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The Conflict Over Environmental Regulation in the United States : Origins, Outcomes, and Comparisons With the EU and Other Regions
Manheim, Frank T. (contributor) - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013521083
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Innovation, Employment and Growth Policy Issues in the EU and the US
Welfens, Paul J. J. (contributor);  … - 2009
The EU and the U.S. confront distinct factor market dynamics and common policy challenges. Labor market developments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013521217
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The Quality of Our Financial Markets : Taking Stock of Where We Stand
Schwartz, Robert A. - 2013
Quality of Our Financial Markets -- High Frequency Trading: Friend or Foe? -- Mid-Day Address -- May 6: Lessons Learned … that mean that market quality has improved? That is the key question addressed in this book, titled after the Baruch … College Conference, The Quality of Our Financial Markets: Taking Stock of Where We Stand. Featuring contributions from a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014016378
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Three new empirical tests of the pollution haven hypothesis when environmental regulation is endogenous
Millimet, Daniel L.; Roy, Jayjit - 2011
The validity of existing empirical tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis (PHH) is constantly under scrutiny due to two shortcomings. First, the issues of unobserved heterogeneity and measurement error in environmental regulation are typically ignored due to the lack of a credible, traditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009315496
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Hurricanes, climate change policies and electoral accountability
Gagliarducci, Stefano; Paserman, Marco Daniele; … - 2019
This paper studies how politicians and voters respond to new information on the threats of climate change. Using data on the universe of federal disaster declarations between 1989 and 2014, we document that congress members from districts hit by a hurricane are more likely to support bills...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012006068
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Quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics : opportunities and challenges
Deschênes, Olivier; Meng, Kyle C. - 2018
This paper examines the application of quasi-experimental methods in environmental economics. We begin with two observations: i) standard quasi-experimental methods, first applied in other microeconomic fields, typically assume unit-level treatments that do not spill over across units; (ii)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011906389
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The Sustainable Provision of Environmental Services : From Regulation to Innovation
Aerni, Philipp - 2016
Acknowledgements -- Executive Summary -- 1 The Historical Context of Payments for Environmental Services -- 2 Payments for Environmental Services: Revisiting the Theoretical Baseline Assumptions -- 3 The Practical Perspective of Environmental Services Management -- 4 Conclusions -- Annex.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014020237
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Trade policy uncertainty, offshoring, and the environment : evidence from US manufacturing establishments
Choi, Jaerim; Hyun, Jay; Kim, Gueyon; Park, Ziho - 2023
We study long-run environmental impacts of trade liberalization on US manufacturing by exploiting a plausibly exogenous reduction in US trade policy uncertainty: the conferral of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China. Using detailed data on establishment-level pollution emissions and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013540780
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Does universal preschool hit the target? : program access and preschool impacts
Cascio, Elizabeth U. - 2017
universal preschools offer a relatively high-quality learning experience for low-income children not reflected in typical … quality metrics. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621468
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The impact of teams on output, quality and downtime : an empirical analysis using individual panel data
Jones, Derek Charles (contributor); Kato, Takao (contributor) - 2007
enhances productivity and quality through mechanisms including employees becoming better motivated, more informed and paying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003591493