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Pollution Across Chinese Provinces
Co, Catherine Yap; Kong, Fanying; Lin, Shuanglin - 2008
industrial (waste water and dust) pollution. Auxiliary regressions show that conditional on income, northern provinces have lower … industrial waste water pollution; non-coastal and provinces with smaller secondary industry shares have lower industrial (waste … water, COD, and dust) pollution; provinces with smaller state-owned enterprises share have lower industrial COD pollution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807629
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Trade in Environmental Goods: Empirical Exploration of Direct and Indirect Effects on Pollution by Country’s Trade Status
Zugravu-Soilita, Natalia - 2017
recurrently found to face increased pollution (in particular CO2 emissions) due to direct scale-composition effects of trade in … EGs, the EGs’ net exporters are more likely to see their local pollution to decrease, in particular thanks to income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816759
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Satisfaction with Democracy and Collective Action Problems: The Case of the Environment
Halla, Martin; Schneider, Friedrich; Wagner, Alexander - 2008
Using modern methods for analyzing multi-level data, we find that, by and large, citizens of OECD countries are more satisfied with the way democracy works in their country if more environmental policies are in place and if environmental quality is higher. We also document that parents care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294929
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The Incidence of Pollution Control Policies
Parry, Ian W.H.; Sigman, Hilary; Walls, Margaret - 2005
Economic evaluations of pollution control policies have traditionally focused on pure efficiency effects either a … to summarize what is actually known, and not known, about the incidence of benefits and costs from pollution taxes, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263267
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Allocation and Ex Ante Cost Efficiency of a Swedish Subsidy for Environmental Sustainability: The Local Investment Program
Vredin Johansson, Maria - 2004
We evaluate the allocation rationality and ex ante cost efficiency of a major Swedish investment subsidy program, the "Local Investment Program" (LIP). The LIP, effective between 1998-2002, had dual purposes: to step up the pace at which Sweden transforms into an ecologically sustainable society...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321603
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What does it take to sell environmental policy? An empirical analysis of referendum data
Halbheer, Daniel; Niggli, Sarah; Schmutzler, Armin - 2005
We analyze the factors that influence the support for environmental policy proposals. Swiss referendum data show that proposals obtain more yes-votes if they do not restrict consumption possibilities directly, if they are endorsed by the largest business association, if environmental preferences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315545
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Letting states do the dirty work: State responsibility for federal environmental regulation
Sigman, Hilary - 2002
address its role. To fill this gap, this paper explores the empirical determinants of authorization for water pollution and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318356
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Insider ownership and corporate performance: evidence from Germany
Kaserer, Christoph; Moldenhauer, Benjamin - 2006
In this paper we address the question whether insider ownership affects corporate performance. Evidence coming from studies dealing with Anglo-Saxon countries is rather inconclusive, especially because it seems that results are significantly affected by endogeneity. Economically, this is due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305692
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Procurement Bidding in First-Price and Second-Price Sealed Bid Common Value Auctions
Lunander, Anders - 1999
Within the framework of the common value model, we examine the magnitude of the difference in expected outcome between first-price and second-price sealed bid auctions. The study is limited to two empirical specifications of bidders' signals: Weibull and normal distribution. The optimal bid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321779
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Signaling credibility - choosing optimal debt and international reserves
Aizenman, Joshua; Fernández-Ruiz, Jorge - 2006
This paper evaluates the challenges facing developing countries when there is uncertainty about the policy maker type. We consider a country characterized by volatile output, inelastic demand for fiscal outlays, high tax collection costs, and sovereign risk, where future output depends on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322730