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performance, and environmental innovation. Reducing COD levels by 10% relative to 2005 levels is an aim of the Chinese 11th Five … exists an evident heterogeneous effect across industries with different pollution intensities. Stricter environmental …
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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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This paper uses both theory and empirical work to examine the effect of environmental regulations on trade flows. We develop a simple economic model to demonstrate how unobserved heterogeneity, endogeneity and aggregation issues bias measurements of the relationship between regulatory costs and...
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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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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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industrial pollution by 8% for the average neighborhood. However, industrial relocation is costly for firms, significantly …
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We conducted a nationwide field experiment in China to evaluate the direct and indirect impacts of assigning firms to … 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 …
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effect on the performance of domestic firms relative to their foreign competitors, by stimulating domestic innovation. We … examine the stylized facts regarding environmental expenditures and innovation in a panel of manufacturing industries. We find …
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, fuel economy standards for automobiles, renewable portfolio standards, low carbon fuel standards, and--most recently--China … substantial gains could arise from shifting two programs, China's new national carbon market (~60% gain) and the California Low …
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