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The EU and the U.S. confront distinct factor market dynamics and common policy challenges. Labor market developments …
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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 …
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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...
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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...
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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)...
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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.
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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...
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universal preschools offer a relatively high-quality learning experience for low-income children not reflected in typical … quality metrics. …
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enhances productivity and quality through mechanisms including employees becoming better motivated, more informed and paying …
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