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Vog: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Health Costs of Particulates and SO2
De Paula, Áureo; Halliday, Timothy J.; Lynham, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Kilauea volcano is the largest stationary source of SO2 pollution in the United States of America. Moreover, the SO2 … pollution variation to estimate the impact of particulate matter and SO2 on emergency room admissions and costs in the state of … evidence that particulate pollution increases pulmonary-related hospitalization. Specifically, a one standard deviation …
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Sources of Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries
Broner, Fernando A; Bustos, Paula; Carvalho, Vasco M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
the country level with data on pollution intensity at the industry level to show that countries with laxer environmental …. We propose an instrument for environmental regulation based on meteorological determinants of pollution dispersion … identified by the atmospheric pollution literature. We find that the effect of environmental regulation on the pattern of trade …
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Does Supporting Passenger Railways Reduce Road Traffic Externalities?
Lalive, Rafael; Luechinger, Simon; Schmutzler, Armin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
reduce the number of severe road traffic accidents, carbon monoxide, nitrogen monoxide, nitrogen dioxide pollution and infant … mortality. Placebo regressions with sulfur dioxide and ozone yield no effect. Service frequency growth between 1994 and 2004 …
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Intergenerational inequality aversion, growth and the role of damages: Occam’s rule for the global carbon tax
Rezai, Armon; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We use the Euler equation to put forward a back-on-the-envelope rule for the global carbon tax based on a two-box carbon cycle with temperature lag, and a constant elasticity of marginal damages with respect to GDP. This tax falls with time impatience and intergenerational inequality aversion...
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Abandoning Fossil Fuel: How Fast And How Much?
Rezai, Armon; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Climate change must deal with two market failures, global warming and learning by doing in renewable use. The social optimum requires an aggressive renewables subsidy in the near term and a gradually rising carbon tax which falls in long run. As a result, more renewables are used relative to...
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Household Willingness to Pay for Organic Products
Griffith, Rachel; Nesheim, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
, health concerns coming second, and environmental concerns lagging far behind. We also show how these methods can be used for …
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A Second Look at the Pesticides Initiative Program: Evidence from Senegal
Cadot, Olivier; Jaud, Mélise - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper investigates whether the Pesticides Initiative Program has significantly affected the export performance of Senegal's horticulture industry. We apply two main microeconometric techniques, difference-in-difference and matching difference-in-differences to identify the effect of the...
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Services offshoring and wages: Evidence from micro data
Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper investigates the effects of services offshoring on wages using individual-level data combined with industry information on offshoring for the United Kingdom. Our results show that services offshoring affects the real wage of low- and medium-skilled individuals negatively. By contrast,...
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Impact Evaluation of Trade Interventions: Paving the Way
Cadot, Olivier; Fernandes, Ana; Gourdon, Julien; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
The focus of trade policy has shifted in recent years from economy-wide reductions in tariffs and trade restrictions towards targeted interventions to facilitate trade and promote exports. Most of these latter interventions are based on the new mantra of "aid-for-trade" rather than on hard...
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Large powerful shareholders and cash holding
Anderson, Ronald W.; Hamadi, Malika - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We study the relationship between liquid asset holding and the pattern of share ownership and control structures within the firm. We explore these issues using a data set of Belgian firms that is particularly well suited to studying the institutions of control oriented finance. The data include...
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