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We combine consumption generated cross-border pollution and public pollution abatement in a theoretical framework to … with public pollution abatement, the non-cooperative equilibrium origin-based consumption taxes are set efficiently. This … pollution abatement, the Nash equilibrium commodity taxes under either taxation principle are inefficient. …
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Output-based allocations (OBAs) are typically used in emission trading schemes to mitigate leakage in sectors at risk. Recent work has shown they may also help to stabilize prices in markets subject to supply and demand shocks. We extend previous work to simultaneously include both leakage and...
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evidence that power plants spend less in water pollution abatement if the governor of the state where the plant is located is a … leads to increased pollution. …
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This analysis seeks to understand whether changes in oil regulation brought about by the shale revolution have restricted the pace of drilling and production. This hypothesis is tested using data on North Dakota and Montana both before and after North Dakota increased the level of bonding...
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model to recreate the spatial distribution of pollution. First, individual-level census data show that pollution induced … neighborhood sorting during the course of the nineteenth century. Historical pollution patterns explain up to 15% of withincity … deprivation in 1881. Second, these equilibria persist to this day even though the pollution that initially caused them has waned …
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The long-term trend toward more work from home due to digitization has found a strong new driver, the Covid-19 pandemic. The profound change in urban mobility patterns supports the often-held view that reducing the number of commuting trips can lower carbon emissions to a certain degree. We...
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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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Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are exerting growing pressure on firms to eliminate product components (such as palm oil) that are harmful to the environment (such as rainforests) or replace such components with NGO-certified sustainable components. Under which conditions does NGO pressure...
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its intensity (i.e., the tax rate or the quota level) to price pollution. When countries price pollution non …
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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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