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We study a growth model with an environmental asset which is a source of utility and an input to consumption and production. The stock of this asset follows its own ecological dynamics, which are affected by economic activity. We study the implications of an approach to ranking sequences of...
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A decline in the net entry rate of employer firms in the United States in the last decades, a decline in business dynamism, may explain the observed productivity slowdown. We consider the role of nonemployers, businesses without paid employees, in business dynamism and aggregate productivity....
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between income level and pollution). The new specification enables us to draw conclusions from fixed effects estimation. In …
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relationship has been called the out a simple and straight-forward static model of the microfoundations of the pollution …
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This paper examines unintended effects of air quality regulation on decisions of major polluters, using plant data for 1963 to 1992. A key regulatory tool since 1978 is the annual designation of county air quality attainment status, where non-attainment status triggers specific equipment...
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industrialization. Will pollution continue to increase without bound as more and more countries pass through the development phase or …-regulating' in the sense that as income increases, pollution controls also increase. However, this intuition is somewhat misleading … rate of development of the economy through market interactions and the extent of pollution regulation through collective …
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: concentrations of urban air pollution; measures of the state of the oxygen regime in river basins; concentrations of fecal …
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Over the past decade, concern over potential global warming has focused attention on the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and there is an active debate concerning the desirability of reducing emissions. At the heart of this debate is the future path of both greenhouse gas...
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added by Mexico's maquiladora sector. We investigate whether the size of pollution abatement costs in the U.S. industry … equilibrium model to study the likely compositional effect of a NAFTA on pollution in Mexico …
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