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Do US air pollution offset markets disproportionately relocate pollution to or from low-income or minority communities …? Concerns about an equal distribution of environmental quality across communities—environmental justice—have growing policy … plants. We find little association of offset prices or offset-induced movements in pollution with the share of a community …
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The US-Mexico free-trade debate included some theoretical assertions that were then used as arguments against trade and investment liberalization. (1) Trade liberalization increases the degree to which production is internationally relocated in response to environmental restrictions...
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theoretical and empirical research to evaluate the effects of such reforms on tax revenue, pollution emissions, economic …
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exists an evident heterogeneous effect across industries with different pollution intensities. Stricter environmental …
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This paper explores the empirical effects of decentralization on environmental quality by studying water pollution in … rivers around the world. It examines the level of pollution and variation in pollution across jurisdictions within a country …, for both a local and a regional pollutant. Federal countries exhibit greater interjurisdictional variation in pollution …
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For political and practical reasons, environmental regulations sometimes treat point source polluters, such as power plants, differently from mobile source polluters, such as vehicles. This paper measures the extent of this regulatory asymmetry in the case of nitrogen oxides (NOx), the criteria...
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Carbon control policies in OECD countries commonly differentiate emission prices in favor of energy-intensive industries. While leakage provides a efficiency argument for differential emission pricing, the latter may be a disguised beggar-thy-neighbor policy to exploit terms of trade. Using an...
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costs of regulation and seriously militate against pollution abatement policies that do not raise revenue. If the marginal … environmental benefits from pollution reductions are below a certain threshold value, any amount of pollution abatement through non …
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The computable general equilibrium models used in the literature tend to be a bit of a black box. This paper provides some intuition behind what goes on in these black boxes by laying out a simple general equilibrium model and intuitively explaining what lies behind the demand for emissions. It...
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. Demand for these goods shifts due to the introduction of pollution regulations that deliver improvements in ecosystem …
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