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作者:Popp, D
作者单位:Syracuse University
摘要:one advantage often cited for market-based environmental policies is that they are more likely to promote technological innovation than are command and control regulations. This paper uses patent data to study innovation in flue gas desulfurization units (scrubbers) across these policy regimes. Plant level data indicate that the effect of these patents on pollution control changed after passage of the 1990 Clean Air Act, which instituted a market for sulfur dioxide (SO2) permits. Previous regu...
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作者:Lin, AC
作者单位:University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
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作者:Chaudry, A
作者单位:The New School
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作者:Brown, TL; Potoski, M
作者单位:University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; Iowa State University
摘要:Managing contracts is a complex process, often exacerbated by high transaction costs inherent in negotiating, implementing, and monitoring contract relationships with vendors. Through analyses of data from a 1997 International City/County Management Association survey of municipal and county governments, the way in which municipal and county governments respond to transaction cost factors inherent in contract service delivery is examined. The results of the analyses demonstrate that when gover...
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作者:Derthick, M
作者单位:University of Virginia
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作者:O'Rourke, D; Macey, GP
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要:This paper evaluates a new form of public participation in environmental monitoring and regulation advanced through local bucket brigades, which allow community members to sample air emissions near industrial facilities. These brigades represent a new form of community environmental policing, in which residents participate in collecting, analyzing, and deploying environmental information, and more importantly, in an array of public policy dialogues. Use of this sampling technology has had mark...
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作者:Janow, ME
作者单位:Columbia University
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作者:Derthick, M
作者单位:University of Virginia
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作者:Harrison, K; Antweiler, W
作者单位:University of British Columbia; University of British Columbia
摘要:In the last decade, voluntary efforts by firms to reduce their environmental impacts have received increasing attention from both policymakers and scholars. This article discusses polluters' incentives to reduce their releases. In particular, using data from Canada's National Pollutant Release Inventory, it examines the impacts of conventional regulation, threats of regulation, and non-governmental pressures facilitated by public dissemination of information about pollutant releases. The vast ...
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作者:Schweitzer, L
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Los Angeles