Environmental Regulation
Moving to Markets in Environmental Regulation

Author: Jody Freeman

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2006-11-30

Total Pages: 501

ISBN-13: 0198040865

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Over the last decade, market-based incentives have become the regulatory tool of choice when trying to solve difficult environmental problems. Evidence of their dominance can be seen in recent proposals for addressing global warming (through an emissions trading scheme in the Kyoto Protocol) and for amending the Clean Air Act (to add a new emissions trading systems for smog precursors and mercury--the Bush administration's "Clear Skies" program). They are widely viewed as more efficient than traditional command and control regulation. This collection of essays takes a critical look at this question, and evaluates whether the promises of market-based regulation have been fulfilled. Contributors put forth the ideas that few regulatory instruments are actually purely market-based, or purely prescriptive, and that both approaches can be systematically undermined by insufficiently careful design and by failures of monitoring and enforcement. All in all, the essays recommend future research that no longer pits one kind of approach against the other, but instead examines their interaction and compatibility. This book should appeal to academics in environmental economics and law, along with policymakers in government agencies and advocates in non-governmental organizations.

Essays on Firms' Responses to Environmental Regulation in the U S Industrial Sector
Essays on Firms' Responses to Environmental Regulation in the U S Industrial Sector

Author: Wesley Blundell

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Published: 2017

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An understanding of how industrial firms respond to different enforcement practices and the benefits of those responses, within the context of environmental regulation, is of crucial importance because it enables us to learn about policies and institutions that are welfare enhancing. The first chapter of my dissertation examines a link between the flaring of natural gas and an increase in respiratory related hospital visits within the state of North Dakota. Results indicate that if current regulatory practices to decrease flaring had been in place during my sample period of 2007 to 2015, the total number of respiratory related hospital visits by individuals who live within 30 miles of active wells would have declined by 21%. The next two chapters focus on direct responses by firms to different regulatory enforcement strategies. In the second chapter of my dissertation, I investigate the use of state-dependent enforcement policy in the context of the Clean Air Act using a natural experiment based on the actions of regulators in Florida. I find that noncompliant manufacturing plants within the state of Florida who were not classified as "Priority Violators" increased their responsiveness to regulatory warnings following an increase in the average penalties issued to plants classified as "Priority Violators." The third and final chapter examines how the use of state-dependent enforcement policy by regulators effects both air emissions and the Clean Air Act compliance rate of manufacturing firms. Using a detailed dataset of plant-level enforcement, emissions, investment, and state-level regulatory budgets, I construct a dynamic structural model of plant investment in environmental remediation for my primary empirical analysis. My main result is that both noncompliance with the Clean Air Act and industrial emissions would have increased significantly by the end of my 8-year sample period without the current policy of subjecting "Priority Violators" to a non-linear increase in regulatory scrutiny.