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Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality : Evidence from the Nox Budget Program and Ozone Reductions
Deschenes, Olivier - 2014
emissions, a key ingredient in ozone formation. A rich quasi-experiment reveals that it decreased summertime ozone … conclude that ozone reductions are the primary channel for these effects, implying that ozone's costs are larger than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013063105
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Timing Matters : Shifting Economic Activity and Intra-Day Variation in Ambient Ozone Concentrations
2020
Ground-level ozone has been shown to have significant health consequences from short-term exposure, and as such has … been regulated in the U.S. since the 1970s by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Ozone is not emitted directly … ozone precursors and not when these emissions occur. Using hourly data on ambient ozone from 1980-2017 near the U.S. time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829224
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Three New Empirical Tests of the Pollution Haven Hypothesis When Environmental Regulation is Endogenous
Millimet, Daniel L. - 2014
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/10013067531
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Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure in Romania : A Multilevel Analysis
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2014
The transition process in Central and Eastern Europe was associated with growing environmental awareness. This paper analyses the determinants of Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure (PACE) at plant level in the case of Romania using survey data and a Multilevel Regression Model (MRM)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069636
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Environmental Federalism : A Survey of the Empirical Literature
Millimet, Daniel L. - 2013
Environmental federalism refers to the debate over the 'optimal' level of government at which to delegate environmental policymaking. Although this issue receives widespread attention across the globe, opinions run the gamut. The diversity of views plays out in practice as well as different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071291
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The Ecological Impact of Place-Based Economic Policies
Garg, Teevrat - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838475
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Quasi-Experimental Methods in Environmental Economics : Opportunities and Challenges
Deschenes, Olivier - 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/10012911103
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Hurricanes, Climate Change Policies and Electoral Accountability
Gagliarducci, Stefano - 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/10012870147
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Keep Your Clunker in the Suburb : Low Emission Zones and Adoption of Green Vehicles
Wolff, Hendrik - 2014
literature. Here we study Europe's most aggressive recent air pollution regulation: Low Emission Zones are areas in which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053438
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Green Cities? Urbanization, Trade and the Environment
Borck, Rainald - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016391