The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) has been extensively criticized on theoretical and empirical grounds. In this article, the EKC is reformulated as the best practice technology frontier—countries’ distances from the frontier reflect the degree to which they have adopted the best practice technology in emissions abatement. The Kalman filter is used to model the state of sulfur emissions abat...

In environmental economics it is common to add non-negative constraints on abatement, or equivalently to constrain emissions by some maximum unabated level. However, in this paper it is argued that these assumptions are both physically wrong and complicating. Also, more seriously, such constraints can rule out optimal solutions. For instance, negative NOx abatement can be optimal from the socia...

Elaboration of Pd-supported catalysts for catalytic combustion is, nowadays, considered as an imperative task to reduce the emissions methane. This study provides new insight into method deposition, chemical state Pd and oxygen storage capability transition metal ions their effects on reactivity supported The catalyst with nominal composition La(Co0.8Ni0.1Fe0.1)0.85Pd0.15O3 was SiO2-modified/γ-...

The success of any international climate change agreement depends on abatement targets and the incentives for countries to participate. International emissions trading is frequently cited in the policy literature as a means to making headway on both issues. With trading, more stringent targets become less costly, and agreements can be profitable for the developing world by allowing them to capt...

This paper studies incentives to develop advanced pollution abatement technology when technology may spillover across agents and pollution abatement is a public good. We are motivated by a variety of pollution control issues where solutions require the development and implementation of new pollution abatement technologies. We show that at the Nash equilibrium of a simultaneous-move game with R&...

Public damage abatement and compensation programs may be used to alter private incentives for damage abatement and habitat provision. A model is developed that explains the economic logic behind prevalent characteristics of public wildlife damage programs. The model is supported with an examination of a broad cross-section of wildlife agency policy and law. The model can be used by wildlife man...