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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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Does economic development have an unavoidable ecological cost? We examine the ecological impacts of one of India's signature place-based economic policies involving massive tax benefits for new industrial and infrastructure development following the creation of the new state of Uttarakhand. The...
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distancing, travel and pollution is in its infancy. We pair a differences-in-differences framework and synthetic control methods … with rich cellular tracking and high frequency air pollution data.We find that state and U.S. county safer-at-home policies … range from $7 billion to $24 billion while the benefits from reduced pollution could range from $650 million to $13 …
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Many international organisations, including the European Parliament, see reducing food loss and waste as a priority. They argue that this will increase the efficiency of resource use and have beneficial environmental effects. This paper asserts that the scale of the problem has been overstated...
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This paper examines the extent to which the 2005 Clean Air Act introduced in South Korea affected air pollution and …
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We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany … patients (80+ years): higher levels of air pollution by one standard deviation 3 to 12 days after developing symptoms increase … deaths by 30 percent (males) and 35 percent (females) of the mean. In addition, air pollution raises the number of confirmed …
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literature. Here we study Europe's most aggressive recent air pollution regulation: Low Emission Zones are areas in which … Germany, we assess the distribution of air pollution and the spatial substitution effects in green versus dirty vehicles ….We find that LEZs decrease air pollution by around nine percent in urban traffic centers while pollution is unchanged in non …
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According to the pollution haven hypotheses differences in environmental regulation affect trade flows and plant … support to the pollution haven hypothesis, i.e. environmental stringency is not found to affect significantly total trade, or … its components (pollution intensive trade and pollution intensive trade related to non-resource-based trade) …
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This paper provides an overview of recent research on dual labour markets. Theoretical and empirical contributions on the labour-market effects of dual employment protection legislation are revisited, as well as factors behind its resilience and policies geared towards correcting its negative...
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The role of product innovations is growing in the world economy, and the EU and the US are key players here. The analysis presented herein explains product innovations in the EU25 for the period 2006-2012, namely through lagged R&D (relative to GDP), cumulated FDI inflows (relative to the host...
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