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Turn off the faucet : solving excess water consumption with individual meters

Carrillo, Paul E.; Contreras, Ivette; Scartascini, Carlos G. - 2021

When consumption of water and other utilities is measured collectively and payment for such services is equally shared … installation of individual meters affects water consumption. Using rich administrative data from the public water utility company … in Quito, Ecuador, it is estimated that water consumption decreases by about 8% as a result of the introduction of …

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Embedding landfill diversion in economic, geographical and policy settings panel based evidence from Italy

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montini, Anna; Nicolli, Francesco - 2008

considered given that Italy is a main country in the EU. Thus it offers important pieces on information on the evaluation of …

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Demand or supply? : an empirical exploration of the effects of climate change on the macroeconomy

Ciccarelli, Matteo; Marotta, Fulvia - 2021 - This version: December 7, 2021

Using a panel of 24 OECD countries for the sample 1990-2019 and a standard macroeconomic framework, the paper tests the combined macroeconomic effects of climate change, environmental policies and technology. Overall, we find evidence of significant macroeconomic effects over the business cycle:...

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Better to grow or better to improve? : measuring environmental efficiency in OECD countries with a Stochastic Environmental Kuznets Frontier

Badunenko, Oleg; Galeotti, Marzio; Hunt, Lester C. - 2021

The standard approach to the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) holds that as a country develops and GDP per capita grows environmental degradation initially increases but eventually it reaches a turning point where environmental degradation begins to decline. Environmental degradation takes many...

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