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Government Repression and the Death Toll from Natural Disasters
Costa, Samia - 2012
Natural disasters have been a major cause of human suffering. Countries with higher income, lower inequality, lower corruption, and more democratic regimes have been found to experience less casualties from disasters. Government repression, however, could also play a role in disaster...
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We are All in the Same Boat : Cross-Border Spillovers of Climate Shocks Through International Trade and Supply Chain
Feng, Alan; Li, Haishi; Wang, Yulin - 2023
Are land locked countries subject to sea-level rise risk? We highlight a new mechanism by which physical climate shocks affects countries’ macro-financial performance: the cross-border spillover effects that propagate through international trade. Basing our findings on historical data between...
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Decoupling Global Value Chains
Eppinger, Peter; Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Krebs, Oliver; … - 2021
Recent disruptions to global value chains (GVCs) have raised an important question: Can decoupling from GVCs increase a country’s welfare by reducing its exposure to foreign supply shocks? We use a quantitative trade model to simulate GVCs decoupling, defined as increased barriers to global...
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Would My Driving Pattern Change If My Neighbor Were to Buy an Emission-Free Car?
Kverndokk, Snorre - 2019
Aiming to reduce the number of brown (polluting) cars on the road, several countries currently promote the purchase and use of green (emission-free) cars through financial and non-financial incentives. We study how such incentives affect consumers who continue to drive brown cars. Using a simple...
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What Role for Electric Vehicles in the Decarbonization of the Car Transport Sector in Europe?
Littlejohn, Christina - 2019
The transport sector is the only sector where carbon emissions continue to grow. This has led policy makers to propose ambitious policies to reduce emissions in the car sector, in particular fuel efficiency standards, portfolio mandates for Electric Vehicles and purchase taxes or subsidies. A...
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Regulating Untaxable Externalities : Are Vehicle Air Pollution Standards Effective and Efficient?
Jacobsen, Mark R.; Sallee, James; Shapiro, Joseph S.; … - 2022
transportation, and counterfactual policies. We show that the air pollution emissions per mile of new US vehicles has fallen …
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Supply Chain Reliability and International Economic Growth: Impacts of Disruptions like COVID-19
Goel, Rajeev K.; Saunoris, James W.; Goel, Srishti S. - 2020
importance, formal research on the contribution of supply chain logistics, including the relative impacts across different … logistics dimensions, is less. The importance of supply chains has been recently been brought to the forefront in the wake of … examine the relative effects of the different aspects of supply chain logistics on economic growth. Placing the empirical …
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Ending Covid-19 Vaccine Apartheid through Vaccine Donations: The Influence of Supply Chains
Goel, Rajeev K.; Nelson, Michael A. - 2023
supply chains reduced donations. The impacts of corruption and logistics performance likely persisted from pre-COVID times …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469784
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Supply Chain Reliability and International Economic Growth : Impacts of Disruptions Like COVID-19
Goel, Rajeev K. - 2020
importance, formal research on the contribution of supply chain logistics, including the relative impacts across different … logistics dimensions, is less. The importance of supply chains has been recently been brought to the forefront in the wake of … examine the relative effects of the different aspects of supply chain logistics on economic growth. Placing the empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833727
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Gender Empowerment, Supply-Chain Linkages and Foreign Direct Investment : Evidence on Bangladesh
Kee, Hiau-Looi - 2020
This paper studies foreign direct investment (FDI) spillovers on gender labor market practices of domestic firms, based on a unique firm-to-firm dataset of Bangladesh's textiles and garment sectors. We look at the female employment of domestic firms that are directly and indirectly related to...
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