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Do national borders matter? Intranational trade, international trade, and the environment
McAusland, Carol; Millimet, Daniel L. - In: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 65 (2013) 3, pp. 411-437
We develop a theoretical model identifying channels through which trade impacts the environment. First, trade decouples some of regulation's costs from its benefits, prompting demand for stringent environmental regulations. Second, trade provides consumers with access to new varieties of goods;...
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Socio-Economic Composition and Uniform Partial Ranking of US County-Level Environmental Quality
Maasoumi, Esfandiar; Millimet, Daniel L. - Southern Methodist University, Department of Economics - 2001
The distribution of pollution is of just as much concern as the level of pollution, particularly if the areas located … mean pollution levels. However, claims of environmental discrimination based upon only the first moment of a conditional …
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The Distribution of Pollution in the United States: An Environmental Gini Approach
Millimet, Daniel L.; Slottje, Daniel - Southern Methodist University, Department of Economics - 1999
The concepts of an environmental Gini coefficient along with a measure of ''pollution elasticity'' are introduced and … used to analyze the distribution of pollution across U.S. states from 1988 -- 1996. The special properties of the Gini … coefficient allow one to decompose overall pollution inequality into several components based on pollution type and predict the …
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