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Behavioral and distributional effects of environmental policy
Carraro, Carlo (contributor);  … - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001481180
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The design and implementation of US climate policy
Fullerton, Don (contributor);  … - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013480729
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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
pollution. This article describes the recent trends in air and water quality, with a focus on the five years since China … declared a "war on pollution" in 2014. It summarizes the emerging literature that has taken advantage of accompanying … pollution, and understand their social, economic, and health consequences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482683
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Accelerating energy innovation : insights from multiple sectors
Henderson, Rebecca (ed.); Newell, Richard G. (contributor) - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009237697
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474270
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Firm-Level Financial Resources and Environmental Spills
Cohn, Jonathan - 2018
Using novel US environmental spill data, we document a robust negative relationship between the number of spills a firm experiences in a given year and its contemporaneous and lagged (but not future) cash flow. In addition, studying two natural experiments, we find an increase (decrease) in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453200
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Environment, Health, and Human Capital
Zivin, Joshua Graff - 2013
between the environment and individual well-being. First, in explicitly recognizing how optimizing behavior, particularly in … the form of residential sorting, can lead to non-random assignment of pollution, economists have employed a wide range of … quasi-experimental techniques to develop causal estimates of the effect of pollution. Second, economic research has placed a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459726
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The Problem of the Commons : Still Unsettled After 100 Years
Stavins, Robert N. - 2010
The problem of the commons is more important to our lives and thus more central to economics than a century ago when Katharine Coman led off the first issue of the American Economic Review. As the U.S. and other economies have grown, the carrying-capacity of the planet -- in regard to natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462253
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What Are the Costs of Meeting Distributional Objectives for Climate Policy?
Parry, Ian W.H. - 2010
This paper develops an analytical model to quantify the costs and distributional effects of various fiscal options for allocating the (large) rents created under prospective cap-and-trade programs to reduce domestic, energy-related CO2 emissions. The trade-off between cost effectiveness and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462171
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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