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Does LEED Certification Save Energy? Evidence from Federal Buildings
Clay, Karen; Severnini, Edson R.; Sun, Xiaochen - 2021
In the absence of first-best climate policy, energy efficiency has figured prominently among strategies to reduce carbon emissions. One of the most sought-after green certification in the building sector is the internationally recognized Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED). This...
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Tax Incidence in Heterogeneous Markets: The Pass-through of Air Passenger Taxes on Airfares
Wozny, Florian - 2024
The tax incidence is central to the effectiveness of taxation. In this paper, I examine the pass-through rate of an air passenger tax to airfares. Additionally, I analyse its impact on passenger numbers, air transport capacity, and the interaction with supply and demand elasticity. For...
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The Health Costs of Coal-Fired Power Plants in India
Barrows, Geoffrey; Garg, Teevrat; Jha, Akshaya - 2019
This paper estimates the effect of coal-fired power plants on infant mortality in India. We find that a one GW increase … in coal-fired capacity corresponds to a 14% increase in infant mortality rates in districts near versus far from the … imported coal. The environmental benefits from policy aimed at the power sector are thus likely to be substantially higher if …
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Air pollution and infant mortality: Evidence from the expansion of natural gas infrastructure
Cesur, Resul; Tekin, Erdal; Ulker, Aydogan - 2013
One of the consequences of rapid economic growth and industrialization in the developing world has been deterioration in environmental conditions and air quality. While air pollution is a serious threat to health in most developing countries, environmental regulations are rare and the...
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Can Natural Gas Save Lives? Evidence from the Deployment of a Fuel Delivery System in a Developing Country
Cesur, Resul; Tekin, Erdal; Ulker, Aydogan - 2016
There has been a widespread displacement of coal by natural gas as space heating and cooking technology in Turkey in …
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Air Pollution and Infant Mortality: Evidence from the Expansion of Natural Gas Infrastructure
Cesur, Resul; Tekin, Erdal; Ulker, Aydogan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
One of the consequences of rapid economic growth and industrialization in the developing world has been deterioration in environmental conditions and air quality. While air pollution is a serious threat to health in most developing countries, environmental regulations are rare and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128037
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Imports as product and labor market discipline
Boulhol, Hervé; Dobbelaere, Sabien; Maioli, Sara - 2006
between 1988 and 2003 using a two-stage estimation procedure. In the first stage, we use data on 9820 firms from twenty …
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Tax Policy, Location Choices, and Market Structure
Pfann, Gerard A.; van Kranenburg, Hans - 2002
A structural model of entry and fiscal policy is presented. It shows that taxation of variable production costs can increase product prices, lower competition, and reduce the availability of new products in small markets. The model?s test is based on a unique nationwide fiscal experiment. We...
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Survival in a Concentrating Industry: The Case of Daily Newspapers in the Netherlands
van Kranenburg, Hans L.; Palm, Franz; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2002
This paper studies the effects of aggregate, industry-, and firm-specific factors on the exit hazard rates in the market for daily newspapers in The Netherlands from 1950 to 1996. We present a brief overview of the exit literature. On the basis of the existing empirical evidence, we decided to...
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What explains the decline in wage mobility in the German low-wage sector?
Aretz, Bodo; Gürtzgen, Nicole - 2012
earnings attrition in our estimation approach by accounting for the selection into low-wage employment and earnings retention …
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