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A review of the circular economy and its implementation

Heshmati, Almas - 2015

Circular economy (CE) is a sustainable development strategy that is being proposed to tackle urgent problems of environmental degradation and resource scarcity. CE's 3R principles are to reduce, reuse and recycle materials. The principles account for a circular system where all materials are...

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Estimating production functions in differentiated-product industries with quantity information and external instruments

Roux, Nicolás de; Eslava, Marcela; Franco, Santiago; … - 2020

This paper develops a new method for estimating production-function parameters that can be applied in differentiated-product industries with endogenous quality and variety choice. We take advantage of data on physical quantities of outputs and inputs from the Colombian manufacturing survey,...

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Can reminders promote regular pro-environmental behavior? : experimental evidence from Peru

Fuhrmann, Hanna; D'Exelle, Ben; López Vargas, Kristian; … - 2024

-environmental behavior. To fill this gap, we investigate the impact of mobile text reminders on households' recycling behavior in urban Peru … the likelihood that households start to recycle, and the frequency of recycling among households that already recycled …

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An empirical survey of the ramifications of a green economy

Heshmati, Almas - 2014

The unprecedented deterioration of our global environment has increased the necessity of relying upon Green Economic policies as critical and effective environmental management tools. The current situation has stimulated extensive research and debate among global interest groups. This has...

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North-South displacement effects of environmental regulation: the case of battery recycling

Tanaka, Shinsuke; Teshima, Kensuke; Verhoogen, Eric - 2021

battery recycling to Mexico and on infant health in Mexico. In the U.S., airborne lead dropped sharply near affected plants …, most of which were battery-recycling plants. Exports of used batteries to Mexico rose markedly. In Mexico, production … increased at battery-recycling plants, relative to comparable industries, and birth outcomes deteriorated within two miles of …

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Determinants of pollution abatement and control expenditure : evidence from Romania

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2008

The aim of the present study is to shed some light on the factors affecting Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure (PACE) in the context of a transition economy such as Romania, in contrast to the existing literature which mostly focuses on developed economies. Specifically, we use survey...

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Divestment and engagement : the effect of green investors on corporate carbon emissions

Kahn, Matthew E.; Matsusaka, John G.; Shu, Chong - 2023

This paper studies whether green investors can influence corporate greenhouse gas emissions through capital markets, either by divesting their stock and limiting polluters' access to capital, or holding polluters' stock and engaging with management. We focus on public pension funds, classifying...

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The role of firm dynamics in the green transition : carbon productivity decomposition in Finnish manufacturing

Kuosmanen, Natalia; Maczulskij, Terhi - 2023

This paper explores the importance of firm dynamics, including entry and exit and the allocation of carbon emissions across firms, on the green transition. Using the 2000–2019 firm-level register data on greenhouse gas emissions matched with the Financial Statement data in the Finnish...

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Does globalisation increase child labour?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio Camillo; Guarcello, Lorenzo - 2002

There is no empirical evidence that trade exposure per se increases child labour. As trade theory and household economics lead us to expect, the cross-country evidence seems to indicate that trade reduces or, at worst, has no significant effect on child labour. Consistently with the theory, a...

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In-group cooperation in a hostile environment : an economic perspective on some aspects of Jewish life in (pre-modern) diaspora

Rapoport, Hillel; Weiss, Avi - 2002

The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main phenomena: i) a sharp drop in the number of Jews until the beginning of the modern period, due mainly to conversions; and, ii) early urbanization. Until now, these features have been analyzed as primarily...

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