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Economic Growth and the Environment : A Review of Theory and Empirics

Brock, William A. - 2004

potentially refutable predictions on abatement costs, pollution levels, or emission intensities …

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Globalization and International Commodity Trade with Specific Reference to the West African Cocoa Producers

Gilbert, Christopher L. - 2003

in lower world prices. Farmers therefore get a higher share of a lower price. Cocoa is the market where these changes … world rather than domestic prices. Producer prices have tended to rise as a share of fob prices as intermediation costs and … have been most pronounced. The incidence of the liberalization benefits in cocoa is largely on developed country consumers …

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

Fan, Haichao - 2019

exists an evident heterogeneous effect across industries with different pollution intensities. Stricter environmental …

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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

, 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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The Kindergarten Rule of Sustainable Growth

Brock, William A. - 2003

The relationship between economic growth and the environment is not well understood: we have only limited understanding of the basic science involved and very limited data. Because of these difficulties it is especially important to develop a series of relatively simple theoretical models that...

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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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Firm Commitments

Bolton, Patrick; Kacperczyk, Marcin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

A growing fraction of companies globally have made commitments to reduce their carbon emissions by a certain date. While the companies that make commitments subsequently reduce their emissions, the effect on overall emissions of companies (including those that do not commit) has been small; the...

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The Environment and Globalization

Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 2003

measures of air pollution such as SO2 concentrations. Perceptions that WTO panel rulings have interfered with the ability of …

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Trade, Growth and the Environment

Copeland, Brian R. - 2003

, species extinction and industrial pollution were rising. Recently it has been intensified by the creation of the World Trade …

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Globalization and Dirty Industries : Do Pollution Havens Matter?

Grether, Jean-Marie - 2003

This paper reviews arguments and evidence on the impact of globalization on the environment, then presents evidence on production and international trade flows in five heavily polluting industries for 52 countries over the period 1981-98. A new decomposition of revealed comparative advantage...

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