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The organization of firms across countries

Bloom, Nicholas - 2009

We argue that social capital as proxied by regional trust and the Rule of Law can improve aggregate productivity through facilitating greater firm decentralization. We collect original data on the decentralization of investment, hiring, production and sales decisions from Corporate Head Quarters...

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Firms, Contracts, and Trade Structure

Antràs, Pol - 2003

Roughly one-third of world trade is intrafirm trade. This paper starts by unveiling two systematic patterns in the volume of intrafirm trade. In a panel of industries, the share of intrafirm imports in total U.S. imports is significantly higher, the higher the capital intensity of the exporting...

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Tackling climate change through livestock : a global assessment of emissions and mitigation opportunities

Gerber, Pierre J.; Steinfeld, Henning; Henderson, Benjamin - 2013

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The Environmental Kuznets Curve : Exploring A Fresh Specification

Bradford, David F. - 2000

between income level and pollution). The new specification enables us to draw conclusions from fixed effects estimation. In …

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Is Free Trade Good for the Environment?

Antweiler, Werner - 1998

This paper sets out a theory of how openness to international goods markets affects pollution concentrations. We … develop a theoretical model to divide trade's impact on pollution into scale, technique, and composition effects and then … examine this theory using data on sulfur dioxide concentrations when it alters the composition, and hence the pollution …

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Economic Growth and the Environment

Grossman, Gene M. - 1994

: concentrations of urban air pollution; measures of the state of the oxygen regime in river basins; concentrations of fecal …

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Stoking the Fires? Co2 Emissions and Economic Growth

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 1992

Over the past decade, concern over potential global warming has focused attention on the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and there is an active debate concerning the desirability of reducing emissions. At the heart of this debate is the future path of both greenhouse gas...

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Do Pollution Markets Harm Low Income and Minority Communities? Ranking Emissions Distributions Generated by California's RECLAIM Program

Mansur, Erin T. - 2019

We compare the spatial distribution of emissions from Southern California's pollution-trading program with that of a …

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Output and Attribute-Based Carbon Regulation Under Uncertainty

Kellogg, Ryan - 2019

Output-based carbon regulations--such as fuel economy standards and the rate-based standards in the Clean Power Plan--create well-known incentives to inefficiently increase output. Similar distortions are created by attribute-based regulations. This paper demonstrates that, despite these...

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