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Trade, Technology, and the Environment: Why Have Poor Countries Regulated Sooner?

Lovely, Mary; Popp, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Countries who adopted regulation of coal-fired power plants after 1980 generally did so at a much lower level of per-capita income than did early adopters -- poor countries regulated sooner. This phenomenon suggests that pioneering adopters of environmental regulation provide an advantage to...

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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...

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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 …

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The Impact of Piped Water Provision on Infant Mortality in Brazil: A Quantile Panel Data Approach

Gamper-Rabindran, Shanti; Khan, Shakeeb; Timmins, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

We examine the impact of piped water on the under-1 infant mortality rate (IMR) in Brazil using a novel econometric procedure for the estimation of quantile treatment effects with panel data. The provision of piped water in Brazil is highly correlated with other observable and unobservable...

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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...

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Carbon Motivated Border Tax Adjustments: Old Wine in Green Bottles?

Whalley, John; Lockwood, Ben - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

We discuss emerging proposals for border tax adjustments (BTAs) to accompany commitments to reduce carbon emissions in the EU, the US and other OECD economies. The rationale offered for such border adjustment is that various entities, such as the EU, if making commitments to reduce emissions...

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The Promise and Problems of Pricing Carbon: Theory and Experience

Aldy, Joseph E.; Stavins, Robert Norman - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Because of the global commons nature of climate change, international cooperation among nations will likely be necessary for meaningful action at the global level. At the same time, it will inevitably be up to the actions of sovereign nations to put in place policies that bring about meaningful...

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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...

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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

We collect extensive data on worldwide trade by transportation mode and use this to provide detailed comparisons of the greenhouse gas emissions associated with output versus international transportation of traded goods. International transport is responsible for 33 percent of world-wide...

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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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