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Industry Compensation Under Relocation Risk: A Firm-Level Analysis of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme
Martin, Ralf; Muûls, Mirabelle; Preux, Laure B. de; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
When regulated firms are offered compensation to prevent them from relocating, efficiency requires that payments be distributed across firms so as to equalize marginal relocation probabilities, weighted by the damage caused by relocation. We formalize this fundamental economic logic and apply it...
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The Competitiveness Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation Policies
Aldy, Joseph E.; Pizer, William A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
In order to clarify ongoing debates over the competitiveness impacts of climate change regulation, we develop a precise definition that can be estimated with available domestic production, trade, and energy price data. We use this definition and a 20+ year panel of 400+ U.S. manufacturing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009403428
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Air Quality and Early-Life Mortality: Evidence from Indonesia's Wildfires
Jayachandran, Seema - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Smoke from massive wildfires blanketed Indonesia in late 1997. This paper examines the impact this air pollution … (particulate matter) had on fetal, infant, and child mortality. Exploiting the sharp timing and spatial patterns of the pollution … and inferring deaths from "missing children" in the 2000 Indonesian Census, I find that the pollution led to 15 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005774612
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What Works in Fighting Diarrheal Diseases in Developing Countries? A Critical Review
Kremer, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
The Millennium Development Goals call for reducing by half the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water. This goal was adopted in large part because clean water was seen as critical to fighting diarrheal disease, which kills 2 million children annually. There is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005777734
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Waste of Effort? International Environmental Agreements
Levinson, Arik; Kellenberg, Derek - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Many of the world's environmental problems cross international borders, and to address those problems approximately 1,000 different International Environmental Agreements (IEAs) are in operation today. Most evidence, however suggests that those IEAs are ineffectual, merely ratifying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950867
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Per-capita Income as a Determinant of International Trade and Environmental Policies
Markusen, James R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
International trade policy analysis has tended to focus on the production side of general equilibrium, with policies such as a tariff or carbon tax affecting international and internal income distributions through a Heckscher-Ohlin nexus of factor intensities and factor endowments. Here I move...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951124
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Sources of Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries
Broner, Fernando; Bustos, Paula; Carvalho, Vasco M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
the country level with data on pollution intensity at the industry level to show that countries with laxer environmental …. We propose an instrument for environmental regulation based on meteorological determinants of pollution dispersion identi …...ed by the atmospheric pollution literature. We find that the effect of environmental regulation on the pattern of trade is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951352
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Trade and the Greenhouse Gas Emissions from International Freight Transport
Cristea, Anca D.; Hummels, David L.; Puzzello, Laura; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
emissions. Full liberalization of tariffs and GDP growth concentrated in China and India lead to transport emissions growing …
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What Role for Trade in a Post 2012 Global Climate Policy Regime
Whalley, John - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This paper discusses the role that trade can potentially play in both negotiating and operating a post Kyoto/post 2012 global climate policy regime. As an addition to the bargaining set for a global climate negotiation, trade in principle widens the range of jointly beneficial potential outcomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325502
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Embodied Carbon Tariffs
Rutherford, Thomas F.; Böhringer, Christoph; Carbone, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
In a world where the prospects of a global agreement to control greenhouse gas emissions are bleak, the idea of using trade policy as an implicit regulation of foreign emission sources has gained many supporters in countries contemplating unilateral climate policies. Embodied carbon tariffs tax...
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