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Regulating Mismeasured Pollution : Implications of Firm Heterogeneity for Environmental Policy
Lyubich, Eva - 2018
This paper provides the first estimates of within-industry heterogeneity in energy and CO2 productivity for the entire U.S. manufacturing sector. We measure energy and CO2 productivity as output per dollar energy input or per ton CO2 emitted. Three findings emerge. First, within narrowly defined...
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GHG Targets as Insurance Against Catastrophic Climate Damages
Weitzman, Martin L. - 2010
A critical issue in climate-change economics is the specification of the so-called "damages function" and its interaction with the unknown uncertainty of catastrophic outcomes. This paper asks how much we might be misled by our economic assessment of climate change when we employ a conventional...
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Monitoring and Enforcement of Climate Policy
Sigman, Hilary - 2010
This chapter applies recent research on environmental enforcement to a potential U.S. program to control greenhouse gases, especially through emission trading. Climate policies present the novel problem of integrating emissions reductions that are relatively easy to monitor (such as carbon...
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Regularization from Economic Constraints : A New Estimator for Marginal Emissions
Holland, Stephen P.; Mansur, Erin; Verdier, Valentin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Environmental policy is increasingly concerned with measuring emissions resulting from local changes to electricity consumption. These marginal emissions are challenging to measure because electricity grids encompass multiple locations and the information available to identify the effect of each...
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Misallocation or Mismeasurement?
Bils, Mark - 2020
The ratio of revenue to inputs differs greatly across plants within countries such as the U.S. and India. Such gaps may … measurement error. Our method exploits how revenue growth is less sensitive to input growth when a plant's average products are … overstated by measurement error. For Indian manufacturing from 1985-2013, our correction lowers potential gains from reallocation …
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Detecting Urban Markets with Satellite Imagery : An Application to India
Vogel, Kathryn Baragwanath - 2018
This paper proposes a methodology for defining urban markets based on economic activity detected by satellite imagery. We use nighttime lights data, whose use in economics is increasingly common, to define urban markets based on contiguous pixels that have a minimum threshold of light intensity....
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Measuring Discrimination in Education
Hanna, Rema - 2009
In this paper, we illustrate a methodology to measure discrimination in educational contexts. In India, we ran an exam …
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On the Measure of Distortions
Hopenhayn, Hugo A. - 2014
for distortions to explain large TFP gaps. The effect of curvature on the impact and measurement of distortions is also …
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Using Aggregated Relational Data to Feasibly Identify Network Structure without Network Data
Breza, Emily - 2017
, we show that in rural India, for example, ARD surveys are 80% cheaper than full network surveys …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455190
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Level versus Equivalent Intensity Carbon Mitigation Commitments
Tian, Huifang - 2009
Large population / rapidly growing economies such as China and India have argued that in the upcoming UNFCCC …
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