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Industry Program, Mexico's flagship voluntary regulatory initiative. We seek to identify the drivers of participation and to …
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. These results suggest that in Mexico, the ISO 14001 program attracts dirty plants under pressure from regulators — not just …
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governors in Mexico are particularly incentivized to sacrifice a critical type of public good—air quality—and inadvertently harm …
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presence of climate change. This analysis is applied to two irrigation districts in Latin America: one in Mexico and the other …
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Overall government procurement in Mexico is about $63.5 billion, making it a substantial source of the country’s total … expenditures. For comparison, the total gross domestic product in Mexico is $1,220.7 billion. Increasing green purchasing in the … public sector is a significant way to improve sustainable practices within Mexico. Mexico has several initiatives that …
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(CLR) that affected Central America from 2012 on deforestation in Mexico. CLR is a fungal disease that negatively affects …
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Economic policies that boost the return to mixed agroforesty, thereby creating financial incentives for land managers to favor these systems over less environmentally friendly land uses, could, in theory, have ancillary environmental benefits. This paper analyses primary and secondary data to...
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Genetically modified (“GMO”) corn germinates legal controversies in México. Since 2013, Mexican courts have temporarily … suspended GMO corn because it threatens biodiversity. In the Colectividad del Maíz lawsuit, courts have prohibited México from … questions about biotechnology and México’s sovereignty. Courts and policy makers respond to these controversies with their …
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to avoid deforesting land they enroll in the program. We present findings from a randomized trial in Mexico that tested …
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We study a mixed hitting-time (MHT) model that specifies durations as the first time a Lévy process - a continuous-time process with stationary and independent increments - crosses a heterogeneous threshold. Such models are of substantial interest because they can be reduced from...
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