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The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of certain technologies if complementary forms of organization are adopted. This issue may be of even greater importance for the case of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement...
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pollution control by inducing appropriate technological innovations to reduce toxic emissions. The emission-reducing innovations … competition, Bertrand and Cournot oligopoly) international competition forces the national government to subsidize innovation. The …
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We use a North-South model with property right differences and resource dynamics to study the effects of trade on resource use and welfare. Autarky is likely to Pareto-dominate free trade in the long run when the environment is quite fragile, and the result is reversed when the environment is...
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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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reduce the number of severe road traffic accidents, carbon monoxide, nitrogen monoxide, nitrogen dioxide pollution and infant …
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The current Paper addresses the relationship between trade and endogenous pollution levels. The main focus is quite … different from the previous literature. The mechanism linking pollution and trade is that trade provides the home government … that sense, the existence of trade helps reduce domestic pollution compared to what would prevail in a situation of autarky …
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The ‘pollution haven’ hypothesis refers to the possibility that multinational firms, particularly those engaged in … the effect at the firm level. In addition, the environmental standards of the host countries and pollution intensities of … 24 transition economies. With these improvements, we find some support for the ‘pollution haven’ hypothesis, but the …
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. We investigate whether the size of pollution abatement costs in US industry influences the pattern of international trade … effect of a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on pollution in Mexico. …
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This Paper analyses the effects of ownership structure on corporate environmental performance and examines the link from financial performance to environmental performance in a transition economy. In particular, it analyses these ownership effects and this performance link using an unbalanced...
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water quality. Pollution may rise with growth, because an increased scale of economic activity means more emissions, ceteris … pollution there is no evidence at all that a turning point has yet been reached. The paper goes on to discuss the economic …
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