A unilateral carbon tax trades off the distortionary costs of taxation and the future gains from slowing down global warming. Because the cost is local and immediate, whereas the benefit is global and delayed, this tradeoff tends to be unfavorable to unilateral carbon taxes. We show that this...

Lorsque Peugeot annonça la vente du FC Sochaux, les amoureux des Lions crièrent à la trahison. Mais cet évènement funeste ne venait qu'entériner le déclin d'une industrie, d'une ville, d'une légende. Et le déclassement d'une France jugée désormais dépassée. C'est cet univers que...

This paper estimates the relationship between alcohol outlets and crime at micro place street units in Washington, D.C. The analysis tests several spatial hypothesis on the local and spatial diffusion effects of on-premise and off-premise alcohol outlets on crime motivated by routine activities...

We estimate the spatially differential effects of a nationally uniform minimum wage that was introduced in Germany in 2015. To this end, we use a micro data set covering the universe of employed and unemployed individuals in Germany from 2011 to 2016 and a difference‐in‐differences based...

We estimate direct and indirect effects of total factor productivity growth in manufacturing on US workers' earnings, housing costs, and purchasing power. Drawing on four alternative instrumental variables, we consistently find that when a city experiences productivity gains in manufacturing,...