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countries are smaller for industries with higher emission productivity. Our theory and empirical results point to the importance …
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public or private citizen appeals treatments when they violate pollution standards. There are three main findings. First …, public appeals to the regulator through social media substantially reduce violations and pollution emissions, while private … appeals increases regulatory effort, suggesting visibility as an important mechanism. Third, treatment pollution reductions …
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policies to internalize externalities. Focusing on negative externalities from production (such as pollution), we consider …
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indicates that strengthening a country's institutions decreases its pollution through relocating dirty industries abroad, though … increases pollution in other countries. Fifth, cross-country differences in the composition of output between clean and dirty … countries have relatively high pollution levels …
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with higher pollution potential. Furthermore, baseline disagreement with more subordinates' recommendations reduces …
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This paper tests whether differences across states in pollution regulation affect the location of manufacturing …, including business pollution abatement spending, regulatory enforcement activity, congressional pro-environment voting, and an … unionization rates. However, a subsample of high-pollution industries, which might have been expected to show much larger impacts …
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Output-based carbon regulations--such as fuel economy standards and the rate-based standards in the Clean Power Plan--create well-known incentives to inefficiently increase output. Similar distortions are created by attribute-based regulations. This paper demonstrates that, despite these...
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noncompliant counties. Third, yields are substantially higher for bonds from counties just above the pollution threshold relative …
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This paper investigates the impact of a pioneering pollution reduction program, the Ecological Compensation Initiative …-in-differences empirical design and find strong evidence that the ECI mitigates the spillover effect of water pollution at the province … polluting industries. This initiative also reduces upstream firms' output and pollution intensity relative to downstream firms …
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The 'pollution haven' hypothesis refers to the possibility that multinational firms, particularly those engaged in … the effect at the firm level. In addition, environmental standard of the host countries and pollution intensity of the … transition economies. With these improvements, we find some support for the 'pollution haven' hypothesis, but the overall …
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