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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
The decade from 2010 to 2019 marked a significant turning point in China's history of environmental regulation and 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...
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Sources of Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries
Broner, Fernando - 2012
We study the determinants of comparative advantage in polluting industries. We combine data on environmental policy at the country level with data on pollution intensity at the industry level to show that countries with laxer environmental regulation have a comparative advantage in polluting...
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The SO2 Allowance Trading System and the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 : Reflections on Twenty Years of Policy Innovation
Chan, Gabriel - 2012
The introduction of the U.S. SO2 allowance-trading program to address the threat of acid rain as part of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 is a landmark event in the history of environmental regulation. The program was a great success by almost all measures. This paper, which draws upon a...
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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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Globalization and the Environment
Copeland, Brian Richard; Shapiro, Joseph S.; Taylor, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
How should international economic policy address climate change? Does trade cause deforestation and endangered species depletion? How does globalization affect air and water pollution? Do trade and investment create a race to the bottom in environmental policy? How important are environmental...
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Environmentally-Inclined Politicians and Local Environmental Performance : Evidence from Publicly Listed Firms in China
Fang, Hanming; Ren, Honglin; Song, Danwen; Xu, Nianhang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
inferior economic performance and their promotion likelihood is negatively related to local emission levels. The findings …
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Effects of Air Quality Regulation on in Polluting Industries
Becker, Randy - 1997
This paper examines unintended effects of air quality regulation on decisions of major polluters, using plant data for 1963 to 1992. A key regulatory tool since 1978 is the annual designation of county air quality attainment status, where non-attainment status triggers specific equipment...
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What's Missing in Environmental (Self-)Monitoring : Evidence from Strategic Shutdowns of Pollution Monitors
Mu, Yingfei; Rubin, Edward; Zou, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Regulators often rely on self-reported data to determine compliance. Tolerance for missingness in self-monitoring data may create incentives for local agents to strategically decide when (not) to monitor regulated activities. This paper builds a framework to detect whether local governments skip...
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Optimal Emission Pricing in the Presence of International Spillovers : Decomposing Leakage and Terms-of-Trade Motives
Böhringer, Christoph - 2010
Carbon control policies in OECD countries commonly differentiate emission prices in favor of energy …-intensive industries. While leakage provides a efficiency argument for differential emission pricing, the latter may be a disguised beggar … terms-of-trade motive for emission price differentiation. We illustrate our method with a quantitative impact assessment of …
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Technology, International Trade, and Pollution from U.S. Manufacturing
Levinson, Arik - 2007
Total pollution emitted by U.S. manufacturers declined over the past 30 years by about 60 percent, even though real manufacturing output increased 70 percent. This improvement must result from a combination of two trends: (1) changes in production or abatement processes ("technology"); or (2)...
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