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Why are Pollution Damages Lower in Developed Countries? Insights from High-Income, High-Particulate Matter Hong Kong
Colmer, Jonathan; Liu, Siying; Lin, Dajun; Shimshack, Jay - 2021
Conventional wisdom suggests that marginal damages from particulate matter pollution are high in less … birthweight and mortality effects of gestational particulate matter exposure in high-pollution yet high-income Hong Kong. The … our stark mortality results in a comparative analysis of pollution-mortality relationships across studies. We provide …
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Environmental Policies and Stagnation in a Two-Country Economy
Ikefuji, Masako; Ono, Yoshiyasu - 2023
warming is the result of prolonged pollution emissions by developed countries, while developed countries demand that … pollution emissions differ, depending on the combination of their business situations. If both countries achieve full employment …
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Export Take-Offs and Acceleration : Unpacking Cross-Sector Linkages in the Evolution of Comparative Advantage
Bahar, Dany - 2019
The transition into non-traditional export activities attracts important policy and academic attention. Using international trade data, we explore how alternative linkages relate to the take-off and acceleration of export industries. Concretely, we run a horse-race among alternative Marshallian...
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Pricing Pollution
Mideksa, Torben K. - 2020
its intensity (i.e., the tax rate or the quota level) to price pollution. When countries price pollution non …
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Inequality and the Environment : The Economics of a Two-Headed Hydra
Drupp, Moritz A.; Kornek, Ulrike; Meya, Jasper; Sager, Lutz - 2021
Preserving environmental quality and addressing economic inequality both feature prominently in public discourse. Neither of these two issues can be fully understood in isolation, and policies aiming at one issue will increasingly have to consider interactions with the other. We synthesize...
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The Falling Elasticity of Global Trade to Economic Activity : Testing the Demand Channel
Auboin, Marc - 2018
Since the recovery from the great financial crisis in 2010, global real trade flows grew much slower than pre-crisis, in both absolute terms (growth rates) and relative terms (relative to GDP, from 2:1 in the great 1990’s to 1:1 since 2012) A debate has arisen as to whether this global trade...
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Monopsonistic Labor Markets and International Trade
Ranjan, Priya - 2019
This paper introduces a framework to study the impact of trade liberalization on wage inequality and welfare in the presence of monopsonistic labor markets. The interaction of firm heterogeneity in productivity with idiosyncratic preferences of workers for working at different firms generates...
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Gravity Without Apology : The Science of Elasticities, Distance, and Trade
Carrère, Céline - 2020
Gravity as both fact and theory is one of the great success stories of recent research on international trade, and has … general-equilibrium system. Next, we point out some anomalies with the theory: mounting evidence against constant trade …
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Firms and Economic Performance : A View from Trade
Bonfiglioli, Alessandra - 2019
We use transaction-level US import data to compare firms from virtually all countries in the world competing in a single destination market. Guided by a simple theoretical framework, we decompose countries. market shares into the contribution of the number of firm-products, their average...
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Trade and the environment: The role of firm heterogeneity
Kreickemeier, Udo; Richter, Philipp M. - 2012
This paper derives a new effect of trade liberalisation on the quality of the environment. We show that in the presence of heterogeneous firms the aggregate volume of emissions is influenced not only by the long-established scale effect, but also by a reallocation effect resulting from an...
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