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industrialization. Will pollution continue to increase without bound as more and more countries pass through the development phase or …-regulating' in the sense that as income increases, pollution controls also increase. However, this intuition is somewhat misleading … rate of development of the economy through market interactions and the extent of pollution regulation through collective …
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can establish the overall pollution-reduction goal for a cap-and-trade system by setting the cap, and leave it up to the … theory and in practice. A number of factors can call the independence property into question theoretically, including market …
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: concentrations of urban air pollution; measures of the state of the oxygen regime in river basins; concentrations of fecal …
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Efficient responses to climate change require accurate estimates of both aggregate damages and where and to whom they occur. While specific case studies and simulations have suggested that climate change disproportionately affects the poor, large-scale direct evidence of the magnitude and...
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Green growth is about making growth resource-efficient, cleaner and more resilient without slowing it. This paper aims at clarifying this in an analytical framework and proposing foundations for green growth. This framework identifies channels through which green policies can potentially...
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This article studies how liability for environmentally harmful discharges affects the incentives of firms to engage in cleanup and invest in precautions, as well as the incentives of consumers to purchase the goods whose production leads to discharges. Our main conclusion is that making firms...
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Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson factor endowments model. We draw quite heavily from trade theory, but develop a simple pollution …This paper sets out a general equilibrium pollution and trade model to provide a framework for examination of the trade … and environment debate. The model contains as special cases a canonical pollution haven model as well as the standard …
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Climate policy is complicated by the considerable compounded uncertainties over the costs and benefits of abatement. We don't even know the probability distributions for future temperatures and impacts, making cost-benefit analysis based on expected values challenging to say the least. There are...
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plant level, and in which shipping costs exist between the two markets. Production of the good causes local pollution, and … regional governments can levy pollution taxes or impose environmental regulations. The firm decides. partly on the basis of … (regulatory) competitions are documented. If the disutility of pollution is high enough, each region will only want the polluting …
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theory and empirical evidence of induced innovation and the related literature on the effects of environmental policy on the … creation of new, environmentally friendly technology; the theory and empirics of environmental issues related to technology …
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