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Inferring Carbon Abatement Costs in Electricity Markets : A Revealed Preference Approach using the Shale Revolution

Cullen, Joseph A. - 2014

This paper examines how much carbon emissions from the electricity industry would decrease in response to a carbon price. We show how both carbon prices and cheap natural gas reduce, in a nearly identical manner, the historic cost advantage of coal-fired power plants. The shale revolution has...

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Urban Forests : Environmental Health Values and Risks

Xing, Jianwei; Hu, Zhiren; Xia, Fan; Xu, Jintao; Zou, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Forests accompany the cities we build. There are an estimated 5.5 billion urban trees in the United States. Globally, about 25 percent of urban land is covered by tree canopy. This study examines urban forests as a policy tool for air pollution mitigation. We study an afforestation program in...

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Can Falling Supply Explain the Rising Return to College for Younger Men? A Cohort-Based Analysis

Card, David - 2000

United Kingdom and Canada: both countries experienced similar slowdowns in the rate of growth of educational attainment …

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Tariffs and Growth in Late Nineteenth Century America

Irwin, Douglas A. - 2000

Were high import tariffs somehow related to the strong U.S. economic growth during the late nineteenth century? This paper examines this frequently mentioned but controversial question and investigates the channels by which tariffs could have promoted growth during this period. The paper shows...

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Human Resource Management and Performance in the Service Sector : The Case of Bank Branches

Bartel, Ann P. - 2000

This paper utilizes a unique dataset collected through site visits to extend the analysis of the relationship between the human resource management environment and establishment performance to the service sector, specifically the branch operations of a large bank. Case studies of several...

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Antidumping Investigations and the Pass-Through of Exchange Rates and Antidumping Duties

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 1999

We present a model that shows that exchange rate pass-through is likely to be substantially altered when firms face antidumping (AD) duties and that optimal pass-through of AD duties may be up to 200 percent. We examine both pass-through issues using monthly prices across 345 U.S.- imported...

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Occupational Gender Composition and Wages in Canada : 1987-1988

Baker, Michael - 1999

, from other jurisdictions. This omission is particularly disturbing in the case of Canada, which now has some of the most … occupational gender segregation in Canada and its consequences for wages. The sample period precedes many provincial pay equity … penalties in female jobs in Canada are generally much smaller than the estimates for the United States. Although there is some …

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Earnings Dynamics and Inequality among Canadian Men, 1976-1992 : Evidence from Longitudinal Income Tax Records

Baker, Michael - 1999

Several recent studies have found that earnings inequality in Canada has grown considerably since the late 1970's …

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Stock Repurchases in Canada : Performance and Strategic Trading

Ikenberry, David - 1999

During the 1980s, U.S. firms that announced stock repurchase programs earned favorable long-run returns. Recently, concerns have been raised regarding the robustness of these findings. This comes at a time of explosive worldwide growth in the adoption of repurchase programs. This study provides...

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Regional Nonadjustment and Fiscal Policy : Lessons for EMU

Obstfeld, Maurice - 1999

pattern of the United States. In this paper we compare the US with Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and also with Canada …, which is closer to European than the US is in its labor market and fiscal institutions. Europe's (and to some extent Canada …

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