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has increasingly become a pollution haven …
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small, for two reasons. First, services account for only a small fraction of overall pollution. For none of five major air … relation to the environment, because services in general contribute relatively little to overall pollution, and those …
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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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This paper provides the first estimates of within-industry heterogeneity in energy and CO2 productivity for the entire U.S. manufacturing sector. We measure energy and CO2 productivity as output per dollar energy input or per ton CO2 emitted. Three findings emerge. First, within narrowly...
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This paper provides the first estimates of within-industry heterogeneity in energy and CO2 productivity for the entire U.S. manufacturing sector. We measure energy and CO2 productivity as output per dollar energy input or per ton CO2 emitted. Three findings emerge. First, within narrowly defined...
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We combine econometric estimation with quantitative modelling to generate projections on the trade, GDP, and emissions effects of a potential trade liberalization agreement in energy related environmental goods (EREGs) and environmentally preferable products (EPPs). Trade liberalization can...
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Who benefits from market-based environmental policies? To shed light on this question, we investigate the environmental and distributional consequences of regional cap-and-trade programs to mitigate sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides from U.S. power plants. Using double and triple differences,...
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(United States) and the South (China) in the presence of a global pollution externality. Each country's share of global … pollution depends on its share of world capital. The authors show that, if the disutility of pollution in the United States is … the increased pollution in China has global effects, the US may not benefit from the environmental restrictions and a …
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) and the South (China) in the presence of a global pollution externality. Each country's share of global pollution depends … on its share of world capital. We show that, if the disutility of pollution in the United States is high, there will be … pressure on the US to raise environmental regulations on industry. Capital will move to China. Because the increased pollution …
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