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pollution, represented by carbon dioxide and greenhouse gas emission levels in the atmosphere. The article makes a statistical …
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This paper proves that when a firm has paid pollution tax, it will not clean its pollution any more. Conversely, it … proves that when a firm has cleaned up its pollution, it should be exempted from pollution and profit tax. This paper also … proves that for pollution tax to be effective, it has to be capital, i.e., the pollution firm has to be shut down. Finally …
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The paper studies the effect of public transport policies on urban pollution. It uses a quantitative equilibrium model … with residential choice and mode choice. Pollution comes from commuting and residential energy use. The model parameters … transport coupled with increasing transit speed affects the equilibrium. In the baseline simulation, total pollution falls by 0 …
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Although the U.S. spends billions of dollars a year controlling water pollution, there is little empirical evidence of … comparable benefits. This study argues that measurement error in pollution data causes benefits to be underestimated. Using … nutrient pollution. Instrumental variable estimates of the effects of phosphorus on recreational use are an order of magnitude …
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We apply Shephard’s dual lemma and the concept of multi-output distance function to the estimation of marginal abatement costs of CO2 emissions reduction in the developing part of the East Asian and Pacific region, also including Korea and Japan. We find that abatement costs are the highest...
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(production capital, pollution control capital, labor, and energy) and a bad input (sulfur burned) to produce good outputs … for this jointness increases the cost of pollution control, making it less acceptable to the public and its policymakers …
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Using plant-level pollution data from Environmental Survey and Reporting Database in China, we analyze how the … government's 2007 environmental policy aiming to curb pollution from two-high industries (i.e., high-polluting and high energy …-consuming) affect real firm pollution activities across the supply chain. We employ the Differences-in-Differences approach and find …
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We study how environmentally-inclined politicians (EIPs), i.e., politicians with prior environment-related working experience, affect local environmental performance in China. Firms located in cities with EIPs have lower levels of sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions. The effect is attenuated when the...
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This paper describes the creation of a database providing estimated greenhouse gas (GHG) footprints for 6 million US households over the period 2008-2012. The database allows analysis of footprints for 52 types of consumption (e.g. electricity, gasoline, apparel, beef, air travel, etc.) within...
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Taking as given that we are consuming too much and that overconsumption leads to environmental degradation, the present paper examines the regulator's choices between informative advertisement and consumption taxation. We model overconsumption by considering individuals that care about social...
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