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literature on the Porter Hypothesis, which posits a positive relationship between environmental regulation and "green" TFP growth … and enforcement. Our key findings are: (1) prudential regulation limits expansion of plants with high initial pollution …; (2) regulation, however, is not conducive to plants' "green" technical change, which provides evidence against the recast …
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assess the effectiveness and efficiency of these standards, which are the centerpiece of US Clean Air Act regulation of …
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We test for the distributional effects of regulation and entry in the mobile telecommunications sector in a highly … mobile termination rate regulation. We find that regulation benefits consumers significantly more than entry does, and that …
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This paper investigates telecommunication operator investment in broadband infrastructure after local deregulation of the wholesale broadband access market. Using a panel dataset covering all 5,598 exchange areas in the United Kingdom, we exploit regional differences in deregulation following a...
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telecommunications operator France Telecom was simultaneously subjected to the deregulation of the telecom market in the world and to a …
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We study the environmental and economic effects of public abatement in the presence of multiple stable steady-state ecological equilibria. Under shallow-lake dynamics (SLD), the isocline for the stock of pollution features two stable branches, a good and a bad one. Assuming that the ecology is...
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We study the importance of uncertainty and public finance to the welfare ranking of three environmental policy instruments: pollution taxes, pollution permits and Kyoto-like numerical rules for emissions. The setup is the basic stochastic neoclassical growth model augmented with the assumptions...
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We analyse optimal environmental policies in a market that is vertically differentiated in terms of the energy efficiency of products. Considering energy taxes, subsidies to firms for investment in more eco-friendly products, and product standards, we are particularly interested in how...
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country significantly attracts FDI. What is important for these pollution haven effects is not only regulation but also … haven ; FDI ; environmental policy ; regulation ; enforcement ; strategic effects ; footloose industries ; CSR …
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This paper aims to help policy makers identify how standards can contribute to the effective and cost-efficient development and deployment of eco-innovations (innovations that result in a reduction of environmental impact). To that end we discuss what standards are, how the process of...
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