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The role of cities in protecting environmental quality
Nižić, Marinela Krstinić; Baresa, Suzana - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 4 (2013) 3, pp. 325-339
positively and negatively. Therefore, the basic aim of this paper is demonstrating that cities can resist pollution and improve …
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Technology, International Trade, and Pollution from U.S. Manufacturing
Levinson, Arik - 2014
Total pollution emitted by U.S. manufacturers declined over the past 30 years, even though manufacturing output … of pollution-intensive goods ("international trade"). In this paper, I first show that most of the decline in pollution … pollution-intensive goods are too small to explain more than about half of the pollution reductions from the changing mix of …
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Anticipating the Future Use of Safeguards by the EU and the US on China's Textiles and Clothing Exports
Ghori, Umair - 2016
Textiles and clothing (T&C) trade after lapse of quotas in 2005 has revealed China's overwhelming comparative advantage in the manufacture and export of T&C products. China's advantage in this sector attracted the use of trade remedies by WTO members under WTO laws, often in a manner contrary to...
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Global and Regional Impacts of the Clean Development Mechanism
Wang, Shunli; de Groot, Henri L.F.; Nijkamp, Peter; … - 2009
Climate change is a serious concern worldwide. Policy research on climate change in the past decades has largely focused on applied modelling exercises. However, the implications of specific policy strategies such as the clean development mechanism (CDM) for global and regional economic and...
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On the Geographic Implications of Carbon Taxes
Conte, Bruno; Desmet, Klaus; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
A unilateral carbon tax trades off the distortionary costs of taxation and the future gains from slowing down global warming. Because the cost is local and immediate, whereas the benefit is global and delayed, this tradeoff tends to be unfavorable to unilateral carbon taxes. We show that this...
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The Historical Impact of Coal on Cities
Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua A.; Severnini, Edson R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
and thus employment. The primary costs are air pollution and its impact on human health. This paper starts by using a … pollution on health. The paper then turns to papers that explicitly consider the trade-offs between production benefits and … pollution disamenities across space and over time. The paper ends with a discussion of opportunities for future work on coal and …
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The Historical Impact of Coal on Cities
Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson - 2023
and thus employment. The primary costs are air pollution and its impact on human health. This paper starts by using a … pollution on health. The paper then turns to papers that explicitly consider the trade-offs between production benefits and … pollution disamenities across space and over time. The paper ends with a discussion of opportunities for future work on coal and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014343083
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The historical impact of coal on cities
Clay, Karen; Lewis, Joshua; Severnini, Edson R. - 2023
and thus employment. The primary costs are air pollution and its impact on human health. This paper starts by using a … pollution on health. The paper then turns to papers that explicitly consider the trade-offs between production benefits and … pollution disamenities across space and over time. The paper ends with a discussion of opportunities for future work on coal and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290397
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An economy transitioning from brown to green
Rhode, Carla - In: ifo DICE report 15 (2017) 3, pp. 51-55
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Contingent Trade Agreements
Harstad, Bård - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
There are often conflicts between proponents of trade and environmental activists. This paper shows, however, how trade agreements can be designed so as to motivate environmental conservation. I first analyze a standard trade model, where resource exploitation (e.g., deforestation) is a...
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