“Development Empirics”特別講座第13期🫰🏼💜：What  is  Environmental  Justice  and  Why  Economists  Should  Care?

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Christopher D. Timmins是杜克大學經濟系的教授🕸，NBER環境和能能源組的研究員。他的研究領域包括能源和環境經濟學🌌、產業組織、公共和區域經濟學等。他目前擔任American Economic Review的編委以及Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists的副主編，也是多本環境👮🏿‍♂️、城市和應用微觀學術期刊的匿名審稿人。

論文摘要:

Firms can learn about new technologies from other adopters, though they do not always exploit this form of social learning. We examine whether shale gas operators took advantage of environmentally-focused disclosure laws to learn from competitors and improve productivity; with this information, we evaluate the claim that chemical disclosure rules expose valuable trade secrets. We exploit an unusual regulatory episode in Pennsylvania that allows us to see chemical inputs prior to public disclosure. Using detailed data on well-level inputs and outputs, we study how the change in disclosure regime affected operators' chemical use and well productivity.