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The Kindergarten Rule of Sustainable Growth
Brock, William A. - 2003
The relationship between economic growth and the environment is not well understood: we have only limited understanding of the basic science involved and very limited data. Because of these difficulties it is especially important to develop a series of relatively simple theoretical models that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469101
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Trade and Environment Beyond Singapore
Whalley, John - 1996
This paper discusses the likely evolution of the trade and environment issue in the World Trade Organization after the upcoming ministerial meeting in Singapore this December. It makes a number of points. Progress within the GATT/WTO on this issue looks likely to be slow and painfully...
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Sustainable Growth and the Green Golden Rule
Beltratti, Andrea - 1993
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474520
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Tax and Subsidy Combinations for the Control of Car Pollution
Fullerton, Don - 2000
Despite technological advances, an individual car's emissions still cannot be measured reliably enough to impose a Pigovian tax. This paper explores alternative market incentives that could be used instead. We solve for second-best combinations of uniform taxes on gasoline, engine size, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470976
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Controlling Stocks and Flows to Promote Quality : The Environment, With Applications to Physical and Human Capital
Keohane, Nathaniel O. - 2000
Our analysis melds two traditional approaches to promoting quality. The first is restoring the stock of quality. The second is curbing its flow of deterioration. Although both approaches are widely used in real world settings, analytic models have tended to focus on one strategy or the other. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471023
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The Environmental Regime in Developing Countries
Jha, Raghbendra - 1999
This paper discusses the environmental externalities that are commonly found in the developing world (the environmental regime) along with the policy responses, if any, commonly used to deal with these. Included are the effects of industrial emissions, air and water quality impacts of untreated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471479
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The Effects of Environmental Policy on the Performance of Environmental RIVs
Katsoulacos, Yannis - 1999
pollution are low. In this case RJVs fully share information and internalize the associated externality. However when the level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471483
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Environmental Liabilities, Creditors, and Corporate Pollution : Evidence from the Apex Oil Ruling
Chen, Jianqiang; Hsieh, Pei-Fang; Hsu, Po-Hsuan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
, and reduced corporate pollution among firms that (a) release the specific chemicals covered by Apex and (b) are close to … suggest that creditors rapidly responded to Apex and successfully induced firms to reduce pollution …
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What's Missing in Environmental (Self-)Monitoring : Evidence from Strategic Shutdowns of Pollution Monitors
Mu, Yingfei; Rubin, Edward; Zou, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
builds a framework to detect whether local governments skip air pollution monitoring when they expect air quality to … deteriorate. We infer this expectation from air quality alerts - public advisories based on local governments' own pollution … individual pollution monitor in Jersey City, NJ, suspected of a deliberate shutdown during the 2013 "Bridgegate" traffic jam …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510614
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North-South Displacement Effects of Environmental Regulation : The Case of Battery Recycling
Tanaka, Shinsuke; Teshima, Kensuke; Verhoogen, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
those plants, relative to areas slightly farther away. The case provides a salient example of a pollution-haven effect …
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