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Rethinking the Informal Economy and the Hugo Effect

Pappadà, Francesco; Rogoff, Kenneth S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper offers a new approach to measuring the size of the informal economy based on VAT data for the European Union. Although data intensive, our EVADE measure is simpler and more transparent than existing measures. EVADE also shows more variation across countries of Europe than earlier...

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China's Nationwide CO2 Emissions Trading System : A General Equilibrium Assessment

Goulder, Lawrence H.; Long, Xianling; Qu, Chenfei; Zhang, Da - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

China's recently launched CO2 emissions trading system, already the world's largest, aims to contribute importantly toward global reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The system, a tradable performance standard (TPS), differs importantly from cap and trade (C&T), the principal emissions...

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EU Accession and Foreign Owned Firms in Bulgaria

Feliciano, Zadia M. - 2016

Bulgaria signed the Europe Association Agreement (EAA) in 1995 and the European Union accession treaty in 2005 …. Accession had the effect of increasing FDI in Bulgaria. We analyze World Bank BEEPS firm level data for 2007 to better … understand characteristics and performance of foreign firms in Bulgaria. We estimate linear probability and logit models to …

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Measuring Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture : An Equilibrium Perspective on Supply-Side Approaches

Gouel, Christophe - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

A popular approach for estimating climate change impacts on agriculture is to rely on supply-side reduced-form regressions. These methods, which include the Ricardian approach, focus on how farmers and agricultural land market react to changes in climatic conditions, under the implicit...

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Is Broader Always Better? Preexisting Distortions, Emissions Elasticities, and the Scope of Emissions Pricing

Goulder, Lawrence H. - 2024

Economists often regard broad-based carbon pricing (whether in the form of a carbon tax or cap and trade) as the most efficient policy to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Relative to a narrower policy that exempts some emissions sources, a broader policy is often favored because it can exploit...

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Trade and security

Anderson, James E.; Marcouiller, Douglas - 1997

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Estimating the General Equilibrium Benefits of Large Policy Changes : The Clean Air Act Revisited

Sieg, Holger - 2000

This paper reports the first comprehensive approach for measuring the general equilibrium willingness to pay for large changes in air quality. It is based on a well defined locational equilibrium model. The approach allows estimation of households' indirect utility function and the underlying...

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Free Trade and Global Warming : A Trade Theory View of the Kyoto Protocol

Copeland, Brian R. - 2000

This paper demonstrates how three important results in environmental economics, true under mild conditions in closed economies, are false or need serious amendment in a world with international trade in goods. Since the three results we highlight have framed much of the ongoing discussion and...

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Neutralizing the Adverse Industry Impacts of CO2 Abatement Policies : What Does it Cost?

Bovenberg, A. Lans - 2000

The most cost-effective policies for achieving CO2 abatement (e.g., carbon taxes) fail to get off the ground politically because of unacceptable distributional consequences. This paper explores CO2 abatement policies designed to address distributional concerns. Using an intertemporal numerical...

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Optimal Monetary Impulse-Response Functions in a Matching Model

Katzman, Brett - 1999

The effects on ex ante optima of a lag in seeing monetary realizations are studied using a matching model of money. The main new ingredient in the model is meetings in which producers have more information than consumers. A consequence is that increases in the amount of money that occur with...

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