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Vog: Using Volcanic Eruptions to Estimate the Health Costs of Particulates and SO2

De Paula, Áureo; Halliday, Timothy J.; Lynham, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Kilauea volcano is the largest stationary source of SO2 pollution in the United States of America. Moreover, the SO2 … pollution variation to estimate the impact of particulate matter and SO2 on emergency room admissions and costs in the state of … evidence that particulate pollution increases pulmonary-related hospitalization. Specifically, a one standard deviation …

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Sources of Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries

Broner, Fernando A; Bustos, Paula; Carvalho, Vasco M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

the country level with data on pollution intensity at the industry level to show that countries with laxer environmental …. We propose an instrument for environmental regulation based on meteorological determinants of pollution dispersion … identified by the atmospheric pollution literature. We find that the effect of environmental regulation on the pattern of trade …

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Does Supporting Passenger Railways Reduce Road Traffic Externalities?

Lalive, Rafael; Luechinger, Simon; Schmutzler, Armin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

reduce the number of severe road traffic accidents, carbon monoxide, nitrogen monoxide, nitrogen dioxide pollution and infant … mortality. Placebo regressions with sulfur dioxide and ozone yield no effect. Service frequency growth between 1994 and 2004 …

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Intergenerational inequality aversion, growth and the role of damages: Occam’s rule for the global carbon tax

Rezai, Armon; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We use the Euler equation to put forward a back-on-the-envelope rule for the global carbon tax based on a two-box carbon cycle with temperature lag, and a constant elasticity of marginal damages with respect to GDP. This tax falls with time impatience and intergenerational inequality aversion...

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Abandoning Fossil Fuel: How Fast And How Much?

Rezai, Armon; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Climate change must deal with two market failures, global warming and learning by doing in renewable use. The social optimum requires an aggressive renewables subsidy in the near term and a gradually rising carbon tax which falls in long run. As a result, more renewables are used relative to...

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Household Willingness to Pay for Organic Products

Griffith, Rachel; Nesheim, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

, health concerns coming second, and environmental concerns lagging far behind. We also show how these methods can be used for …

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The Behaviour of Relative Prices in the European Union: A Sectoral Analysis

Chen, Natalie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

Using multivariate unit root test methods, this Paper investigates the Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) hypothesis at the sectoral level across six European countries over the last seventeen years. Evidence of mean reversion toward PPP is found for the relative prices of some sectors and countries....

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Declining Home Bias and the Increase in International Risk Sharing: Lessons from European Integration

Artis, Michael J; Hoffmann, Mathias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper provides further evidence on the recent increase in international consumption risk sharing. We show that this increase is more pronounced among EU and EMU countries than among non-E(M)U industrialised countries. We also show that the patterns of international but not intra-European...

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Dynamism and Inertia on the Russian Labour Market: A Model of Segmentation

Grosfeld, Irena; Kolenikov, Stanislav; Paltseva, Elena; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

This paper proposes an explanation of the puzzling coexistence of elements of inertia and dynamism on the Russian labour market using a segmentation model. Risk averse workers are differentiated according to their productivity. They face a trade-off between wages and access to social services...

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Twin Peaks: Growth and Convergence in Models of Distribution Dynamics

Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

Convergence concerns poor economies catching up with rich ones. At issue is what happens to the cross-sectional distribution of economies, not whether a single economy tends towards its own steady state. It is the latter, however, that has preoccupied the traditional approach to convergence...

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