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We first study the optimality of a committed policy mix of tax and subsidy to control pollution when firms are involved in abatement technology R&D that is subject to knowledge spillovers. Then a comparison of tax and subsidy is provided when the policy mix is not available and the regulator can...
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We examine whether and how newspaper coverage affects firms' toxic emissions. Studying this question helps us understand the ecosystem of regulation by revelation, an increasingly popular environmental policy approach. Using local newspaper closures as an exogenous shock to news coverage, we...
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has been made to 'green' the economy, an important challenge that remains is to internalize global and local externalities …
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Based on an in-depth literature review and responses to a survey among OECD member countries, this paper discusses the use of flexibility mechanisms in environmental regulations. Such mechanisms can provide flexibility as to how a given environmental improvement is achieved, regarding where...
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externalities, treatment of one unit often affects other units. To explore the implications of applying standard quasi …
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externalities and their cost of debt using data on European corporate bonds. For direct environmental costs as well as for carbon … emissions, we find that policy is a key driver of the capital market's valuation of these externalities. The size as well as … direction of the effect of externalities on bond spreads depends on the stringency of policy and a firm’s pollution- and carbon …
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This paper investigates the extent to which interjurisdictional spillovers -- transboundary pollution and the so-called 'race to the bottom' -- distort decentralized environmental regulation in practice. To that end, I develop a model in which local jurisdictions set regulations by trading-off...
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implications of different assumptions about the degree to which global externalities are internalized are analyzed. Subsequently …
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