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Voluntary Provision of Public Goods for Bads : A Theory of Environmental Offsets
Kotchen, Matthew J. - 2007
This paper examines voluntary provision of a public good that is motivated, in part, to compensate for other activities that diminish the public good. Markets for environmental offsets, such as those that promote carbon neutrality to minimize the impact of climate change, provide an increasingly...
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Public Goods Provision in the Presence of Heterogeneous Green Preferences
Jacobsen, Mark - 2014
We develop a model of the private provision of public goods in a world where agents face convex costs of provision. Consonant with prior empirical evidence, we introduce preference heterogeneity by allowing a subset of agents to exhibit pro-social behavior that reflects "green" preferences. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458400
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Rise of Bank Competition : Evidence from Banking Deregulation in China
Gao, Haoyu - 2019
Using proprietary individual level loan data, this paper explores the economic consequences of the 2009 bank entry deregulation in China. Such deregulation leads to higher screening standards, lower interest rates, and lower delinquency rates for corporate loans from entrant banks. Consequently,...
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Do Private Schools Provide Competition for Public Schools?
Hoxby, Caroline Minter - 1994
substantial private school enrollment. Such simple comparisons confound the effect of greater private school competitiveness with … that greater private school competitiveness significantly raises the quality of public schools, as measured by the … public schools react to greater competitiveness of private schools by paying higher teacher salaries …
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How Does State-Level Carbon Pricing in the United States Affect Industrial Competitiveness?
Casey, Brendan J. - 2020
Pricing carbon emissions from a jurisdiction could harm the competitiveness of local firms, causing the leakage of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479153
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Environmental Preferences and Technological Choices : Is Market Competition Clean or Dirty?
Aghion, Philippe - 2020
This paper investigates the joint effect of consumers' environmental concerns and product-market competition on firms' decisions whether to innovate "clean" or "dirty". We first develop a step-by-step innovation model to capture the basic intuition that socially responsible consumers induce...
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Costly Pollution Abatement, Competitiveness, and Plant Location Decisions
Markusen, James R. - 1996
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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The Effects of Environmental Regulation on the Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing
Greenstone, Michael - 2012
The economic costs of environmental regulations have been widely debated since the U.S. began to restrict pollution emissions more than four decades ago. Using detailed production data from nearly 1.2 million plant observations drawn from the 1972-1993 Annual Survey of Manufactures, we estimate...
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The Competitiveness Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation Policies
Aldy, Joseph E. - 2011
competitiveness effects - measured by the increase in net imports - are as large as 0.8 percent for the most energy …
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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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