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Inequality and climate change : two problems, one solution?
Nicolli, Francesco; Gilli, Marianna; Vona, Francesco - 2022
This paper re-examines the relationship between per capita income, inequality, and per capita emissions while accounting for nonhomotheticity in green preferences and nonlinearities in the impact of economic growth on GHG emissions. Theoretically, our research is motivated by the fact that if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013463702
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Ownership and Control in Outsourcing to China : Estimating the Property-Rights Theory of the Firm
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2004
In this paper, we develop a simple model of international outsourcing and apply it to processing trade in China. We observe China's processing exports broken down by who owns the plant and by who controls the inputs the plant processes. Multinational firms engaged in export processing in China...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468496
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Analysis of national pollutant release inventory data on toxic emissions by industry
Olewiler, Nancy D.; Dawson, Kelli - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000167943
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Pollution across Chinese provinces
Co, Catherine Yap (contributor); Kong, Fanying (contributor) - 2008
industrial (waste water and dust) pollution. Auxiliary regressions show that conditional on income, northern provinces have lower … industrial waste water pollution; non-coastal and provinces with smaller secondary industry shares have lower industrial (waste … water, COD, and dust) pollution; provinces with smaller state-owned enterprises share have lower industrial COD pollution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003768015
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Toxic exposure in America : estimating fetal and infant health outcomes
Agarwal, Nikhil; Banternghansa, Chanont; Bui, Linda T. M. - 2009
outcomes varies across pollution media: air pollution has a larger impact on health outcomes than either water or land. And …, within air pollution, releases of carcinogens are particularly problematic for infant health outcomes. We do not, however …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831831
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Long-term nexus of industrial pollution and income in China
Qin, Duo - 2010
This study examines the long-run relationship between industrial pollution and income in China using provincial panel …; the heterogeneity cautions us against simple panel model specification. -- Environmental Kuznets curve ; Pollution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003933926
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Local communities in front of big external investors : an opportunity or a risk?
Antoci, Angelo; Russu, Paolo; Ticci, Elisa - 2010
In the current age of trade and financial openness, local economies in developing countries are becoming increasingly exposed to external investments. The objective of the proposed two-sector model with environmental externalities is to provide an insight into the interaction between external...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008746858
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Voluntary cleanups and redevelopment potential : lessons from Baltimore, Maryland
Alberini, Anna; Guignet, Dennis - 2008
Policy has increasingly shifted towards economic incentives and liability attenuation for promoting cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated sites, but little is known about the effectiveness of such policies. An example of such legislation is State Voluntary Cleanup Programs (VCPs), which were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008798523
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The relationship between environmental efficiency and manufacturing firm's growth
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Cainelli, Giulio; Zoboli, Roberto - 2008
This paper investigates the empirical link between emission intensity and economic growth, using a very large data set of 61,219 Italian manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2004. As a measure of lagged environmental performance (efficiency) at firm level we exploit NAMEA sector for CO2,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799164
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Regional and sector environmental efficiency empirical evidence from structural shift-share analysis of NAMEA data
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montini, Anna - 2009
This paper provides new empirical evidence on regional-national disparities in environmental efficiency, based on case studies of Italy and the Lazio region, which includes the city of Rome. Shift-share analyses provide evidence on the drivers of environmental efficiency and on sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008809696