Essays about: "second-best policy"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words second-best policy.
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1. Multi-Label Text Classification with Transfer Learning for Policy Documents : The Case of the Sustainable Development Goals
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : We created and analyzed a text classification dataset from freely-available web documents from the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals. We then used it to train and compare different multi-label text classifiers with the aim of exploring the alternatives for methods that facilitate the search of information of this type of documents. READ MORE
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2. Cooperative bargaining of Australian coal plants under a regulatory threat
University essay from SLU/Dept. of EconomicsAbstract : The energy market in Australia and particularly the state of Victoria, finds itself in a precarious, transitional state. Researchers have concluded that barriers to orderly exit are present for highly-polluting and aged incumbent brown coal generation, further preventing renewable generation from entering the market (Riesz & Noone, 2013; AEMC, 2015a; Frontier Economics, 2015). READ MORE
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3. Reducing emissions in the Mexican power sector : Economic and political feasibility analysis of policy mechanisms
University essay from KTH/Energi och klimatstudier, ECSAbstract : 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
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4. Misreporting time preferences in the cooperative management of a common fish pool
University essay from SLU/Dept. of EconomicsAbstract : Many fish stocks have been exhausted or are currently overexploited. Cooperative management of common fish pools may be necessary to sustain stock levels and future harvests. READ MORE
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5. A model of trade agreements and cross-border externalities
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : This thesis examines a second-best trade agreement between the governments of two countries that tries to remedy the distortions arising from non-coordinated environmental policy. In a reciprocal-markets model with bidirectional cross-border pollution, it is found that if the cross-border pollution is sufficiently strong, a second-best trade agreement requires that both governments impose import tariffs on the goods whose production gives rise to pollution. READ MORE
