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Technology and the Effectiveness of Regulatory Programs Over Time : Vehicle Emissions and Smog Checks with a Changing Fleet
Sanders, Nicholas J. - 2017
Personal automobile emissions are a major source of urban air pollution. Many U.S. states control emissions through mandated vehicle inspections and repairs. But there is little empirical evidence directly linking mandated inspections, maintenance, and local air pollution levels. To test for a...
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Stoking the Fires? Co2 Emissions and Economic Growth
Holtz-Eakin, Douglas - 1992
Over the past decade, concern over potential global warming has focused attention on the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and there is an active debate concerning the desirability of reducing emissions. At the heart of this debate is the future path of both greenhouse gas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474715
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Stochastic Technical Progress, Nearly Smooth Trends and Distinct Business Cycles
Rotemberg, Julio J. - 2002
This paper investigates whether it is possible to entertain simultaneously two attractive views about US GDP. The first … is that long term growth in US GDP is attributable to an empirically plausible specification of random technical progress …. The second is that deviations of GDP from a fitted smooth 'trend' are mostly attributable to shocks that have only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469795
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Technology in the Great Divergence
Clark, Gregory - 2001
In this paper, we examine the changes in per-capita income and productivity from 1700 to modern times, and show four things: (1) that incomes per capita diverged more around the world after 1800 than before; (2) that the source of this divergence was increasing differences in the efficiency of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470120
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Reexamining the Empirical Evidence for an Environmental Kuznets Curve
Harbaugh, William - 2000
This paper uses an updated and revised panel data set on ambient air pollution in cities world-wide to examine the robustness of the evidence for the existence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between national income and pollution. We test the sensitivity of the pollution-income relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471050
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The Real Effects of Mandatory CSR Disclosure on Emissions : Evidence from the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program
Yang, Lavender; Muller, Nicholas Z.; Liang, Pierre Jinghong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We examine the real effects of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) on electric power plants in the United States. Starting in 2010, the GHGRP requires both the reporting of greenhouse gas emissions by facilities emitting more than 25,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year to the...
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An Economic Analysis of U.S Public Transit Carbon Emissions Dynamics
Huang, Robert; Kahn, Matthew E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Urban public transit agencies spend billions of dollars each year on workers, durable capital and energy to supply transportation services. During a time of rising concern about climate change, the urban public transit sector has not significantly reduced its carbon footprint. Using data for the...
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Do Pollution Markets Harm Low Income and Minority Communities? Ranking Emissions Distributions Generated by California's RECLAIM Program
Mansur, Erin T. - 2019
We compare the spatial distribution of emissions from Southern California's pollution-trading program with that of a counterfactual command-and-control policy. We develop a normatively significant metric with which to rank the various distributions in a manner consistent with an explicit...
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Using Taxes to Meet an Emission Target
Harris, Robert I. - 2020
A sizeable number of papers beginning with Roberts and Spence (1976) have studied the use of price floors and ceilings (or "collars") to manage prices in tradable permit markets. In contrast, economists have only recently begun examining polices to manage quantities under a pollution tax....
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Modeling the Impacts of Agricultural Support Policies on Emissions from Agriculture
Laborde, David - 2020
To understand the impacts of support programs on global emissions, this paper considers the impacts of domestic subsidies, price distortions at the border, and investments in emission-reducing technologies on global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture. In a step towards a full...
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