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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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Reducing global poverty and addressing climate change and other environmental crises are among the most important challenges facing humanity today. This review article discusses one way in which these problems are intertwined: economic development affects the environment. I synthesize recent...
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Efficient responses to climate change require accurate estimates of both aggregate damages and where and to whom they occur. While specific case studies and simulations have suggested that climate change disproportionately affects the poor, large-scale direct evidence of the magnitude and...
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production within these goods. Using Chinese official environmental data on air and water pollution, and official trade data, we … relatively cleaner, highly fragmented sectors, and (3) the pollution intensity of Chinese exports has fallen dramatically between … standard model of the pollution intensity of trade, we develop a model that explicitly introduces production fragmentation into …
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potentially refutable predictions on abatement costs, pollution levels, or emission intensities …
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, species extinction and industrial pollution were rising. Recently it has been intensified by the creation of the World Trade …
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measures of air pollution. Statistical significance is lacking for Particulate Matter, but is moderate for NO2, and high for SO …
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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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