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provided the federal government with limited authority to "control" air pollution, but signaled impending federal regulation …
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policy uncertainty would increase expected discounted generator profits by $0.930 billion, but increase pollution by $0 …
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, 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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pollution are low. In this case RJVs fully share information and internalize the associated externality. However when the level …
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For political, jurisdictional and technical reasons, environmental regulation of industrial pollution is often … incomplete: regulations apply to only a subset of facilities contributing to a pollution problem. Policymakers are increasingly …. In a straightforward application of the theory of the second best, I show that incomplete regulation can welfare dominate …
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market. Air pollution fell substantially during 1999, the year in which both electricity restructuring and new environmental … pollution reductions. The remaining third can be attributed to firms exercising market power …
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for pollution externalities. If overall demand for electricity is more elastic than our baseline (0.1), renewable energy …
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Studies of the firm's demand for factor inputs often assume a constant rate of utilization of the inputs and ignore the fact that the firm can simultaneously choose the level and the rate of utilization of its inputs. In particular, the literature on dynamic factor demand models has, until...
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Between 1990 and 2008, air pollution emissions from U.S. manufacturing fell by 60 percent despite a substantial … suggest that the implicit pollution tax that manufacturers face doubled between 1990 and 2008. These changes in environmental …
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In 2019, production on federal lands comprised 40% of domestic coal, 22% of domestic oil, and 12% of domestic natural gas production. Currently, the federal fossil fuel leasing program does not consider the climate costs of burning federal fossil fuels. One way to do so is through a climate...
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