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Environmental economics

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Economics is how we organise scare resources in the most effective way, in a limited world. Environmental economics is economics applied to environmental issues

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Price

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Monetary value or quantity, a customer has to give up to get the product

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Cost

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What you have to give up for factory inputs in a production process

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Perfect competition

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Free entry and exit - Homogeneity - Many buyers and sellers - No transaction cost - Perfect information - Property rights - Rationality

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Movement

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On the same curve, higher price = higher quantity

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Shift

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For the same price level, the quantity will be higher or lower

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Demand

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The negative link between quantity demanded and price : when P increases, Q decreases

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Income effect

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Decrease of income = increase of D for inferior goods + decrease of D for normal goods

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Substitution effect

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Price increase of good A = consumption increase of good B

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Things influencing the consumption of the same good

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Price expectation - Price of related goods (substutes and complements) - Size and structure of the population - Taste

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Equilibrium

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When quantity supplied matches the quantity demanded (E : P when Qs = Qd = Q)

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Surplus (excess supply)

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A situation in which quantity supplied is greater than quantity demanded : price decrease

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Shortage (excess demand)

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A situation in which quantity demanded is greater than quantity supplied : price increase

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Market failure

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Inability of the market to allocate resources efficiently caused by :
- Market power from few players
- Imperfect info
- Existence of transaction costs
- Existence of external costs or benefits

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Externality

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Cost or benefit of a good or service that is uncompensated and that will impact on a third party due to external cost or benefit. It can be negative (Private costs > social costs = external costs > 0) or positive (Social benefits > private benefits = external benefits > 0)

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Welfare economics

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The study of how the allocation of resources affects economic well-being :
- Maximum price a buyer is willing to pay to get 1 unit of the good. The more he will buy the good, the less he is willing to pay for the extra unit.
- Minimum price a seller agrees to produce a product

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Consumer surplus

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The difference between the maximum price a consumer is ready to pay for a good or service and the actual price he pays

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Producer surplus

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The difference between the minimum price a firm is ready to produce a good or service and the actual price it takes

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Market surplus

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Consumer surplus + producer surplus : the sum up of all the individual surplus

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Dead weight loss

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Consumer surplus + producer surplus : the sum up of all the individual surplus

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Sink function

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The ability of the natural environment to absorb wastes and pollution (self-sustained system). We are overwhelming it

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Market-based instruments to get the optimum price

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Rely on economic forces to achieve environmental protection.

Act on price set up :
- Tax / subsidies
- Property rights

Act on quantity control = command-and-control of regulation :
- Regulations
- Standards

Act on both :
- Pollution tradable permits

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Elasticity

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How sensitive one variable would be to another variable

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Determinants of Price Elasticity of Supply

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  • Inputs availability
  • Ease of storing
  • Productive capacity
  • Size of the sector, firm or market
  • Time adjustment
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Perfectly inelastic PES (PED)
PES (PED) = 0 No response to change in price in quantity supplied
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Inelastic PES (PED)
0 < PES (PED) < 1 % change in price > % change in quantity
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Unitary elastic PES (PED)
PES (PED) = 1 % change in price = % change in quantity
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Elastic PES (PED)
PES (PED) > 1 % change in price < % change in quantity
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Perfectly elastic PES (PED)
PES (PED) = infinity
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Price elasticity of supply (demand)
How the Q supplied (demanded) is impacted by a change in price. It takes into account the total revenue (expense) TR (TE) = P x Qs (Qd)
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Determinants of Price Elasticity of Demand
- Adjustment time - Degree of necessity - Share of income dedicated - Scope of the market - Substitutability - Type of good (inferior or normal)
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Market analysis
- How an event has impact the S, D or both - The direction of the change (- Evolution of the price) - How it will affect the equilibrium
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Income elasticity of demand (IED)
How the Q demanded is impacted by a change in income
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IED inferior goods
IED < 0 Subjective, when R increases, D decreases
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IED necessity goods
0 < IED < 1
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IED luxury goods
IED > 1
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Giffen goods
When P increases, D increases for inferior goods
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Veblen effect
When P increases, D increases for luxury goods
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Prebish-Singer effect
In the long run, P of primary goods decreases in proportion to P of manufactured goods
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Cross-price elasticity of demand
In the long run, P of primary goods decreases in proportion to P of manufactured goods
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CPED subsitutes
CPED > 0 When Pb increases, Da increases
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CPED complements
CPED < 0 When Pb increases, Da decreases
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CPED no relationship
CPED < 0 When Pb increases, Da decreases
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CPED perfectly competitive
CPED = infinity
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Opportunity cost
Whatever must be given up to obtain something
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Tax
Market-based instrument to control pollution : - Indirect : on consumption - Direct : on revenue/wealth
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Tax avoidance
Use of legal rules to minimise the tax
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Tax evasion
Use of illegal actions to minimise the tax
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Tax incidence
The way the burden of a tax is shared between D and S. The inelastic one handles the most
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Pigouvian Tax
Tax imposed on an activity that creates a negative externality. It follows the 'pollutive pays principle' and works upstream : we tax at the beginning the total damage that can be at the end of the product value chain
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Welfare loss
The excess of social costs over social benefits for a given output. A situation where MSB is ≠ to MSC and society does not achieve maximum utility.
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Why we face externalities in a competitive market?
Because the private costs or benefits don't reflect the social costs or benefits of a transaction
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Coase Theorem
Private economic agents set property rights, make them tradable and remove transaction costs. They can solve the externalities problem on their own and reach the optimum equilibrium
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Coase Bargaining
When people solve an externality through private negotiation rather than government regulation (free-market environmentalism). For that to work, you ned a complete system of property rights, tradable.
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Transaction costs
Administrative and legal elements we have to carry to make a transaction happen
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Limits of Coasian theorem
- (Too) high transaction costs - Bargaining unfeasibility due to speculation - Large number of individual players : holdout effect, free rider problem, public goods
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Holdout effect
If in a negotiation, you need to get an agreement from all players without distinction, one player can hold out all the negotiation
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Free rider problem
Ability of someone to benefit from trade without paying the cost for that
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Public goods
Non-rival (no competition to get the good) and non-excludable (you can't prevent someone from using it)
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Common goods
Non-excludable but rival (like fishing)
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Private goods
Rival and excludable (we have private benefits and costs from them)
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Pollution Haven Effect
Higher pollution effect because of weaker laws and less demand of environmental laws protection as people are poor
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Environmental justice
Fair treatent for people regardless of race, colour, origin, income, etc. when it comes to environmental law
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Rebound effect
The tendency in which by improving an input, you encourage the use of related outputs
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Jevon's Paradox
The technologicial improvement driven by P increase, leads to effciency gains of an input, cost decrease and rise of consumption
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Cap-and-Trade System
An Emission Trade System (ETS) for managing pollution in which permits on a given amount of pollution emission are allocated, used and/or traded by firms (application of Coase Theorem)
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Efficiency
Balancing external costs and external benefits
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Pigouvian tax vs. Cap-and-Trade
Pigouvian tax sets a price to bring within economical agents' costs the environmental external costs (= you can pollute as long as long as you pay) Cap-and-Trade caps total pollution quantity with permits. Firms can choose to use, sell or purchase the permits. P is determined by S & D
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Non-market based instruments
Regulations called "command-and-control" instruments : standards + technology-based regulations. They don't internalise externality
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Advantages of non-market based instruments
- Simple - Possibility to specify the outcome targeted - Lower distributional issues
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Disadvantage of non market-based instruments
- Not flexible - Less cost effective

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