This paper explores the relationships among economic development, energy consumption, and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by focusing on a set of advanced economies, the U.S. states. Energy consumption and emissions grew 50-60 percent on average over the 1960-1999 period. The states' per capita...

This paper attempts to investigate the impact of economic growth, population, and energy consumption on consumption-based CO2 emissions for a global panel of China and U.S. with the comparison of two dynamic models, pooled OLS and LSDV, for the period 1990–2016. The empirical evidence...

Geographic concentration in U.S. hog production from 1974 to 1996 is investigated using a measure based on Theil's entropy index. For the U.S. as a whole, geographic concentration is occurring at a slow rate, both for hog farms and hog numbers. However, for particular states,primarily in the new...

We conduct an econometric analysis of the factors influencing U.S. corn and soybean yields using U.S. county level data from 1977 to 2007 and evaluate the likely effects of future climate change on U.S. crop yields based on the projected climate changes by IPCC (2001) and our estimated...

Agricultural production is often exposed to several sources of risks, uncertainties and random shocks. These risks and random shocks make the evaluation the influence of policy interventions in the agricultural sector difficult due to the existence of limited data about random events....

This paper studies how innovation reacts to climate change and shapes its economic impacts, focusing on US agriculture. We show in a model that directed innovation can either mitigate or exacerbate climate change's economic damage depending on whether new technology is on average a substitute...

Agricultural pesticides have adverse impacts on water quality and aquatic species. These impacts are sensitive to climate because pest pressure and corresponding pesticide application rates vary with weather and climate conditions. In this paper, we investigate how climate change affects the...

We use transaction-level data to study changes in the concentration of US imports. Concentration has fallen in the typical industry, while it is stable by industry and origin country. The fall in concentration is driven by the extensive margin: the number of exporting firms has grown, and the...

We use transaction-level data to study changes in the concentration of US imports. Concentration has fallen in the typical industry, while it is stable by industry and origin country. The fall in concentration is driven by the extensive margin: the number of exporting firms has grown, and the...