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Personal automobile emissions are a major source of urban air pollution. Many U.S. states control emissions through … an initial emissions inspection, with individual-level data from 1998-2012 from California's inspection program … air pollution. This suggests emissions inspections have become less effective at reducing local air pollution as more high …
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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-thy-neighbor policy to exploit terms of trade. Using an...
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greenhouse gas emissions associated with output versus international transportation of traded goods. International transport is … responsible for 33 percent of world-wide trade-related emissions, and over 75 percent of emissions for major manufacturing …-thirds of its export-related emissions are due to international transport, and US exports by themselves generate a third of …
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Firms sometimes comply with externality-correcting policies by gaming the measure that determines policy. We show theoretically that such gaming can benefit consumers, even when it induces them to make mistakes, because gaming leads to lower prices by reducing costs. We use our insights to...
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Household carbon dioxide emissions have been an increasing function of income and distance from the city. Richer … electricity emissions as a function of income have flattened, the natural gas Engel curves have not. We explore the political …
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into the atmosphere, and there is an active debate concerning the desirability of reducing emissions. At the heart of this … debate is the future path of both greenhouse gas emissions and economic development among the nations. We use global panel … data to estimate the relationship between per capita income and carbon dioxide emissions, and then use the estimated …
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We compare the spatial distribution of emissions from Southern California's pollution-trading program with that of a … demographic groups and generated a more equitable overall distribution of emissions even after controlling for its lower aggregate … emissions. Upper-income and white demographics had more desirable distributions relative to low-income and some minority groups …
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A sizeable number of papers beginning with Roberts and Spence (1976) have studied the use of price floors and ceilings (or "collars") to manage prices in tradable permit markets. In contrast, economists have only recently begun examining polices to manage quantities under a pollution tax....
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To understand the impacts of support programs on global emissions, this paper considers the impacts of domestic …) emissions from agriculture. In a step towards a full evaluation of the impacts, it uses a counterfactual global model scenario … showing how much emissions from agricultural production would change if agricultural support were abolished worldwide. The …
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gas emissions disclosure in all public firms. Consistent with our theory, we find that firms in the UK receive lower CSR …
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