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The Economic Value of Cultural Diversity: Evidence from US Cities

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Peri, Giovanni - 2004

We use data on wages and rents in different U.S. cities to assess the amenity effects on production and consumption of cultural diversity as measured by diversity of countries of birth of city residents. We show that US-born citizens living in metropolitan areas where the share of foreign-born...

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Cities and Cultures

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Peri, Giovanni - 2004

We investigate the existence of wage premium due to cultural diversity across US cities. Using census data from 1970 to 1990, we find that at the urban level richer diversity is systematically associated with higher average nominal wages for white US-born males. We measure cultural diversity in...

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Inducing environmental co-operation by the design of emission permits

Ohl, Cornelia - 2002

Strategies of international risk management, as the implementation of tradable emission permits, feed back to the incentive structure of a treaty, like the Kyoto Protocol. Discussing the Kyoto Protocol the question was: Should there be any restrictions on the trading of emission permits or not?...

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A Comparison Between Shale Gas in China and Unconventional Fuel Development in the United States: Health, Water and Environmental Risks

Farah, Paolo D.; Tremolada, Riccardo - 2013

China is appraised to have the world's largest exploitable reserves of shale gas, although several legal, regulatory, environmental and investment-related issues will likely restrain its scope. China's capacity to successfully face these hurdles and produce commercial shale gas will have a...

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Political institutions and the design of environmental policy in a federal system with asymmetric information

Ulph, Alistair M. - 1998

Policy debates on trade and the environment frequently refer to a need for countries linked by trade to co-ordinate, or even harmonise, their purely domestic environmental policies. Underlying this argument is a concern that national governments will not fully internalise environmental...

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Market power, productivity and the EU single market program: An ex-post assessment on Italian firm level data

Bottasso, Anna; Sembenelli, Alessandro - 1998

This paper provides empirical evidence on the impact the EU Single Market Program has exerted on market power and total factor productivity in a large sample of Italian firms. By splitting the full sample on the basis of the ex-ante likelihood of being affected by the removal of non-tariff...

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Tying governments' hands: Why harmonisation of environmental policies may be desirable

Johal, Surjinder; Ulph, Alistair M. - 1998

welfare maximising governments. In this paper we assume that governments at state and federal level can be influenced by … environmental damages relative to its weight in social welfare. As in our earlier work, the true value of environmental damage costs … welfare, but based on the expected value of damage costs (social pooling). In our model social pooling implies harmonisation …

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Environmental dumping, transboundary pollution and asymmetric information: Some insights for the environmental regulation of the European electricity market

Bigano, Andrea - 1999

In this paper we extend a model by A. Ulph (1997) on the relationship between free trade agreements, environmental regulation and trade under imperfect competition. Ulph's model focused on the effectiveness of harmonisation policies against ecological dumping. It turned out that harmonised...

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Integrating climate policies in the European environment: A policy report

Carraro, Carlo; Goria, Alessandra - 1999

This report summarises the main ideas, proposals, scientific achievements, consensus and conflicting issues that emerged at the Second EFIEA Policy Workshop, held at Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Palazzo delle Stelline, Corso Magenta 63, Milan, Italy, March 4th-6th, 1999. EFIEA, the European...

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Carbon emissions trading and equity in international agreements

Bosello, Francesco; Roson, Roberto - 1999

centralised social welfare maximisation in which the function to be maximised, however, normally differs from the social function …

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