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Green havens and pollution havens
Poelhekke, Steven; van der Ploeg, Rick - 2012
enforcement of environmental policy. In contrast to earlier results, it is not only footloose industries that display pollution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287196
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Resource Dependence, Recycling, and Trade
Egger, Peter H.; Keuschnigg, Christian - 2023
Recycling waste from used goods can substitute for scarce raw materials and reduce resource dependence. This paper presents a model of waste collection, recycling and final goods production using raw and recycled materials. Non-recycled waste must be safely stored by landfill to avoid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377527
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Economic, demographic and political determinants of pollution reassessed: a sensitivity analysis
Gassebner, Martin; Lamla, Michael; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2006
Recent literature proposes many variables as significant determinants of pollution. This paper gives an overview of this literature and asks which of these factors have an empirically robust impact on water and air pollution, i.e. do not depend upon the conditioning information set. For this, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263897
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Economic Geography and the Efficiency of Environmental Regulation
Hollingsworth, Alex; Jaworski, Taylor; Kitchens, Carl; … - 2022
We develop a spatial equilibrium model to evaluate the efficiency and distributional impacts of the leading air quality regulation in the United States: the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). We link our economic model to an integrated assessment model for air pollutants which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266609
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Resource Dependence, Recycling, and Trade
Egger, Peter; Keuschnigg, Christian - 2023
Recycling waste from used goods can substitute for scarce raw materials and reduce resource dependence. This paper presents a model of waste collection, recycling and final goods production using raw and recycled materials. Non-recycled waste must be safely stored by landfill to avoid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346450
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Economic Geography and the Efficiency of Environmental Regulation
Hollingsworth, Alex; Jaworski, Taylor; Kitchens, Carl T.; … - 2022
We develop a spatial equilibrium model to evaluate the efficiency and distributional impacts of the leading air quality regulation in the United States: the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). We link our economic model to an integrated assessment model for air pollutants which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013293305
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Decentralized Environmental Regulations and Plant-Level Productivity
Ghosal, Vivek; Stephan, Andreas; Weiss, Jan F. - 2018
and enforcement. Our key findings are: (1) prudential regulation limits expansion of plants with high initial pollution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932005
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Globalization and domestic conflict
Garfinkel, Michelle R.; Skaperdas, Stergios; … - 2005
?). Thus, conflict is viewed as ultimately stemming from imperfect property-rights enforcement. When comparing autarky with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261309
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The war on illegal drugs in producer and consumer countries: a simple analytical framework
Mejía, Daniel - 2008
demand for drugs) and enforcement policies (aimed at reducing the production and trafficking of drugs), and shows how the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264484
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Fighting Mobile Crime
Crinò, Rosario; Immordino, Giovanni; Piccolo, Salvatore - 2019
Two countries set their enforcement non-cooperatively to deter native and foreign individuals from committing crime in …- mitted a crime in a country must be extradited back. When extradition is not too costly, countries overinvest in enforcement …, a large enforcement may induce criminals to flee the country whose law they infringed. The fear of paying the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018137