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Electric utilities can reduce sulfur dioxide emissions through a variety of strategies such as adding scrubbers, switching to low- sulfur coal, or shifting output between generating plants with different emissions. The cost of achieving a given emission target can be minimized using a market for...
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Intertemporal tradability allows an emissions market to reduce abatement costs. We study intertemporal trading of nitrogen oxides permits in the RECLAIM program in Southern California. A theoretical model captures the program's key intertemporal features: two overlapping permit cycles, two...
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efforts in regulating power plant emissions, our study is aimed at broadening the scope of cross-border pollution analysis by …
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This paper examines unintended effects of air quality regulation on decisions of major polluters, using plant data for 1963 to 1992. A key regulatory tool since 1978 is the annual designation of county air quality attainment status, where non-attainment status triggers specific equipment...
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the country level with data on pollution intensity at the industry level to show that countries with laxer environmental …. We propose an instrument for environmental regulation based on meteorological determinants of pollution dispersion identi …...ed by the atmospheric pollution literature. We find that the effect of environmental regulation on the pattern of trade is …
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-level pollution abatement, coal consumption, and productivity growth. We find that higher coal prices reduced coal use within …'s Supreme Court required 17 cities to enact Action Plans to reduce air pollution through a variety of command-and-control (CAC … pollution emissions at the district level. CAC regulations did not affect within-establishment pollution control investment or …
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" regulations to maintain recent pollution progress. We document that China's cross-city Environmental Kuznets Curve shifts as a … heavily polluted Chinese cities. If clean air is a valued experience good, then this short-term reduction in pollution in … spring 2020 could have persistent medium-term effects on reducing urban pollution levels as cities adopt new "blue sky …
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China. The model is estimated using China Population Census Data along with PM2.5 satellite data. Our study provides new … equilibrium sorting model to the valuation of non-market amenities in China. We employ two novel instrumental variables based on … coal-fired electricity generation and wind direction to address the endogeneity of local air pollution. Results suggest …
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framework to product-by-store level scanner data on air purifier sales in China, we provide among the first revealed preference … estimates of WTP for clean air in developing countries. A spatial discontinuity in air pollution created by the Huai River … heating policy enables us to analyze household responses to long-run exposure to pollution. Our model allows heterogeneity in …
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Urban China's high levels of ambient air pollution both lowers quality of life and raises mortality risk. China … some of the pollution exposure risk. Using a unique data set of Internet purchases, we document that households invest more … in masks and air filter products when ambient pollution levels exceed key alert thresholds. Richer people are more likely …
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