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The US-Mexico free-trade debate included some theoretical assertions that were then used as arguments against trade and investment liberalization. (1) Trade liberalization increases the degree to which production is internationally relocated in response to environmental restrictions...
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theoretical and empirical research to evaluate the effects of such reforms on tax revenue, pollution emissions, economic …
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This paper explores the significance of policy-induced technological change for the design of carbon-abatement policies. We derive analytical expressions characterizing optimal CO2 abatement and carbon tax profiles under different specifications for the channels through which technological...
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theory and empirical evidence of induced innovation and the related literature on the effects of environmental policy on the … creation of new, environmentally friendly technology; the theory and empirics of environmental issues related to technology …
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This paper investigates how concern for the environment translates into predictable patterns of consumer behavior. Two types of behavior are considered. First, individuals who care about environmental quality may voluntarily restrain their consumption of goods and services that generate a...
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exists an evident heterogeneous effect across industries with different pollution intensities. Stricter environmental …
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This paper explores the empirical effects of decentralization on environmental quality by studying water pollution in … rivers around the world. It examines the level of pollution and variation in pollution across jurisdictions within a country …, for both a local and a regional pollutant. Federal countries exhibit greater interjurisdictional variation in pollution …
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environmental economics. First, real business cycle models can incorporate pollution and pollution policy and be used to answer … context with business cycles? Second, endogenous technological growth is an important component of environmental policy …
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Total pollution emitted by U.S. manufacturers declined over the past 30 years by about 60 percent, even though real …, which itself may result from increased net imports of pollution-intensive goods (quot;international tradequot;). I first … show that most of the decline in pollution from U.S. manufacturing has been the result of changing technology, rather than …
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Recent studies consider public R&D spending that affects abatement knowledge and endogenous growth, distortionary taxes … that affect physical and human capital formation, pollution taxes that affect environmental degradation, and regeneration … abatement knowledge relative to pollution. First, either of these two extensions can reverse the prior finding that pollution …
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