Most insights of environmental economics are in line with the standard neoclassical economic model of rational behaviour, formulated in terms of maximization of utility in general, or of profits in particular. The standard theory of environmental policy is a case in point. However, the maximization hypothesis and its methodological foundation have been criticized on many grounds related to a la...

Policymakers have often backed alternative energy technologies, e.g., nuclear power, due to their relatively low operating costs and emissions. However, they have also been quick to respond to public perceptions about the safety of such plants by suspending construction or even decommissioning existing facilities. We address public concerns about physical plant risks along with stochastic marke...

Econometric modelling is at the core of economic policy analysis. Such models have long been used to forecast the effects of various national economic policy measures or, at least, to inform policy analysts about likely trends such as inflation or employment rates in the absence of policy interventions. Econometric analysis has long been closely associated with equilibrium economic theory. The ...

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ABSTARCT: The decision making strategy adopted by the fault diagnosis system should consider the benefit of acquiring information versus introducing measurement error into system knowledge. Further, it is expected to revise its beliefs by judging the truth of informationally valuable hypotheses. It should avoid rejecting important hypotheses simply on the basis of the probability of truth and e...

Alternative development is closely associated with reductions in drug crop cultivation at the local level. However, currently these local successes cannot be directly attributed to alternative development interventions because the motivations and circumstances that determine household drug crop cultivation remain largely unexplored. Research has tended to focus on aggregate trends in drug crop ...

This paper investigates the world economic implications of climate change policy strategies, especially the evaluation of impacts by an implementation of Clean Development Mechanisms, Joint Implementation and Emissions trading with a world integrated assessment model. Of special interest in this context are the welfare spill over and competitiveness effects that result from diverse climate poli...