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Firms’ Response and Unintended Health Consequences of Industrial Regulations
Hansman, Christopher; Hjort, Jonas; León, Gianmarco - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2015
Regulations that constrain firms’ externalities in one dimension can distort incentives and worsen externalities in … other dimensions. In Peru’s industrial fishing sector, the world’s largest, fishing boats catch anchovy that plants along the … admissions records, and survey data on individual health outcomes, we first show that fishmeal production worsens adult and child …
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An Analysis of Financial Performance Using the EVA Method
Dluhošová, Dana - In: Czech Journal of Economics and Finance (Finance a uver) 54 (2004) 11-12, pp. 541-559
The paper considers company performance measures and the development of the Economic Value Added (EVA) indicator in volatile economies, particularly in the case of the Czech Republic. Methods used for pyramidal analysis, their assumptions, and their application possibilities are discussed. A...
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Supply constraints and housing market dynamics
Paciorek, Andrew - In: Journal of Urban Economics 77 (2013) C, pp. 11-26
Although the volatility of house prices is often ascribed to demand-side factors, constraints on housing supply have important and little-studied implications for housing dynamics. I illustrate the strong relationship between the volatility of house prices and the regulation of new housing...
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Investigación, políticas y desarrollo en el Perú
GRADE - Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE)
investigación empírica relevantes para el logro de mayores niveles de desarrollo en el Perú. Por ello, los temas ofrecidos …
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The Effects of Environmental Regulation on the Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturing
Greenstone, Michael; list, john; Syverson, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The economic costs of environmental regulations have been widely debated since the U.S. began to restrict pollution emissions more than four decades ago. Using detailed production data from nearly 1.2 million plant observations drawn from the 1972-1993 Annual Survey of Manufactures, we estimate...
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Policy responses by different agents/stakeholders in a transition: Integrating the Multi-level Perspective and behavioral economics
Gazheli, Ardjan; Antal, Miklós; Drake, Ben; Jackson, Tim; … - WWWforEurope - 2013
This short paper considers all possible stakeholders in different stages of a sustainability transition and matches their behavioral features and diversity to policies. This will involve an assessment of potential or expected responses of stakeholders to a range of policy instruments. Following...
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Analysis of Firm Compliance with Multiple Environmental regulations
Liu, Lirong - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 3, pp. 1695-1705
When a firm is regulated by multiple environmental programs, the firm may manage its compliance with these programs systematically so that the regulation of one program can affect firm decisions regarding compliance with other programs. Faced with budget constraints on compliance expenditure, a...
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The Place of Nature in Economic Development
Dasgupta, Partha - In: Handbook of Development Economics
In this chapter both theory and empirics are used to show that our picture of the processes of economic development changes radically when nature is introduced as a capital asset. Particular features of institutions that fashion societies' use of the natural-resource base are identified and...
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Agricultural primary commodity export and environmental degradation: what consequences for population’s health?
DRABO, Alassane - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 2011
examining the consequences of agricultural primary commodity export on population’s health via physical environment degradation …). This environmental degradation from trade worsens population’s health (infant and child mortality rates, and life …
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Drinking Water Supply Management through Innovative Methods and Finance in Municipal Councils of Mumbai Metropolitan Region
RODE, Sanjay - In: Economia. Seria Management 17 (2014) 1, pp. 100-113
demand of drinking water is higher by population, commercial units, health care, educational institutions and industry. The …
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