…the effect of price disparities between virgin and recovered materials, and to assess the effect of other economic factors associated with waste markets, such as additional processing and transportation costs….
…(Hourcade, this volume). Long-run price elasticities in the energy sector are not well-understood. A problem is that energy prices do not want to change. Crude oil prices, one of the…
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…effects of population and wealth. The change in absolute national consumption of a product is simply the sum of the three components of the identity. The national statistics that we…
…of its batteries. Consumers cheerfully pay for these benefits, unlike for energy efficiency per se. More generally I doubt fiddling with prices has much long run effect on the energy…
…each age, with 20-year-olds eventually gaining 20 years, 50-year-olds 11, and 80-year-olds 3 (Figure 3). In fact, one can also map with a logistic the final gain versus age, as we…
…preset the starting point and the slope on the basis of the effects one wants to reach. More importantly, one can avoid the wild, painful excursions around the trend organized…
…Air Quality Standards are from Environmental Quality . Emissions and average daily maximum concentrations are reported in Environmental Protection Agency, 1990, National Air Quality and Emissions Trends Report, EPA-450/4- 90-…
…gradually implying chronic effects is essential to understanding and eventually reducing their risk. Annual data do not contain this information. Chronic environmental effects require long-term studies to determine properly their…
…Marchetti (1991) “Building bridges and tunnels: The effects on the evolution of traffic”. In A. Montanari (ed), Under and Over the Water: The Economic and Social Effects of Building Bridges and…