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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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, 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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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 …
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those plants, relative to areas slightly farther away. The case provides a salient example of a pollution-haven effect …
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Reducing global poverty and addressing climate change and other environmental crises are among the most important challenges facing humanity today. This review article discusses one way in which these problems are intertwined: economic development affects the environment. I synthesize recent...
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Considerable progress has been made in our understanding of the relationship between international trade and the environment since Gene Grossman and Alan Krueger published their now seminal working paper examining the potential environmental effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement in...
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A robust body of evidence shows that air pollution exposure is detrimental to health outcomes, often measured as deaths …, performance, and skills. This article reviews the economic research investigating the causal effects of pollution on "non … pollution can be more challenging to observe than formal health care encounters but may be more pervasive if they affect …
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