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environment debate. The paper concludes that the role of the precautionary principle in the application of the EC legislation is … trade and environment debate. …
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In this paper we investigate the relationship between inequality and the environment in a growing economy from a … the environment. Public expenditures may either be devoted to supporting growth or abating pollution. The decision over … and show that inequality is harmful for the environment: the poorer the median voter relative to the average individual …
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This paper studies energy bias in technical change. For this purpose, we develop a computable general equilibrium model that builds on endogenous growth models. The model explicitly captures links between energy, the rate and direction of technical change, and the economy. We derive the...
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This article demonstrates that when finite lifetime is introduced in a Lucas (1988) growth model, the environmental policy may enhance growth both in the short- and the long-run, while pollution does not influence educational activities, labor supply is not elastic and human capital does not...
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Since its first inception in the debate on the relationship between environment and growth in 1992, the Environmental …
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Combining unique data bases on emissions with sectoral output and employment data, we study the sources of the fall in world-wide SO2 emissions and estimate the impact of trade on emissions. Contrarily to concerns raised by environmentalists, an emission-decomposition exercise shows that scale...
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that the influence of environment on optimal growth in the long-run may be explained by the detrimental effect of pollution …
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This article investigates the influence of environmental policy on growth assuming that the channel of transmission relies on the link between pollution, health and the survival probability, in an overlapping generations model à la Blanchard (1985) where growth is driven by a mechanism à la...
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shows that, depending on the relative damage inflicted by the two industries on the environment, it is possible that the …
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&Gas industry and its links with the energy sector and the environment. In the next decade oil companies will have to deal with …
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