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’s toxic releases. At the same time, we find no evidence that competition increases aggregate pollution. Further analysis sheds … some light on the mechanisms through which firms reduce pollution releases due to increased competition. In particular, we … evidence that our result is driven by: consumer aversion to pollution, regulations changing with competition, or technologies …
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through heat or pollution. We develop a multi-battle dynamic model to investigate how the disutility from a protracted … competition shapes agents' willingness to fight on. Our theory predicts that a poor environment amplifies the momentum of a … battle-to-battle transition probabilities. We find that heat and pollution affect incentives to compete strategically. In a …
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Worldwide, feed-food competition for arable land is of rising concern. Swiss agricultural policy wants to promote grass … rate of the new program, and its effect on feed-food competition and environmental indicators at the national scale for …-food competition and environmental indicators. Only banning the use of concentrates altogether moves the environmental indicators in …
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The Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAA) of 1990 will have a major impact on U.S. coal markets. We argue that coal suppliers will be able to use the market in sulfur dioxide emissions allowances created by the CAAA to increase the range of their competitive strategies in their core business, coal.
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