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China's War on Pollution : Evidence from the First Five Years
Greenstone, Michael; He, Guojun; Li, Shanjun; Zou, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The decade from 2010 to 2019 marked a significant turning point in China's history of environmental regulation and …
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The Impact of OSHA and EPA Regulation on Productivity
Gray, Wayne B. - 1984
This paper presents estimates of the impact of OSHA and EPA regulation on productivity. Production information for 1450 … manufacturing industries from 1958 to 1980 is merged with measures of regulation, including both information on compliance … expenditures by industry and enforcement efforts by OSHA and EPA. Industries that faced higher regulation during the 1970s had …
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Designing Fuel-Economy Standards in Light of Electric Vehicles
Gillingham, Kenneth - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Electric vehicles are declining in cost so rapidly that they may claim a large share of the vehicle market by 2030. This paper examines a set of practical regulatory design considerations for fuel-economy standards or greenhouse gas standards in the context of highly uncertain electric vehicle...
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Truth-telling by Third-party Auditors and the Response of Polluting Firms : Experimental Evidence from India
Duflo, Esther - 2013
results suggest reformed incentives for third-party auditors can improve their reporting and make regulation more effective …
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Pollution prevention and abatement handbook, 1998 : toward cleaner production
1999
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Tajikistan
World Bank Group - 2014
The Country Opinion Survey in Tajikistan assists the World Bank Group (WBG) in gaining a better understanding of how stakeholders in Tajikistan perceive the WBG. It provides the WBG with systematic feedback from national and local governments, multilateral/bilateral agencies, media, academia,...
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The Effects of Environmental Policy on the Performance of Environmental RIVs
Katsoulacos, Yannis - 1999
Much of the potential impact of environmental policy is though to come from the incentives it gives firms to develop and introduce new environmental products and processes. Almost all the literature on this issue has focused on the impact of environmental policy on the amount environmental R&D...
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Green Public Procurement : An Overview of Green Reforms in Country Procurement Systems
World Bank Group - 2021
This report provides an overview of international experience in the implementation of Green Public Procurement (GPP). It focuses on the institutional framework that is needed to support the mainstreaming of GPP practices across government. The intention is to equip practitioners with a broad...
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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
Regulators often rely on self-reported data to determine compliance. Tolerance for missingness in self-monitoring data may create incentives for local agents to strategically decide when (not) to monitor regulated activities. This paper builds a framework to detect whether local governments skip...
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Climate Change Uncertainty Spillover in the Macroeconomy
Barnett, Michael; Brock, William A.; Hansen, Lars Peter - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The design and conduct of climate change policy necessarily confronts uncertainty along multiple fronts. We explore the consequences of ambiguity over various sources and configurations of models that impact how economic opportunities could be damaged in the future. We appeal to decision theory...
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