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Lo, Andrew W. (ed.) - 1996

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Ambulance Utilization in New York City after the Implementation of the Affordable Care Act

Courtemanche, Charles - 2018

dispatches for more severe injuries, dispatches for minor injuries rose sharply after the implementation of the ACA. By contrast …

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Fifty Ways to Leave a Child Behind : Idiosyncrasies and Discrepancies in States' Implementation of NCLB

Davidson, Elizabeth - 2013

Yearly Progress. While the federal government's legislation provided a framework for NCLB implementation, it also gave states …% across states. In this paper, we explore how states' NCLB implementation decisions affected their schools' failure rates … characteristics like enrollment size, grade span, and ethnic diversity. Subtle differences in policy implementation led to dramatic …

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The Trillion Dollar Conundrum : Complementarities and Health Information Technology

Dranove, David - 2012

We examine the relationship between the adoption of EMR and hospital operating costs. We first identify a puzzle that has been seen in prior studies: Adoption of EMR is associated with a slight cost increase. We draw on the literature on IT and productivity to demonstrate that the average effect...

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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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Environmental Policy and Firm Behavior : Abatement Investment and Location Decisions Under Uncertainty and Irreversibility

Xepapadeas, Anastasios - 1999

This paper explores abatement investment and location responses to environmental policy, which takes the form of emission taxes or tradeable emission permits and subsidies against the costs of abatement investment, under uncertainty and irreversibility. Uncertainty is associated with output...

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Environmental Liabilities, Creditors, and Corporate Pollution : Evidence from the Apex Oil Ruling

Chen, Jianqiang; Hsieh, Pei-Fang; Hsu, Po-Hsuan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We evaluate the impact of the 2008 Apex Oil court decision that made the creditors of some corporations financially liable for the environmental damages caused by specific pollutants. Apex reduced the circumstances under which environmental liabilities were dischargeable in Chapter 11, which...

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Measuring Firm Environmental Performance to Inform Asset Management and Standardized Disclosure

Muller, Nicholas Z. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Investing according to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria is gaining momentum. Most environmental performance indices focus only on the tonnage of carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions. This paper proposes an index covering eight pollutants expressed in monetary damage. Inclusion of...

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Going Green in China : Firms’ Responses to Stricter Environmental Regulations

Fan, Haichao - 2019

This paper examines the effect of stringent environmental regulations on firms' environmental practices, economic performance, and environmental innovation. Reducing COD levels by 10% relative to 2005 levels is an aim of the Chinese 11th Five-Year Plan. Using a difference-in-differences...

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Global Pricing of Carbon-Transition Risk

Bolton, Patrick; Kacperczyk, Marcin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Companies are exposed to carbon-transition risk as the global economy transitions away from fossil fuels to renewable energy. We estimate the market-based premium associated with this transition risk at the firm level in a cross-section of over 14,400 firms in 77 countries. We find a widespread...

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