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Contingent Trade Agreements
Harstad, Bård - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
cause Brazil's agricultural area to expand by 27%, but this expansion can be avoided if the EU and the US offer a CTA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544671
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The Conflict Over Environmental Regulation in the United States : Origins, Outcomes, and Comparisons With the EU and Other Regions
Manheim, Frank T. (contributor) - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013521083
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Innovation, Employment and Growth Policy Issues in the EU and the US
Welfens, Paul J. J. (contributor);  … - 2009
The EU and the U.S. confront distinct factor market dynamics and common policy challenges. Labor market developments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013521217
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Making Teaching Last : Long-Run Value-Added
Gilraine, Michael; Pope, Nolan G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Teacher value-added (VA) measures how teachers improve their students' contemporaneous test scores. Many teachers, however, argue that contemporaneous test scores are a poor proxy for their permanent influence on students. This paper considers a new VA measure -- 'long-run VA' -- that captures...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012794583
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The Quality of Our Financial Markets : Taking Stock of Where We Stand
Schwartz, Robert A. - 2013
Quality of Our Financial Markets -- High Frequency Trading: Friend or Foe? -- Mid-Day Address -- May 6: Lessons Learned … that mean that market quality has improved? That is the key question addressed in this book, titled after the Baruch … College Conference, The Quality of Our Financial Markets: Taking Stock of Where We Stand. Featuring contributions from a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014016378
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Energy, Groundwater, and Crop Choice
Burlig, Fiona; Preonas, Louis; Woerman, Matt - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Groundwater is a key resource for agricultural production globally. Increasingly rapid aquifer drawdowns--as well as the policies intended to increase their sustainability--increase costs to agricultural producers, with unknown consequences. This paper provides the first large-scale empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510584
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On the Green Interest Rate
Muller, Nicholas Z. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper demonstrates how a central bank might operationalize an expanded role inclusive of managing risks from environmental pollution. The analysis introduces the green interest rate (rg) which depends on temporal changes in the pollution intensity of output. This policy instrument...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585375
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Headwinds and Tailwinds : Implications of Inefficient Retail Energy Pricing for Energy Substitution
Borenstein, Severin; Bushnell, James B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
space heating, water heating, and electric vehicles under actual pricing versus setting price at SMC. We find that moving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616566
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Designing Fuel-Economy Standards in Light of Electric Vehicles
Gillingham, Kenneth - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Electric vehicles are declining in cost so rapidly that they may claim a large share of the vehicle market by 2030. This paper examines a set of practical regulatory design considerations for fuel-economy standards or greenhouse gas standards in the context of highly uncertain electric vehicle...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599357
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Decarbonization and Electrification in the Long Run
Holland, Stephen P.; Mansur, Erin; Yates, Andrew J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Decarbonization and electrification will require a transformed electricity grid. Our long-run model of entry and exit of generation and storage capacity captures crucial aspects of the electricity industry such as time-varying demand for electricity, intermittency of renewables, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210110