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This paper adds to the literature on transboundary pollution by considering pollution related to both production and … transboundary pollution to analyze the effects of trade liberalization on economic performance under two types of pollution. Our … pollution is considered. When trade liberalization policy is mutually implemented, consumer surplus and social environmental …
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particulate (PM2.5) exposure to study the evolution of the Black-White pollution exposure gap over the past 40 years. In doing so …-preserving compression in the overall pollution distribution and (2) changes that stem from a reordering of Black and White households within … the pollution distribution. We find a significant narrowing of the Black-White PM2.5 exposure gap over this time period …
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International trade is highly imbalanced both in terms of values and in terms of embodied carbon emissions. We show that the persistent current value trade imbalance patterns contribute to a higher level of global emissions compared to a world of balanced international trade. Specifically, we...
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The relative equity pricing of more climate-friendly ("green") versus less climate-friendly ("brown") companies is an open question in climate finance. Previous research comes to conflicting conclusions, documenting either a "carbon premium" with brown stocks yielding higher returns, or the...
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In their role as agenda setters and implementers of political decisions, bureaucrats potentially have the power to influence decisions in their own favor. It is however difficult to empirically test whether bureaucrats actually are involved in such actions. In this paper we suggest and apply a...
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players moved early. Interest rates did not increase in Sweden so there was little to gain by a delayed attack. -- Speculative …
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One goal of the public employment service is to facilitate matching between unemployed job seekers and job vacancies; another goal is to monitor job search so as to bring search efforts among the unemployed in line with search requirements. The referral of job seekers to vacancies is one...
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Sweden reached the 2007 OECD average level of female labor force participation already in 1974. Before, but not after … employment in Sweden in the beginning of the 1970’s. Simulations suggest that employment among married women would have been 10 …
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late-1980s to reduce water and air pollution, and the global economic slowdown of the early-1990s. The primary focus of … Sweden. I find interesting differences and similarities in the firms’ strategies in terms of how they responded to these …
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