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We began this project interested in collecting real-world' insight about how environmental regulation affects the paper industry. Based on conversations with people in the industry and visits to paper mills, we formulated several hypotheses related to technology choice in new mills and the...
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quantify the theory, we bring together patent data, survey data on environmental values, and competition measures. Using a …
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US energy sector. The model's quantitative implications match a range of moments not targeted in the estimation quite …
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I generalize a benchmark model of directed technical change to allow innovations and factors of production (here energy … implementation to climate change policy, transitions from coal to gas and then to renewable energy occur in laissez-faire. Optimal … policy uses a subsidy for clean R&D to hasten the transition to renewable energy and an increasing emission tax to control …
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theory and in practice. A number of factors can call the independence property into question theoretically, including market …
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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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I examine Ronald Coase's criticism of standard regulatory and tax policies to address environmental externalities. I …
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This paper builds two simple general equilibrium models to demonstrate the equivalence between the Pigovian tax and the combination of a presumptive tax and an environmental subsidy. A presumptive tax is a tax that is imposed under the presumption that all production uses a dirty technology or...
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Increasing managed care activity could influence the adoption and diffusion of new medical technologies. This paper empirically examines the relationship between HMO market share and the diffusion of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) equipment. Across markets, increases in HMO market share are...
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Technology change is modeled as the result of decisions of individuals and groups of individuals to adopt more advanced technologies. The structure is calibrated to the U.S. and postwar Japan growth experiences. Using this calibrated structure we explore how large the disparity in the effective...
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