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On the relevance of exports for regional output growth in China
Dreger, Christian; Zhang, Yanqun - 2013
Despite high economic growth during the last decades, China is still vulnerable to shocks arising from industrial states. The advanced economies determine Chinese export performance, with subsequent effects on output growth. Using a production function approach, this paper examines to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009688451
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On the relevance of exports for regional output growth in China
Dreger, Christian; Zhang, Yanqun - 2013
Despite high economic growth during the last decades, China is still vulnerable to shocks arising from industrial states. The advanced economies determine Chinese export performance, with subsequent effects on output growth. Using a production function approach, this paper examines to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691629
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On the Relevance of Exports for Regional Output Growth in China
Dreger, Christian - 2013
Despite high economic growth during the last decades, China is still vulnerable to shocks arising from industrial states. The advanced economies determine Chinese export performance, with subsequent effects on output growth. Using a production function approach, this paper examines to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088137
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European regional convergence in a human capital augmented Solow model
Eckey, Hans-Friedrich (contributor);  … - 2006
In this paper, the process of productivity convergence is investigated for the enlarged European Union using regional … control for spatial effects. All specifications confirm the presence of convergence with an annual speed between 3 and 3 … in the speed of convergence across the regions, where a higher speed is striking in particular in France and the UK …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003387127
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Financing Public Capital through Land Rent Taxation: A Macroeconomic Henry George Theorem
Mattauch, Linus; Siegmeier, Jan; Edenhofer, Ottmar; … - CESifo - 2013
Financing productive public capital through distortionary taxes typically creates a trade-off: the optimal investment is determined as a compromise between efficiency-enhancing public investment and perturbing market efficiency, but is never socially optimal. In contrast, such a trade-off can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010668468
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Infrastructure and Inequality: Insights from Incorporating Key Economic Facts about Household Heterogeneity
Klenert, David; Mattauch, Linus; Edenhofer, Ottmar; … - CESifo - 2014
results are valid for both, the case of endogenous growth and the case of steady state convergence and do not require the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948809
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A Public Finance Perspective on Climate Policy: Six Interactions That May Enhance Welfare
Siegmeier, Jan; Mattauch, Linus; Franks, Max; Klenert, David - 2015
Climate change economics mostly neglects sizeable interactions of carbon pricing with other fiscal policy instruments. Conversely, public finance typically overlooks the effects of future decarbonization efforts when devising instruments for the major goals of fiscal policy. We argue that such a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307275
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Using Carbon Pricing Revenues to Finance Infrastructure Access
Jakob, Michael; Chen, Claudine; Fuß, Sabine; Marxen, Annika - 2015
Introducing a price on greenhouse gas emissions would not only contribute to reducing the risk of dangerous anthropogenic climate change, but would also generate substantial public revenues. Some of these revenues could be used to cover investment needs for infrastructure providing access to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451162
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Could Resource Rents Finance Universal Access to Infrastructure? A First Exploration of Needs and Rents
Fuß, Sabine; Chen, Claudine; Jakob, Michael; Marxen, Annika - 2015
It is often argued that, ethically, resource rents should accrue to all citizens. Yet in reality the rents from exploiting national resources are often concentrated in the hands of a few. If resource rents were to be taxed, on the other hand, substantial amounts of public money could be raised...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451165
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A Public Finance Perspective on Climate Policy: Six Interactions That May Enhance Welfare
Siegmeier, Jan; Mattauch, Linus; Franks, Max; Klenert, David - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2015
Climate change economics mostly neglects sizeable interactions of carbon pricing with other fiscal policy instruments. Conversely, public finance typically overlooks the effects of future decarbonization efforts when devising instruments for the major goals of fiscal policy. We argue that such a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268596