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An Input-Output Model of the U.S. Economy with Pollution Externality
Muller, Nicholas Z. - 2016
-O (EEIO) models include flows of both pollution and consumption of resources and energy. The present paper proposes a … complete characterization of the air pollution damage flows throughout the U.S. economy. Pollution intensity fell from 7 … percent of value-added in 1999 to 2 percent in 2011. The utility sector exhibits the highest ratio of pollution damage from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996385
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Willingness to Pay for Low Water Footprint Food Choices During Drought
Krovetz, Hannah - 2017
In the context of recent California drought years, we investigate empirically whether consumers are willing to pay for more efficient water usage in the production of four California agricultural products. We implement an internet survey choice experiment for avocados, almonds, lettuce, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954451
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Why is Pollution from U.S. Manufacturing Declining? The Roles of Environmental Regulation, Productivity, and Trade
Shapiro, Joseph S. - 2015
Between 1990 and 2008, air pollution emissions from U.S. manufacturing fell by 60 percent despite a substantial … suggest that the implicit pollution tax that manufacturers face doubled between 1990 and 2008. These changes in environmental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029557
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The Economics of Residential Solid Waste Management
Kinnaman, Thomas C.; Fullerton, Don - 2021
This paper provides a broad overview of recent trends in solid waste and recycling, related public policy issues, and … the economics literature devoted to these topics. Public attention to solid waste and recycling has increased dramatically … makers choose the efficient mix of policy levers to regulate solid waste and recycling activities. Economists have also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220080
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Accounting for Firm Heterogeneity within U.S. Industries : Extended Supply-Use Tables and Trade in Value Added Using Enterprise and Establishment Level Data
Fetzer, James - 2018
This paper presents experimental tables created by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis comparing industry-specific shares of the components of total output of globally engaged firms located in the United States that are part of a multinational enterprise with those of firms that are part of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908154
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The ‘China Shock’, Exports and U.S. Employment : A Global Input-Output Analysis
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2017
We quantify the impact on U.S. employment from imports and exports during 1995-2011, using the World Input-Output Database. We find that the growth in U.S. exports led to increased demand for 2 million jobs in manufacturing, 0.5 million in resource industries, and a remarkable 4.1 million jobs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943197
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The Impact of Regional and Sectoral Productivity Changes on the U.S. Economy
Caliendo, Lorenzo - 2014
We study the impact of intersectoral and interregional trade linkages in propagating disaggregated productivity changes to the rest of the economy. Using regional and industry data we obtain the aggregate, regional and sectoral elasticities of measured TFP, GDP, and employment to regional and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013053162
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Misallocation, Economic Growth, and Input-Output Economics
Jones, Charles I. - 2011
One of the most important developments in the growth literature of the last decade is the enhanced appreciation of the role that the misallocation of resources plays in helping us understand income differences across countries. Misallocation at the micro level typically reduces total factor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130964
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Quantifying International Production Sharing at the Bilateral and Sector Levels
Wang, Zhi - 2013
This paper generalizes the gross exports accounting framework, initially proposed by Koopman, Wang, and Wei (2014) for a country's aggregate exports, to one at the sector, bilateral, and bilateral-sector levels. Such a generalization requires a conceptual distinction between value added exports...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072571
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Internalizing Global Value Chains : A Firm-Level Analysis
Alfaro, Laura - 2015
In recent decades, advances in information and communication technology and falling trade barriers have led firms to retain within their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the extent of control to exert...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014670