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Manufacturing Plant Location : Does State Pollution Regulation Matter?

Gray, Wayne B. - 1997

This paper tests whether differences across states in pollution regulation affect the location of manufacturing activity in the U.S. Plant-level data from the Census Bureau's Longitudinal Research Database is used to identify new plant births in each state over the 1963-1987 period. This is...

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Growing State-Federal Conflicts in Environmental Policy : The Role of Market-Based Regulation

Williams, Roberton C, III. - 2010

In recent years, cases in which state governments chose to override federal environmental regulation with tighter regulations of their own have become increasingly common, even for pollutants that have substantial spillovers across states. This paper argues that this change arose at least in...

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Interactions between State and Federal Climate Change Policies

Goulder, Lawrence H. - 2010

Federal action addressing climate change is likely to emerge either through new legislation or via the U.S. EPA's authority under the Clean Air Act. The prospect of federal action raises important questions regarding the interconnections between federal efforts and state-level climate policy...

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Heterogeneous Harm vs. Spatial Spillovers : Environmental Federalism and US Air Pollution

Banzhaf, H. Spencer - 2010

The economics of environmental federalism identifies two book-end departures from the first-best, which equates marginal costs and benefits in all local jurisdictions. Local governments may respond to local conditions, but ignore inter-jurisdictional spillovers. Alternatively, central...

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Unintended Consequences from Nested State & Federal Regulations : The Case of the Pavley Greenhouse-Gas-per-Mile Limits

Goulder, Lawrence H. - 2009

Fourteen U.S. states recently pledged to adopt limits on greenhouse gases (GHGs) per mile of light-duty automobiles. Previous analyses predicted this action would significantly reduce emissions from new cars in these states, but ignored possible offsetting emissions increases from policy-induced...

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Endogenous Decentralization in Federal Environmental Policies

Chang, Howard - 2007

Under most federal environmental laws and some health and safety laws, states may apply for "primacy," that is, authority to implement and enforce federal law, through a process known as "authorization." Some observers fear that states use authorization to adopt more lax policies in a regulatory...

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Transboundary Spillovers and Decentralization of Environmental Policies

Sigman, Hilary - 2004

Most US federal environmental policies allow states to assume responsibility for implementation and enforcement of regulations; states with this responsibility are referred to as "authorized'' or having "primacy.'' Although such decentralization may have benefits, it may also have costs with...

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Subsidiarity and the European Union

Inman, Robert P. - 1998

The European Union is at a crossroads. At issue will be each of the three decisions which define a federal constitution: the number of participating governments, the assignment of policy responsibilities to the new EMU, and the representation of local interests in, and the decision-making rules...

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Is It Is or Is It Ain't My Obligation? Regional Debt in a Fiscal Federation

Cooper, Russell - 2005

This paper studies the repayment of regional debt in a multi-region economy with a central authority: who pays the obligation issued by a region? With commitment, a central government will use its taxation power to smooth distortionary taxes across regions. Absent commitment, the central...

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Migration and Redistribution : Federal Governance of an Economic Union Matters

Razin, Asaf; Tsadḳah, Efrayim - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Both the U.S. and the EU are an economic union: There is a single market for goods, capital, finance, and labor. That ….S than of the EU. We argue, by using a model of a union exhibiting migration-based fiscal externality, that the degree of … between the EU and the US as economic unions: the generosity of the welfare state and the skill composition of migration …

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