Resource and Energy Economics最新文献

Delegation of environmental regulation and perceived corruption in South Africa 南非环境监管权力下放与腐败印象

IF 2.6 3区经济学

Resource and Energy Economics Pub Date : 2024-10-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2024.101462

Pedro Naso

{"title":"Delegation of environmental regulation and perceived corruption in South Africa","authors":"Pedro Naso","doi":"10.1016/j.reseneeco.2024.101462","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.reseneeco.2024.101462","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>I study the drivers of a reduction in the discretionary power of environmental inspectors and the impact that such reduction has on firms’ perceptions. I examine the transition from the Air Pollution Protection Act of 1965 to the Air Quality Act of 2005 (AQA), a change from full to partial delegation of regulation in South Africa. By constructing a principal–agent model, I propose a theoretical explanation for why a society would restrict environmental inspectors’ discretionary power. I then use my theoretical model to discuss the air quality regulation transition in South Africa. I suggest that the transition might have occurred because of increases in inspectors’ rent-seeking motivation and capacity of appropriating rents after the end of Apartheid. Using microdata, I run difference-in-differences models in a two-period panel with 191 South African firms to show that the implementation of the AQA decreases affected firms’ perceived corruption, but does not change perceptions on obtaining licences and on the functioning of courts. My work indicates that national governments in developing countries should consider the characteristics of the agents who are implementing regulation, and the system they are embedded in, when designing environmental regulation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47952,"journal":{"name":"Resource and Energy Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142434184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

The effect of professional social norms on corporate environmental compliance 职业社会规范对企业环境合规的影响

IF 2.6 3区经济学

Resource and Energy Economics Pub Date : 2024-09-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2024.101460

Dietrich Earnhart , Lana Friesen

{"title":"The effect of professional social norms on corporate environmental compliance","authors":"Dietrich Earnhart , Lana Friesen","doi":"10.1016/j.reseneeco.2024.101460","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.reseneeco.2024.101460","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While previous studies demonstrate the importance of social norms for explaining the pro-environmental behavior of individual consumers, very few studies examine the role of social norms in the context of businesses’ pro-environmental decisions. This study contributes to the rich social norm literature by exploring whether professional social norms influence the compliance decisions of regulated chemical manufacturing facilities. To this end, the empirical analysis uses data on major facilities regulated under the U.S. Clean Water Act to estimate the link from the compliance history of other major chemical manufacturing facilities operating in the same state to an individual facility’s current compliance decision. Using a fixed-effects model that includes a large set of confounding factors, we find a significant positive effect of other facilities’ compliance history: improvement in the average compliance history prompts the individual facility to increase its own performance. By controlling for other plausible channels that link facility’s compliance decisions, we interpret this relationship as reflecting descriptive professional norms. The relationship proves stronger for facilities that are either geographically or sectorally closer.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47952,"journal":{"name":"Resource and Energy Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142442788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Optimal fisheries management and the response to price changes 最佳渔业管理和对价格变化的反应

IF 2.6 3区经济学

Resource and Energy Economics Pub Date : 2024-09-19 DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2024.101461

Eric Nævdal

引用次数: 0

Learning and uncertainty in spatial resource management 空间资源管理中的学习与不确定性

IF 2.6 3区经济学

Resource and Energy Economics Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2024.101449

Kwabena Bediako , Bruno Nkuiya

{"title":"Learning and uncertainty in spatial resource management","authors":"Kwabena Bediako , Bruno Nkuiya","doi":"10.1016/j.reseneeco.2024.101449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reseneeco.2024.101449","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Natural resources such as fish, and wildlife have the ability to move across different areas within an ecosystem. Such movements are subject to random changes in environmental conditions (e.g., nutrients, temperature, oxygen). Although empirical evidence suggests that learning about such movements helps improve management, the related economic literature concentrates on scenarios in which the resource population lives in a closed area and cannot migrate. In this paper, we develop a spatial bioeconomic model to examine a renewable resource harvester’s responses to learning about fish movements. Our baseline is the scenario in which the harvester is fully informed about the distribution of fish movements. We find that introducing uncertainty and learning about fish movements critically affects extraction incentives. For instance, we show that uncertainty and learning may increase harvest in a patch and reduce harvest in another patch when the marginal harvesting cost function is constant. In the stock dependent marginal harvesting cost case, we delineate conditions under which uncertainty and learning increase harvest in all patches. We also show how harvest responses to learning change with the distribution of uncertainty.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47952,"journal":{"name":"Resource and Energy Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141607726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

International emissions trading and the distribution of capital 国际排放贸易与资本分配

IF 2.6 3区经济学

Resource and Energy Economics Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2024.101450

Yu-Bong Lai

引用次数: 0

The intrinsic value of decision rights: Field evidence from electricity contract choice automation 决策权的内在价值：电力合同选择自动化的实地证据

IF 2.9 3区经济学

Resource and Energy Economics Pub Date : 2024-04-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2024.101440

Christoph Feldhaus , Jörg Lingens , Andreas Löschel , Gerald Zunker

{"title":"The intrinsic value of decision rights: Field evidence from electricity contract choice automation","authors":"Christoph Feldhaus , Jörg Lingens , Andreas Löschel , Gerald Zunker","doi":"10.1016/j.reseneeco.2024.101440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reseneeco.2024.101440","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Previous laboratory evidence suggests that people tend to value their decision right beyond its instrumental value. We measure the intrinsic value of decision rights in the context of switching the electricity provider. We focus on customers of an online platform who can either choose a service that reminds them when they are allowed to switch their electricity contract or a service that automatically switches the contract on their behalf whenever possible. Our focus is on the intrinsic value of decision rights as a potential obstacle of this choice automation. Surprisingly, we find that customers who make use of the automation service assign significantly <em>higher</em> intrinsic value to their decision rights, compared to those who opted for the mere reminder. Hence, there appears to be a connection between having a high intrinsic value of decision rights and the level of interest in attributes of the automation service under consideration. The positive correlation suggests that the widespread positive intrinsic value of decision rights and the future adoption of similar automation services and devices do not necessarily contradict each other.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":47952,"journal":{"name":"Resource and Energy Economics","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0928765524000162/pdfft?md5=24c7000813a727694d89d25c9147f7eb&pid=1-s2.0-S0928765524000162-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140644978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Farm debt and the over-exploitation of natural capital 农业债务和自然资本的过度开发

IF 2.9 3区经济学

Resource and Energy Economics Pub Date : 2024-03-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2024.101439

Graeme Guthrie

引用次数: 0

Rent formation and distortions due to quotas in biological production processes 生物生产过程中配额造成的租金形成和扭曲

IF 2.9 3区经济学

Resource and Energy Economics Pub Date : 2024-03-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2024.101438

Atle Oglend , Frank Asche , Hans-Martin Straume

引用次数: 0

Feeling the heat? Analyzing climate change sentiment in Spain using Twitter data 感受高温？利用推特数据分析西班牙的气候变化情绪

IF 2.9 3区经济学

Resource and Energy Economics Pub Date : 2024-03-08 DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2024.101437

Maria L. Loureiro , Maria Alló

引用次数: 0

The political economy of financing climate policy — Evidence from the solar PV subsidy programs 气候政策融资的政治经济学--来自太阳能光伏补贴项目的证据

IF 2.9 3区经济学

Resource and Energy Economics Pub Date : 2024-02-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.reseneeco.2024.101436

Olivier De Groote , Axel Gautier , Frank Verboven

引用次数: 0