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A Review of the Circular Economy and its Implementation
Heshmati, Almas - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001862
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Estimating Production Functions in Differentiated-Product Industries with Quantity Information and External Instruments
de Roux, Nicolás; Eslava, Marcela; Franco, Santiago; … - 2021
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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251551
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North-South Displacement Effects of Environmental Regulation : The Case of Battery Recycling
Tanaka, Shinsuke; Teshima, Kensuke; Verhoogen, Eric A. - 2022
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087545
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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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The Spread of Anti-Trafficking Policies : Evidence from a New Index
Cho, Seo-Young - 2011
We analyze the spread of policies dealing with international trafficking in human beings. Arguing that countries are unlikely to make independent choices, we identify pressure, externalities and learning or emulation as plausible diffusion mechanisms for spatial dependence in anti-trafficking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128229
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Business Conditions and Default Risks Across Countries
Pflüger, Michael - 2011
The risk of default that business firms face is very significant and differs widely across countries. This paper explores the links between countries' business conditions and international trade embedment and the default risk at the country level from a theoretical point of view. Our main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128748
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Emigration and Democracy
Docquier, Frédéric - 2011
Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. We find that emigration and human capital both...
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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs to Create Larger Firms?
Estrin, Saul - 2011
We develop entrepreneurship and institutional theory to explain variation in different types of entrepreneurship across individuals and institutional contexts. Our framework generates hypotheses about the negative impact of higher levels of corruption, weaker property rights and especially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129940
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Globalization and Strategic Research Investments
Bohnstedt, Anna - 2011
We develop a general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous firms, where countries can invest into basic research to improve their technological potential. These research investments tighten firm selection and raise the average productivity of firms in the market, thereby...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131927
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Emotional Prosperity and the Stiglitz Commission
Oswald, Andrew J. - 2011
This paper argues, in line with the proposals of the recent Stiglitz Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress, that we should now be measuring a nation's emotional prosperity rather than its economic prosperity (that is, we ought to focus on the level of mental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131980