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Public policy towards offshore oil spills

Mason, Charles F. - 2017

On April 20, 2010, the Macondo well suffered a blowout, causing the mobile offshore drilling unit "Deepwater Horizon" to explode and eventually sink. Oil flowed from the well into the Gulf of Mexico for 87 days. In the aftermath of this event, the US Government proposed significant regulatory...

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Dangerous waters : the economic toll of piracy on maritime shipping

Molina, Renato; Villaseñor-Derbez, Juan Carlos; … - 2024

responses that underpin them. Here, we combine theory and a unique geospatial dataset combining more than 25 million shipping … behaviour and aggregate transportation cost, as well as its environmental impact, with major implications for the shipping …

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The effect of oil spills on infant mortality : evidence from Nigeria

Brüderle, Mirjam Anna; Hodler, Roland - 2017

Oil spills can lead to irreversible environmental degradation and pose hazards to human health. We are the first to study the causal effects of onshore oil spills on neonatal and infant mortality rates. We use spatial data from the Nigerian Oil Spill Monitor and the Demographic and Health...

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Electoral incentives and firm behavior : evidence from U.S. power plant pollution abatement

Doyle, Matthew; Di Maria, Corrado; Lange, Ian; … - 2016

evidence that power plants spend less in water pollution abatement if the governor of the state where the plant is located is a … leads to increased pollution. …

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Entrepôt : hubs, scale, and trade costs

Ganapati, Sharat; Wong, Woan Foong; Ziv, Oren - 2020

incorporating route choice by exporters within a Ricardian setting. We use the model to estimate trade costs on each shipping leg …

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A quantitative model of the oil tanker market in the Arabian Gulf

Kilian, Lutz; Nomikos, Nikos K.; Zhou, Xiaoqing - 2020 - This version: May 20, 2020

Using a novel dataset, we develop a structural model of the Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) market between the Arabian Gulf and the Far East. We study how fluctuations in oil tanker rates, oil exports, shipowner profits, and bunker fuel prices are determined by shocks to the supply and demand...

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Measuring global real economic activity : do recent critiques hold up to scrutiny?

Kilian, Lutz - 2019

Hamilton (2018) suggests that the Kilian (2009) index of global real economic activity is misleading and calls for alternative measures. The problem documented by Hamilton is a consequence of a coding mistake. Specifically, the index of nominal freight rates underlying the Kilian index was...

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Transshipment hubs, trade, and supply chains

Do, Anh; Ganapati, Sharat; Wong, Woan Foong; Ziv, Oren - 2025

The majority of global trade moves by sea through hub-and-spoke shipping networks. We investigate the returns to being … product-level trade. Leveraging the indirect shipping network structure to construct an instrument, we find that transshipment …

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Can unilateral policy decarbonize maritime trade?

Ludwig, Philipp - 2025

The international shipping sector is a vital part of the global trading system but also a large emitter of carbon … dioxide emissions. In the absence of a multilateral carbon policy for the shipping sector, different countries are starting to … framework emphasizes the role of transport providers which allocate clean and dirty vessels to shipping routes and thereby …

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The effects of transit systems on international trade

Carballo, Jerónimo; Graziano, Alejandro G.; Schaur, Georg - 2021 - This version: October 2021

$ 3-to-1. The estimation results also suggest that existing frameworks that emphasize shipping frequency and the formation …

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