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Globalization and Greenhouse Gas Emissions : Evidence from the United States

Brunel, Claire; Levinson, Arik - 2023

The US has been a global leader in regulating local air pollution and a global laggard in regulating greenhouse gases … (GHGs). For decades, critics of US policy have expressed fears that stringent US regulations on local air pollution would … lead to pollution havens overseas. Prior research, suggests that has not happened. But what about the converse fear? Are …

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Do Pollution Markets Harm Low Income and Minority Communities? Ranking Emissions Distributions Generated by California's Reclaim Program

Mansur, Erin - 2019

We compare the spatial distribution of emissions from Southern California's pollution-trading program with that of a …

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Stoking the Fires? Co2 Emissions and Economic Growth

Holtz-Eakin, Douglas; Selden, Thomas M. - 2021

Over the past decade, concern over potential global warming has focused attention on the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, and there is an active debate concerning the desirability of reducing emissions. At the heart of this debate is the future path of both greenhouse gas...

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Sacred Cars? Optimal Regulation of Stationary and Non-Stationary Pollution Sources

Fowlie, Meredith - 2014

For political and practical reasons, environmental regulations sometimes treat point source polluters, such as power plants, differently from mobile source polluters, such as vehicles. This paper measures the extent of this regulatory asymmetry in the case of nitrogen oxides (NOx), the criteria...

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Optimal Emission Pricing in the Presence of International Spillovers : Decomposing Leakage and Terms-of-Trade Motives

Böhringer, Christoph - 2010

Carbon control policies in OECD countries commonly differentiate emission prices in favor of energy-intensive industries. While leakage provides a efficiency argument for differential emission pricing, the latter may be a disguised beggar-thy-neighbor policy to exploit terms of trade. Using an...

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Correcting Estimates of Electric Vehicle Emissions Abatement : Implications for Climate Policy

Muehlegger, Erich; Rapson, David - 2022

vision to phase out conventional vehicles entirely. In a world with only electric vehicles (EVs), transportation pollution …. The actual incremental pollution abatement arising from EVs today is thus substantially smaller than one would predict …

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A Big Data Approach to Optimal Sales Taxation

Baker, Christian - 2014

We characterize and demonstrate a solution method for an optimal commodity (sales) tax problem consisting of multiple goods, heterogeneous agents, and a nonconvex policy maker optimization problem. Our approach allows for more dimensions of heterogeneity than has been previously possible,...

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The Billion Prices Project : Using Online Prices for Measurement and Research

Cavallo, Alberto - 2016

New data-gathering techniques, often referred to as “Big Data” have the potential to improve statistics and empirical research in economics. In this paper we describe our work with online data at the Billion Prices Project at MIT and discuss key lessons for both inflation measurement and...

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Combining Family History and Machine Learning to Link Historical Records

Price, Joseph - 2019

A key challenge for research on many questions in the social sciences is that it is difficult to link historical records in a way that allows investigators to observe people at different points in their life or across generations. In this paper, we develop a new approach that relies on millions...

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Technology and Big Data are Changing Economics : Mining Text to Track Methods

Currie, Janet M.; Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Zwiers, Esmée - 2021

The last 40 years have seen huge innovations in computing technology and data availability. Data derived from millions of administrative records or by using (as we do) new methods of data generation such as text mining are now common. New data often requires new methods, which in turn can...

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