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African countries have sought to replicate the success of East Asia by implementing special economic zones. Despite decades of international experience, there remains no blueprint for successful special economic zone policies, and the majority of special economic zones fall well below...
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Institutions are argued to be the fundamental reason for variations in economic growth in different countries by some economists. Others argue that context-specific policies such as trade policies or industrial policies are more effective to promote economic growth. In this paper, we contribute...
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We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in … China. Using precise measures of each worker's daily output linked to daily measures of pollution and meteorology, we find … that higher levels of air pollution decrease worker productivity by reducing the number of calls that workers complete each …
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significant downward trends indicating a decline over time in the degree of pollution in Chinese cities. It is also interesting …
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degradation (or pollution) levels in China. Starting in 2008, Chinese stock exchange listing requirements mandated that certain … firms issue CSR reports. These mandated firms are fairly well diversified across industries and, other than pollution … pollution. Firms subject to mandatory disclosure decreased both direct and indirect (i.e., supply chain) environmental impacts …
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industrial (waste water and dust) pollution. Auxiliary regressions show that conditional on income, northern provinces have lower … industrial waste water pollution; non-coastal and provinces with smaller secondary industry shares have lower industrial (waste … water, COD, and dust) pollution; provinces with smaller state-owned enterprises share have lower industrial COD pollution …
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Is a firm's ability to export an important determinant of environmental performance? To answer this question, we construct a unique micro dataset that merged two rich firm-level datasets for China for 2007. When combining this new dataset with well-received empirical specifications, we found...
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