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Are Chinese Markets for Manufactured Products More Competitive than in the US? : A Comparison of China -US Industrial Concentration Ratios
Wang, Jun - 2014
manufacturing sector for Chinese enterprises for 2002 and 2007. These are then compared to available estimates for the same years … and industrial classification for the US. These comparisons clearly point in the direction of China having sharply lower … concentration ratios, in the order of one half of the US for 4 firm ratios. One possible implication is that markets for Chinese …
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Industrial Productivity in a Hotter World : The Aggregate Implications of Heterogeneous Firm Investment in Air Conditioning
Zivin, Joshua Graff - 2016
empirical analysis of the impacts of heat on total factor productivity in U.S manufacturing yields findings broadly consistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455718
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The Competitiveness Impacts of Climate Change Mitigation Policies
Aldy, Joseph E. - 2011
-year panel of approximately 450 U.S. manufacturing industries. Second, we take these estimated relationships and use them … effectively imposes a $15 per ton carbon price. We find that energy-intensive manufacturing industries are more likely to …
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The Impacts of the Climate Change Levy on Manufacturing : Evidence from Microdata
Martin, Ralf - 2011
We estimate the impacts of the Climate Change Levy (CCL) on manufacturing plants using panel data from the UK …
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Minimax-Regret Climate Policy with Deep Uncertainty in Climate Modeling and Intergenerational Discounting
DeCanio, Stephen J.; Manski, Charles F.; Sanstad, Alan H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Integrated assessment models have become the primary tools for comparing climate policies that seek to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Policy comparisons have often been performed by considering a planner who seeks to make optimal trade-offs between the costs of carbon abatement and the...
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What Do You Think About Climate Finance?
Stroebel, Johannes; Wurgler, Jeffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We survey 861 finance academics, professionals, and public sector regulators and policy economists about climate finance topics. They identify regulatory risk as the top climate risk to businesses and investors over the next five years, but they view physical risks as the top risk over the next...
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Financing the Response to Climate Change : The Pricing and Ownership of U.S. Green Bonds
Baker, Malcolm - 2018
of the U.S. corporate and municipal green bonds markets, we study pricing and ownership patterns using a simple framework …
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Is Agricultural Production Becoming More or Less Sensitive to Extreme Heat? Evidence from U.S. Corn and Soybean Yields
Roberts, Michael J. - 2010
Extreme heat is the single best predictor of corn and soybean yields in the United States. While average yields have risen continuously since World War II, we find no evidence that relative tolerance to extreme heat has improved between 1950 and 2005. Climate change forecasts project a sharp...
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Climate Variability and Water Infrastructure : Historical Experience in the Western United States
Hansen, Zeynep K. - 2009
Greater historical perspective is needed to enlighten current debate about future human responses to higher temperatures and increased precipitation variation. We analyze the impact of climatic conditions and variability on agricultural production in five semi-arid western states. We assemble...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463091
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Analysis of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Tax Proposals
Metcalf, Gilbert E. - 2008
The U.S. Congress is considering a set of bills designed to limit the nation's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464666