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This study is aimed to examine the causal relationship between economic growth, energy consumption and emissions in Bahrain. As required by the Kyoto Protocol where Bahrain has ratified in 2006, it is to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This study uses Toda and Yamamoto’s (1995) approach...
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increasing. To account for the change in CO2 emission, we have followed index decomposition analysis using data from the PROWESS … database of the Center for Monitoring Indian Economy. Two factors are considered to account for the changes in emission … in reducing emission as compared to the output shifts across the sectors. Based on the findings and international …
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of carbon emission reduces the nominal GDP by 0.82% and exports by 2.08%; a 2.34% reduction of carbon emission reduces … the nominal GDP by 1.90% and exports by 3.97%and a 3.40% reduction of carbon emission reduces the nominal GDP by 3.17% and …
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sources of emission and 15 sensitive receptor sites. For the purpose of national policy making and international negotiation … reducing emissions from each point source, it was felt necessary to design a method to generate cost functions for emission … regions. The objective of this study was to develop aggregate cost functions that relate the cost of SO2 emission reductions …
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debt in most OECD countries. Spending for environmental protection contributes to reduced emission of CO2 in all regions of … Asia/Pacific and Southern regions of Western Europe. The findings also indicated that in regions where emission of SO2 is … the greatest, harvesting of forests increased while fish catches declined. Emission of NOx is associated with increases in …
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, environmental quality, and emission of pollutants and selected socioeconomic variables for selected OECD regions. Path or causal …
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Consumers often purchase more than one differentiated product, assembling a portfolio, which might potentially affect substitution patterns of demand and, as a consequence, oligopolistic firms’ pricing strategies. To study such consumers’ portfolio considerations, this paper...
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In this paper we present a continuous time model with reversible abatement capital in order to analyze the effects of environmental policies on the value of the firm and investment decisions. We show that the effects depend on what sort of future policy are implemented. We focus on investment...
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This paper draws on institutional and evolutionary economics and contributes to an approach to environmental policy which diverges from mainstream prescriptions. The 'socio-technical system' is the core concept: this is a complex made of co-evolving institutions, technologies, markets and actors...
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Using a technology where pollution is regarded as by-product of industry's activity and applied in a simple setup of Heckscher-Ohlin-Copeland-Taylor model, this paper analyses the possible distributional impacts of stricter environmental policy in a developing country characterized by the...
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