This paper develops a simple partial equilibrium model with twocountries (North and South) to fathom the effects of firms’ relocation in a con-text of international and imperfect competition. Two different production tech-nologies are considered, a clean technology and a dirty one, and the effects ofrelocation according to the kind of technology used by the relocated firms aredetermined. Two heterogeneous firms in the North and only one ...

Carbon taxes are commonly seen as a rational policy response to climate change, but little is known about their performance from an ex-post perspective. This paper analyzes the emissions and cost impacts of the UK CPS, a carbon tax levied on all fossil-fired power plants. To overcome the problem of a missing control group, we propose a novel approach for policy evaluation which leverages economic theory and machine learning techniques for ...

This paper reports on the link between a well-defined measure of response burden and response rates among all (uncommitted) and pre-recruited respondents. We show within the limits of our sample of 68 survey waves (including pre-tests; resulting from 35 studies) that the response burden impact is mediated by the level of the commitment of the respondents and the presence of a monetary incentive. This is the first time that a research group ...

The train rescheduling problem is quite a popular topic in the railway research community. Many approaches are available to reschedule traffic in a network partition, but very few works address the coordination of these partitions. In railway systems with very dense traffic, e.g. the Swiss one, it is not always possible to partition the network such that local rescheduling algorithms can work completely independently one from another. ...