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larger steady-state pollution stock. Moreover, the increase of environmental damages because of the increase in the pollution …
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Bio-energy has the potential to be a key mitigation option if combined with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS) because it generates electricity and absorbs emissions at the same time. However, biomass is not distributed evenly across the globe, and regions with a potentially high demand...
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This paper tackles the "pollution haven" argument by estimating the pollution content of imports (PCI). The PCI is then …) a factor endowment component and (iii) a "pollution haven" component reflecting the impact of differences in … environmental policies. The estimation is carried out for 1987 for an extensive data set covering 10 pollutants, 48 countries and 79 …
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has given rise to unprecedented environmental pollution and CO2 emissions. While estimates of the embedded CO2 emissions …
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To quantify the growth in GHG emissions related to international trade, we build an extensive database for export-related production and transportation GHG emissions covering 189 countries and 10 sectors from 1990 to 2014. We employ this database to quantify the contribution of production and...
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markets behind the relationship between exports and pollution. In this paper we argue that because consumers in high … increase in the share of exports to high-income countries is associated with a reduction in CO2 pollution intensity of about 16 …
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firms' export performance. Drawing on Porter hypothesis and firm heterogeneity theory, we adopt a structural model where … assess whether induced productivity influences the extensive and intensive margin of exports. Relying on a rich firm …-level dataset on Italian manufacturing, our results show that firms with higher productivity, induced among other factors by green …
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The paper studies the use of emission taxes and feed-in subsidies for the regulation of a monopoly that can produce the same good with a technology that employs a polluting input and a clean technology. The second-best tax and subsidy are calculated solving a two-stage policy game between the...
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of water pollution deriving from mismanaged drilling and fracturing, absence of adequate regulation framework and …
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