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Approximately $30 billion (2000$) has been spent on Superfund clean-ups of hazardous waste sites, and remediation efforts are incomplete at roughly half of the 1,500 Superfund sites. This study estimates the effect of Superfund clean-ups on local housing price appreciation. We compare housing...
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This paper examines the extent to which state taxes have inhibited interstate transport of" hazardous waste for disposal in the United States. It uses panel data from the Toxics Release" Inventory (TRI) and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) on interstate" shipments of waste, and...
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We are the first to examine the effect of Superfund cleanups on infant health rather than focusing on proximity to a site. We study singleton births to mothers residing within 5km of a Superfund site between 1989-2003 in five large states. Our "difference in differences" approach compares birth...
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We study roughly 11,000 loans from unlicensed moneylenders to over 1,000 borrowers in Singapore and provide basic …
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rather than the top down. We show an example, for Singapore, of how incomplete data can be used to obtain estimates of … estimates in Singapore and to resolve other empirical puzzles regarding Asian development …
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Singapore's experience with international capital flows over the past two decades or so has been a rather -- although … equities market, and operating on a Currency Board (CB) system (although with some differences from Singapore's CB system). The … discussion serves to identify some 'areas of vulnerability' in the Hong Kong set-up at that time. We next discuss Singapore …
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In countries, such as Singapore, that have implemented vehicle congestion policies, recent years have seen a shift …
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is to assess the money's worth and adverse selection impact of annuities in two countries Singapore and Australia that …
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), we survey information on outward investors from Hong Kong and Singapore with the aim of illuminating the implications of … investment by foreign firms in Hong Kong and Singapore often involves sub- stantial contributions from local staff and partners … of foreign-controlled Hong Kong or Singapore investors suggested that many of the investors were acting as part of an …
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upcoming ministerial meeting in Singapore this December. It makes a number of points. Progress within the GATT/WTO on this … paper also argues that despite (and beyond) Singapore, one has to go further than the GATT/WTO to see the potential …
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