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Regime shifts and uncertainty in pollution control

Zeeuw, Aart de; Zemel, Amos - 2012

We develop a simple model of managing a system subject to pollution damage under risk of an abrupt and random jump in …. -- environmental pollution ; optimal management ; catastrophic transitions ; uncertainty ; adaptation ; mitigation …

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What to do with the ECB's secondary mandate

Klooster, Jens van 't; Boer, Nik de - In: Journal of common market studies : JCMS 61 (2023) 3, pp. 730-746

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Information asymmetry, education signals and the case of ethnic and native Germans

Hornig, Stephan O.; Rottmann, Horst; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2009

whether the signalling value differs between the migrants and non-migrants in the German labour market. Starting from the … administrative data from the German Federal Employment Agency. -- sorting theory ; human-capital theory ; returns to education …

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Pandemic meets pollution : poor air quality increases deaths by COVID-19

Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Pestel, Nico - 2020

We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany … patients (80+ years): higher levels of air pollution by one standard deviation 3 to 12 days after developing symptoms increase … deaths by 30 percent (males) and 35 percent (females) of the mean. In addition, air pollution raises the number of confirmed …

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Works councils and environmental investment : theory and evidence from German panel data

Askildsen, Jan Erik; Jirjahn, Uwe; Smith, Stephan C. - 2002

Firms may underinvest in local environmental protection even from the private viewpoint of its owners and employees, but works councils may help mitigate this problem. We show that increases in environmental investments when councils are present could be employee-led, firm-led, or jointly-led....

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Green serves the dirtiest : on the interaction between Black and Green Quotas

Böhringer, Christoph; Rosendahl, Knut Einar - 2009

Tradable black (CO2) and green (renewables) quotas gain in popularity and stringency within climate policies of many OECD countries. The overlapping regulation through both instruments, however, may have important adverse economic implications. Based on stylized theoretical analysis and...

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