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endogenous growth and convergence behavior, and pollution accumulation in each country with pollution diffusion between countries … capital and pollution rates of flow, spatial heterogeneity emerges even between two economies with identical fundamental …We seek to explain the emergence of spatial heterogeneity regarding development and pollution on the basis of …
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Critics of modern macroeconomics often raise concerns about unwarranted welfare conclusions and data mining. This paper illustrates these concerns with a thought experiment, based on the debate in environmental economics about the appropriate discount rate in climate change analyses: I set up an...
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We examine the extent to which environmental regulation affects innovation and which policy types provide the strongest incentives to innovate. Using a local projection framework, we estimate the regulatory impact on patenting activity over a five-year horizon. As a proxy for environmental...
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We study the labor market and macroeconomic effects of introducing a carbon tax in the energy sector in emerging economies (EMEs) by building a framework with equilibrium unemployment and firm entry that incorporates key elements of the distinct employment and firm structure of EMEs. Our model...
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, capital investment, increasing labor and intermediate inputs are considered. The marginal abatement costs (MACs) of greenhouse …
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.5 concentrations, with the drop leveling off for further increases in fine-particle pollution. A back-of-the-envelope calculation … hourly PM2.5 truncated at 25 µg/m3. We also find reduced product quality as pollution rises. Our model allows for selection … into work attendance, though we do not find particle pollution to be a meaningful determinant of non-attendance, which is …
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feebates, instead of carbon prices. We compare these policies in a Ramsey model with clean and polluting capital, irreversible … optimal carbon price minimizes the discounted social cost of the transition to clean capital, but imposes immediate private … costs that disproportionately affect the current owners of polluting capital, in particular in the form of stranded assets …
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Countries have pledged to stabilize global warming at a 1.5 to 2êC increase. Either target requires reaching net zero emissions before the end of the century, which implies a major transformation of the economic system. This paper reviews the literature on how policymakers can design climate...
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This paper analyses the impact of changes in environmental regulations on productivity growth at country- and firm-level. We exploit several data sources and the environmental policy stringency index, to evaluate the Porter hypothesis, according to which firms' productivity can benefit from more...
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This paper studies Krugman's (1991) core-periphery model and extends it to include environmental pollution. We present … local environmental pollution, a third and more realistic type of equilibrium may occur in which most of the manufacturing …
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