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provided the federal government with the authority to "control" air pollution, sending a strong signal to firms of impending …
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, environmental regulation, productivity, and consumer preferences have contributed to these reductions in pollution emissions. We … estimate the model's key parameters using administrative data on plant-level production and pollution decisions. We then … pollution changes. Finally, we compare the model-driven decomposition to a statistical decomposition. The model and data suggest …
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28%. Further, fracking decreased local air pollution by an average of 4%. We show that benefits vary geographically; air … pollution levels decreased by 35% in the most affected region. Back of the envelope calculations imply accumulated health …
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births where one or more child was exposed to TRI pollution during gestation and other siblings were not exposed because the … exposed prenatally to TRI pollution have lower wages, are more likely to be in poverty as adults, have fewer years of …
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on establishment-level pollution emissions and business characteristics - including trade activities and global … trade policy uncertainty. Emission abatement is mainly driven by a decline in pollution emission intensity, and not by … pollution haven hypothesis whereby offshoring is central to the mechanism - US manufacturers begin to source from abroad and …
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The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated interest among researchers, consumers and producer organizations, managers, regulators and policymakers, This research reviews the growing literature on models used to study...
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This paper establishes a simple theoretical framework which comprises key forces that shape the structure and interrelation of cities to study the interdependencies between urban evolution and the environment. We focus on the potential of the unfettered market forces to economize on emissions. A...
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governments establish the optimal city size when production processes involve environmental pollution. Our analysis delivers two … key insights. First, if an optimal scheme to regulate environmental pollution is implemented, cities chosen by local … governments are never too large. They are too small if pollution is purely global, but at the optimal size, if pollution is purely …
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In an attempt to verify the pollution haven hypothesis, this study investigates the impact of environmental regulations … the host country's environmental regulations. Since the pollution haven's effects indicate moving the polluting production … those countries. This supports the prevalence of the effects of pollution havens. However, before we separate the FDI into …
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-market valuation ; cost-benefit analysis ; air pollution …
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