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-O (EEIO) models include flows of both pollution and consumption of resources and energy. The present paper proposes a … complete characterization of the air pollution damage flows throughout the U.S. economy. Pollution intensity fell from 7 … percent of value-added in 1999 to 2 percent in 2011. The utility sector exhibits the highest ratio of pollution damage from …
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Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson factor endowments model. We draw quite heavily from trade theory, but develop a simple pollution …This paper sets out a general equilibrium pollution and trade model to provide a framework for examination of the trade … and environment debate. The model contains as special cases a canonical pollution haven model as well as the standard …
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This article studies how liability for environmentally harmful discharges affects the incentives of firms to engage in cleanup and invest in precautions, as well as the incentives of consumers to purchase the goods whose production leads to discharges. Our main conclusion is that making firms...
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builds a framework to detect whether local governments skip air pollution monitoring when they expect air quality to … deteriorate. We infer this expectation from air quality alerts - public advisories based on local governments' own pollution … individual pollution monitor in Jersey City, NJ, suspected of a deliberate shutdown during the 2013 "Bridgegate" traffic jam …
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Total pollution emitted by U.S. manufacturers declined over the past 30 years by about 60 percent, even though real … may result from increased net imports of pollution-intensive goods ("international trade"). I first show that most of the … decline in pollution from U.S. manufacturing has been the result of changing technology, rather than changes in the mix of …
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pollution are low. In this case RJVs fully share information and internalize the associated externality. However when the level …
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Carbon control policies in OECD countries commonly differentiate emission prices in favor of energy-intensive industries. While leakage provides a efficiency argument for differential emission pricing, the latter may be a disguised beggar-thy-neighbor policy to exploit terms of trade. Using an...
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Between 1990 and 2008, air pollution emissions from U.S. manufacturing fell by 60 percent despite a substantial … suggest that the implicit pollution tax that manufacturers face doubled between 1990 and 2008. These changes in environmental …
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Efficient responses to climate change require accurate estimates of both aggregate damages and where and to whom they occur. While specific case studies and simulations have suggested that climate change disproportionately affects the poor, large-scale direct evidence of the magnitude and...
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protection, substantially expanded public access to pollution information, and dramatically increased households' awareness about … pollution issues. These transformations, in turn, triggered a cascade of household behavioral changes, including increases in … online searches for pollution-related topics, adjustments in day-to-day consumption patterns to avoid pollution exposure, and …
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