Essays about: "Market-based instruments"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 18 essays containing the words Market-based instruments.

  1. 6. The impact of environmental policy stringency on FDI flows: Evidence from BRIICS-OECD flow panel dataset

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Sofia Sacks; [2018]
    Keywords : environmental policy stringency; pollution haven; FDI; fixed effects; location hypothesis; BRIICS; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The Paris Agreement has increased interest in environmental policy research, which has alerted that companies will relocate their investment to countries with less stringent environmental standards. This pollution haven effect, although theoretically analyzed, has wide-ranging empirical results which are highly dependent on the selected case and proxy for environmental policy stringency. READ MORE

  3. 7. Reducing emissions in the Mexican power sector : Economic and political feasibility analysis of policy mechanisms

    University essay from KTH/Energi och klimatstudier, ECS

    Author : Camila Barragán; [2017]
    Keywords : Mexico; market-based instruments; carbon-pricing; climate policy; electricity; political economy; Balmorel;

    Abstract : A comparative assessment of market-based climate policy instruments –carbon tax vs. ETS– for emission reduction in the Mexican electricity sector is presented. Model-based scenarios of different tax and cap levels were simulated on an existing Balmorel partial equilibrium model populated with data from the Mexican electricity system. READ MORE

  4. 8. Credit Guarantee Schemes in European Economies: The Potential Impact of Different Financial Systems

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Sandra Hall; [2016]
    Keywords : Credit guarantee scheme; SME; financial system; capital market; Business and Economics; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The access to credit for micro, small and medium enterprises is argued to be suffering from market disequilibrium with information asymmetries, adverse selection and capital rationing being present. Different instruments can and have been used by policy makers to try to battle these problems. READ MORE

  5. 9. How the Swedish Market for Wild Caught Fish is Shaped by Voluntary Sustainability Standards

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

    Author : Christoffer Pettersson; Alexis Piippo; [2015-07-08]
    Keywords : Voluntary sustainability standards; market practice; market-based instruments; governmentality; wild caught fish;

    Abstract : Abstract This article deals with how the global northern market for wild caught fish is shaped by voluntary sustainability standards (VSS). Specifically, it investigates how different market norms introduced by both mainstream- and niche market VSS affect what market actors do in practice. READ MORE

  6. 10. Towards a Circular Economy in Sweden - Barriers for new business models and the need for policy intervention

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutet

    Author : Caroline Westblom; [2015]
    Keywords : transition; governance; public policy; business models; Circular economy; Sweden; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In order to halt current resource depletion and minimise environmental destruction, we need to reduce our dependency on virgin raw materials. There is a growing political consensus in the EU that we have to move away from our current linear economic system to one that is based on closing material loops, a circular economy. READ MORE