This paper analyzes the extensive and intensive margins of participation in the Carbon Disclosure Project by the Global 500. Empirical results based on the Double Hurdle model suggest that the existence of a senior manager with direct responsibility for climate change is associated with higher...

This paper investigates whether rights-based management in fisheries ends the “race to fish.” The staggered introductions of catch shares in the Alaska pollock and Pacific hake fisheries — neighboring regional fisheries that are the largest and sixth largest fishery by volume in the United...

The San Francisco Bay Area has long been a key center of information technology (IT) innovation and production. This Economic Letter explores how IT employment trends have evolved in this area, as well as how they compare to other key IT centers and the nation. The findings show that, although...

In recent decades, businesses have participated in transnational climate governance (TCG) to share information, promote market mechanisms, and to set carbon emission reduction targets. This paper focuses on the Global 500, which are the world’s largest companies by revenue, to examine the...

This paper examines the role that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s introduction of the Clean Power Plan played in voluntary carbon disclosure by the Global 500 firms during 2011-2015. Results from difference-in-differences and difference-in-difference-in-differences estimators nested...