Showing 1 - 10 of 3,171
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435101
policies to internalize externalities. Focusing on negative externalities from production (such as pollution), we consider …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334500
a substantial reduction in U.S. pollution from 1978-94 due entirely to a shift in the composition of U.S. manufacturing ….S. manufacturing, has also occurred among U.S. imports. Second, we find no evidence that pollution-intensive industries have been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468108
, species extinction and industrial pollution were rising. Recently it has been intensified by the creation of the World Trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468875
Despite the incentives of incumbent domestic listed corporations (DLCs) in the electricity generation industry, private equity, institutional investors, and foreign corporations have played an outsized role in financing the energy transition. These new entrants are twice as likely to create...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014635696
We use local projections to estimate the cross-country distribution of real GDP per capita growth impulse responses to global and idiosyncratic temperature shocks. Negative growth responses to global temperature at longer horizons are found for all Group of Seven countries while positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322715
prediction in an original data set of whether ethnic groups around the world traditionally prayed for rain. We find that prayer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322798
We estimate annual discontinuities in remotely-sensed crop yields at all international land borders and link them to changes in the economic freedom index by the Fraser Institute, a country-level measure of institutional quality. Each point of the ten-point index increases the discontinuity by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322813
International environment and development agencies increasingly emphasize external cofinancing when selecting projects to fund. This paper considers whether the emphasis on cofinancing helps promote institutional objectives, or creates perverse and inefficient incentives. We present a model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322845
This paper sets out a general equilibrium pollution and trade model to provide a framework for examination of the trade … and environment debate. The model contains as special cases a canonical pollution haven model as well as the standard … Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson factor endowments model. We draw quite heavily from trade theory, but develop a simple pollution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470178