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Enforcement and Environmental Quality in a Decentralized Emission Trading System

Valentini, Edilio; D'Amato, Alessio - 2014

This paper addresses the issue of whether the powers of monitoring compliance and allocating tradeable emissions allowances within a federation of countries should be appointed to a unique federal regulator or decentralized to several local regulators. To this end, we develop a two stage game...

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Enforcement and environmental quality in a decentralized emission trading system

D'Amato, Alessio; Valentini, Edilio - 2008

, it is not also a necessary condition. -- Emissions Trading ; Environmental Federalism ; Enforcement ; Monitoring Cost …

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Carbon adjustment mechanisms : empirics, design and caveats

Garnadt, Niklas; Grimm, Veronika; Reuter, Wolf Heinrich - 2020 - Working paper version December 2020

This article explores the design of Carbon Adjustment Mechanisms based on an analysis of historical data, the existing literature as well as theoretical considerations. In the empirical analysis we quantify territorial emissions as compared to the CO2 footprints for countries within the EU-ETS...

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Trade liberalization and SO2 emissions : firm-level evidence from China's WTO entry

Li, Lei; Löschel, Andreas; Pei, Jiansuo; Sturm, Bodo; … - 2020

Is trade liberalization contributing to cleaner production amongst manufacturing firms? Theoretical predictions and empirical evidences are mixed. This study utilizes China's dual trade regime and China's WTO entry in 2001 to construct a unique micro dataset on manufacturing firms for China for...

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Trade liberalization and SO2 emissions : firm-level evidence from China's WTO entry

Li, Lei; Löschel, Andreas; Pei, Jiansuo; Sturm, Bodo; … - 2020

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Trade policy uncertainty, offshoring, and the environment : evidence from US manufacturing establishments

Choi, Jaerim; Hyun, Jay; Kim, Gueyon; Park, Ziho - 2023

We study long-run environmental impacts of trade liberalization on US manufacturing by exploiting a plausibly exogenous reduction in US trade policy uncertainty: the conferral of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China. Using detailed data on establishment-level pollution emissions and...

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The Effect of Allowing Pollution Offsets with Imperfect Enforcement

Sigman, Hilary - 2014

in enforcement may lead regulators to restrict the use of offsets. In this paper, we demonstrate that allowing offsets … may increase pollution abatement and reduce illegal pollution, even if the government has a fixed enforcement budget. We … explore the circumstances that may make it preferable to allow offsets when enforcement is costly …

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An empirical study of US environmental federalism : RCRA enforcement from 1998 to 2011

Sjöberg, Eric; Xu, Jing - In: Ecological economics : the transdisciplinary journal of … 147 (2018), pp. 253-263

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The Clean Air Act Watch List and federal oversight of state enforcement efforts

Evans, Mary F.; Stafford, Sarah L. - In: Journal of environmental economics and management : … 93 (2019), pp. 170-184

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Chapter 8. The Political Economy of Environmental Policy

Oates, Wallace E.; Portney, Paul R. - In: Handbook of environmental economics : volume 1, …, (pp. 325-354). 2003

This chapter provides a review and assessment of the extensive literature on the political determination of environmental regulation. A promising theoretical literature has emerged relatively recently that provides models of the political interaction of government with various interest groups in...

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