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Does economic development have an unavoidable ecological cost? We examine the ecological impacts of one of India's signature place-based economic policies involving massive tax benefits for new industrial and infrastructure development following the creation of the new state of Uttarakhand. The...
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water pollution than in industries with less water pollution in the UPR regions. The second RED policy with environmental … regulations was effective in restraining the new entry of firms in high-pollution industries into the UPR regions but failed to … drive existing high-pollution firms out of the UPR regions. Firms’ location decisions were driven by the more favorable tax …
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on establishment-level pollution emissions and business characteristics - including trade activities and global … trade policy uncertainty. Emission abatement is mainly driven by a decline in pollution emission intensity, and not by … pollution haven hypothesis whereby offshoring is central to the mechanism - US manufacturers begin to source from abroad and …
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This paper investigates how greenhouse gas (GHG) policy stringency affects anthropogenic CO2 emissions using a new GHG policy stringency indicator and a structural spatial VAR approach. We estimate an average country-specific elasticity of CO2 emissions to GHG policy stringency, and assess the...
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This analysis seeks to understand whether changes in oil regulation brought about by the shale revolution have restricted the pace of drilling and production. This hypothesis is tested using data on North Dakota and Montana both before and after North Dakota increased the level of bonding...
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the adoption or renewal of voluntary certificates. I then match plant-level toxic pollution reported and formal regulatory … regulatory agencies. Next, I estimate a panel data model of toxic pollution discharges, instrumenting for potentially endogenous … pollution control might not be followed up with further improvements and the upfront benefits of public recognition as …
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-riding on unrelated pollution control investments. We use plant-level data on more than 100,000 facilities to analyze the Clean …
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posit that the effectiveness of environmental regulations and policies is influenced by the air pollution level. Our results …
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In an attempt to verify the pollution haven hypothesis, this study investigates the impact of environmental regulations … the host country's environmental regulations. Since the pollution haven's effects indicate moving the polluting production … those countries. This supports the prevalence of the effects of pollution havens. However, before we separate the FDI into …
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standard imposed by one country to curb local pollution there. We show that such unilateral policy adopted by the high …-quality country aimed at lowering domestic pollution may not be a step in the right direction as they may raise global pollution …. However, in the presence of consumer awareness regarding global pollution, a standard imposed by the high-quality country will …
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