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Cotton Textiles and the Great Divergence: Lancashire, India and Shifting Competitive Advantage, 1600-1850

Broadberry, Stephen N; Gupta, Bishnupriya - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

The growth of cotton textile imports into Britain from India opened up new opportunities for import substitution as the new cloths, patterns and designs became increasingly fashionable. However, high silver wages in Britain as a result of high productivity in other tradable goods and services,...

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What Should we Expect from Innovation? A Model-Based Assessment of the Environmental and Mitigation Cost Implications of Climate-Related R&D

Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Duval, Romain; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper addresses two basic issues related to technological innovation and climate stabilisation objectives: i) Can innovation policies be effective in stabilising greenhouse gas concentrations? ii) To what extent can innovation policies complement carbon pricing (taxes or permit trading) and...

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Trade, Strategic Innovation and Strategic Environmental Policy - a General Analysis

Ulph, Alistair Mitchell; Ulph, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

There has been much debate recently about the nature of environmental policy that will be set by governments concerned about the competitive advantage their industries might obtain in a world of fierce trade competition. Some claim governments will set environmental policies that are too lax,...

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Are the Costs of Cleaning Up Eastern Europe Exaggerated? Economic Reform and the Environment

Hughes, Gordon - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

Widespread concern has been expressed that the costs of reducing environmental pollution in Eastern Europe will divert resources that would otherwise be available for industrial modernization. In fact, apart from a number of severely damaged areas, the general level of exposure to major...

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Centralization and Accountability: Theory and Evidence from the Clean Air Act

Boffa, Federico; Piolatto, Amedeo; Ponzetto, Giacomo AM - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper studies fiscal federalism when regions differ in voters’ ability to monitor public officials. We develop a model of political agency in which rent-seeking politicians provide public goods to win support from heterogeneously informed voters. In equilibrium, voter information...

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Environmental Regulation and the Location of Polluting Industries

Rauscher, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

regulation and to unacceptable standards of environmental quality? The paper attempts to answer this question in a non …

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On Income Inequality and Green Preferences

Marsiliani, Laura; Renström, Thomas I - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We derive conditions of individual preferences and technology that give rise to a negative correlation between income inequality and environmental protection. We present a class of models (which captures a static model as well as an overlapping-generations model) in which individuals differ in...

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Trade Law and Environmental Issues in Central and East European Countries

Rauscher, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

International trade and environmental regulation are interdependent. Central and East European Countries (CEECs) are … experience with existing international agreements. The major questions are: (i) how the capture of environmental regulation by … harmful tax competition in the field of environmental regulation; and (v) how international disputes can be resolved. …

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How Elections Matter: Theory and Evidence from Environmental Policy

List, John; Sturm, Daniel M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

In this Paper we explore to what extent secondary policy issues are influenced by electoral incentives. We develop a political agency model in which a politician decides on both a frontline policy issue, such as the level of public spending, and a secondary policy issue, such as environmental...

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Inequality, Environmental Protection and Growth

Marsiliani, Laura; Renström, Thomas I - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

We analyse how, in representative democracies, income distribution influences the stringency of environmental policy and economic growth. Individuals (who differ in abilities) live for two periods, working when young and owning capital when old. Externalities are caused by a polluting factor....

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