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How can we assess the welfare of a society, its evolution over time and predict its change due to particular policy interventions? One way is to use survey-based welfare indicators such as the OECD Better Life Index. It invites people to weight a variety of quality of life indicators according...
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facilities in Europe jointly with their output, productivity, and other key economic outcomes. To disentangle the influence of … and productivity do not change suggesting that reductions in emissions follow proportional reductions in output rather … productivity and profits of other facilities and firms owned by the acquiring parent company after a change in ownership. …
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examine the mechanism and show that the productivity channel accounted for the observed pattern. Specifically, more efficient …
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Relative prices determine competitiveness of different locations. In this paper, we focus on the role of regulatory differences between Germany and other EU countries which affect the shadow price of carbon emissions. We calibrate a Melitz-type model, extended by firms’ emissions and abatement...
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Is a firm's ability to export an important determinant of environmental performance? To answer this question, we construct a unique micro dataset that merged two rich firm-level datasets for China for 2007. When combining this new dataset with well-received empirical specifications, we found...
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This paper presents a system of greenhouse gas indicators for markets and policymakers. The system is lean and informative. It condenses the relevant product and enterprise-specific information into a single number: the greenhouse gas (GHG) value. Like prices, GHG values are easy to understand,...
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Labor productivity is more procyclical in OECD countries with lower employment volatility. To capture this new stylized … our model with variable effort, greater labor market frictions are associated with procyclical labor productivity as well … data. By implication, labor market deregulation has a greater effect on the cyclicality of labor productivity and on the …
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