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Technology, International Trade, and Pollution from U.S. Manufacturing

Levinson, Arik - 2014

Total pollution emitted by U.S. manufacturers declined over the past 30 years by about 60 percent, even though real manufacturing output increased 70 percent. This improvement must result from a combination of two trends: (1) changes in production or abatement processes (quot;technologyquot;);...

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Capital structure and regulation in US local telephony: an exploratory econometric study

Resende, Marcelo - 2009

The paper aims at empirically investigating the relationship between regulation and the capital structure of the regulated firm, A key aspect of the referred relationship pertains a leverage effect according to which debt could be increased as a response to previous physical capital investment...

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The impact of city contracting set-asides on black self-employment and employment

Chatterji, Aaron K.; Chay, Kenneth Y.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2013

In the 1980s, many U.S. cities initiated programs reserving a proportion of government contracts for minority-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and employment rates of African-American men. Black...

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Supply restrictions, subprime lending and regional US house prices

Anundsen, André Kallåk; Heebøll, Christian - 2015

With regard to the recent US house price cycle, we analyze how the interaction between housing supply restrictions … Statistical Areas, we estimate a simultaneous boom-bust system for house prices, housing supply and subprime lending. The model … accounts for regional differences in supply elasticities that are determined by local variations in topographical and …

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Should we be worried about the green paradox? : announcement effects of the acid rain program

Di Maria, Corrado; Lange, Ian; Van der Werf, Edwin - 2012 - This version: May 21, 2012

imperfectly implemented policies may lead to detrimental environmental outcomes due to supply side responses. We use the … future sales to decline, would supply more of their resource between the announcement of the Acid Rain Program and its … implementation; moreover, the incentive to increase supply would be stronger for owners of high-sulfur coal. This would, all else …