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Trade and the Greenhouse Gas Emissions from International Freight Transport
Cristea, Anca D. - 2015
production emissions per dollar of exports are 16 percent below the world average, but once we include transport US emissions per … greenhouse gas emissions associated with output versus international transportation of traded goods. International transport is … responsible for 33 percent of world-wide trade-related emissions, and over 75 percent of emissions for major manufacturing …
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The External Costs of Transporting Petroleum Products by Pipelines and Rail : Evidence from Shipments of Crude Oil from North Dakota
Clay, Karen - 2017
This paper constructs new estimates of the air pollution and greenhouse gas costs from long-distance movement of petroleum products by rail and pipelines. While crude oil transportation has generated intense policy debate about rail and pipeline spills and accidents, important externalities –...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947021
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Trade, Growth and the Environment
Copeland, Brian R.; Taylor, M. Scott - 2022
, species extinction and industrial pollution were rising. Recently it has been intensified by the creation of the World Trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013322309
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The Environmental Kuznets Curve : Exploring a Fresh Specification
Bradford, David F.; Fender, Rebecca; Shore, Stephen H. - 2021
Using a new specification, we reanalyze the data on worldwide environmental quality investigated by Gene Grossman and Alan Krueger in a well-known paper on the environmental Kuznets curve (which postulates an inverse U shaped relationship between income level and pollution). The new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013228239
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Economic Growth and the Environment
Grossman, Gene M.; Krueger, Alan B. - 2021
Using data assembled by the Global Environmental Monitoring System we examine the reduced-form relationship between various environmental indicators and the level of a country's per capita income. Our study covers four types of indicators: concentrations of urban air pollution; measures of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244746
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Is Trade Good or Bad for the Environment? Sorting Out the Causality
Frankel, Jeffrey A.; Rose, Andrew Kenan - 2021
What is the effect of trade on a country's environment, for a given level of GDP? Some have observed an apparent positive correlation between openness to trade and measures of environmental quality. But this could be due to endogeneity of trade, rather than causality. This paper uses exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013215340
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Does Pollution Drive Achievement? The Effect of Traffic Pollution on Academic Performance
Heissel, Jennifer - 2019
We examine the effect of school traffic pollution on student outcomes by leveraging variation in wind patterns for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012893980
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Reducing Petroleum Consumption from Transportation
Knittel, Christopher R. - 2012
The United States consumed more petroleum-based liquid fuel per capita than any other OECD-high-income country - 30 percent more than the second-highest country (Canada) and 40 percent more than the third-highest (Luxemburg). This paper examines the main channels through which reductions in U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112835
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A Spatial Approach to Energy Economics
Moreno Cruz, Juan Bernardo - 2014
We develop a spatial model of energy exploitation where energy sources are differentiated by their geographic location and energy density. The spatial setting creates a scaling law that magnifies the importance of differences across energy sources. As a result, renewable sources twice as dense,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064302
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Corporate Governance, Economic Entrenchment and Growth
Morck, Randall - 2013
Around the world, large corporations usually have controlling owners, who are usually very wealthy families. Outside …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754592