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Adapting to Flood Risk : Evidence from a Panel of Global Cities

Gandhi, Sahil; Kahn, Matthew E.; Kochhar, Rajat; Lall, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Urban flooding poses danger to people and places. People can adapt to this risk by moving to safer areas or by … investing in private self-protection. Places can offset some of the risk through urban planning and infrastructure investment …. By constructing a global city data set that covers the years 2012 to 2018, we test several flood risk adaptation …

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Long-Term Macroeconomic Effects of Climate Change : A Cross-Country Analysis

Kahn, Matthew E. - 2019

world real GDP per capita by 7.22 percent by 2100. On the other hand, abiding by the Paris Agreement, thereby limiting the …

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Do Some Enterprise Zones Create Jobs?

Kolko, Jed - 2009

We study how the employment effects of enterprise zones vary with their location, implementation, and administration, based on evidence from California. We use new establishment-level data and geographic mapping methods, coupled with a survey of enterprise zone administrators. Overall, the...

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When Is Quality of Financial System a Source of Comparative Advantage?

Ju, Jiandong - 2008

Does finance follow the real economy, or the other way around? This paper unites the two competing schools of thought in a general equilibrium framework. Our key result is that there are threshold effects defined by a set of deep institutional parameters (cost of financial intermediation,...

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Domestic Institutions and the Bypass Effect of Financial Globalization

Ju, Jiandong - 2007

the world than many developing countries. A noteworthy feature of this theory is that financial and property rights …

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Intrinsic Openness and Endogenous Institutional Quality

Jiao, Yang - 2017

Quality of public institutions has been recognized as a crucial determinant of macroeconomic outcomes. We propose that a country's intrinsic level of openness (due to population size, geography, or exogenous trade opportunities) affects its incentives in investing in better institutions. We...

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An Economic Analysis of U.S Public Transit Carbon Emissions Dynamics

Huang, Robert; Kahn, Matthew E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Urban public transit agencies spend billions of dollars each year on workers, durable capital and energy to supply transportation services. During a time of rising concern about climate change, the urban public transit sector has not significantly reduced its carbon footprint. Using data for the...

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Urban Policy Effects on Carbon Mitigation

Kahn, Matthew E. - 2010

The geographical location of economic activity within the United States has important implications for carbon mitigation. If households clustered in California's cities rather than in more humid southern cities such as Memphis and Houston, then the average household carbon footprint would be...

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The Greenness of China : Household Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Urban Development

Zheng, Siqi - 2009

China urbanization is associated with both increases in per-capita income and greenhouse gas emissions. This paper uses micro data to rank 74 major Chinese cities with respect to their household carbon footprint. We find that the "greenest" cities based on this criterion are Huaian and Suqian...

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Carbon Geography : The Political Economy of Congressional Support for Legislation Intended to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Production

Cragg, Michael I. - 2009

Stringent regulation for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions will impose different costs across geographical regions. Low-carbon, environmentalist states, such as California, would bear less of the incidence of such regulation than high-carbon Midwestern states. Such anticipated costs are likely...

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