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Is green consumerism beneficial to the environment and the economy? To shed light on this question, we study the political economy of environmental regulations in a model with neutral and green consumers where the latter derive some warm glow from buying a good of higher environmental quality...
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Using a unique plant-level dataset we examine total factor productivity (TFP) growth and its components, related to … regulated due to its historically large contribution to air and water pollution. Our paper contributes to the broader empirical … literature on the Porter Hypothesis, which posits a positive relationship between environmental regulation and “green” TFP growth …
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problem, it is hard to justify an exogenous constant growth rate of consumption and GDP, as is done in several contributions …
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We examine how Green governments influence macroeconomic, education, and environmental outcomes. We exploit that the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan gave rise to an unanticipated change in government in the German state Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2011. Using the synthetic control method, we find...
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-consistent policy rules that implement the stochastic first best as long as a future market exists. We apply our theory to carbon …
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Will a carbon tax improve the welfare consequences of policies to promote electric vehicles? This paper examines when a complementarity could exist between carbon pricing and high electric vehicle adoption. We analyze electricity generation in recent years to show that in several regions, carbon...
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years of progress on air pollution, water, climate, oceans, fish, land, forest, biodiversity, plastics, contaminants, space …
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in a continuous-time dynamic growth model featuring optimizing households and firms. Environmental quality is modelled as … for environmental pollution when holding firm equity, they require a premium on the return to equity. We show that …
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private mitigation is feasible, inequality of incomes leads to an unequal distribution of the health burden of pollution (in … either mitigate the health consequences of domestic pollution privately or reduce pollution collectively through public … inequality and the degree to which ordinary citizens exert voice in each dimension of the policy process distinguishes elites and …
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We analyze a model where firms chose a production technology which, together with some random event, determines the final emission level. We consider the coexistence of two alternative technologies: a "clean" technology, and a "dirty" technology. The environmental regulation is based on taxes...
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