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We develop an overlapping generations model where consumption is the source of polluting emissions. Pollution stock … and vanishes beyond a critical level of pollution. We first show that multiple equilibria exist. More importantly, some … exhibit irreversible pollution levels although an abatement activity is operative. Thus, the simple engagement of maintenance …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show that the environmental income drives economic growth of a large open country.Design/methodology/approach – The authors detect that the relative environmental income has double effect of “conspicuous consumption” on the international...
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Preserving environmental quality and addressing economic inequality both feature prominently in public discourse. Neither of these two issues can be fully understood in isolation, and policies aiming at one issue will increasingly have to consider interactions with the other. We synthesize...
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The objective of this paper is to provide an axiomatic foundation to the concept of ecological footprint indices. For this purpose, we propose five axioms representing general properties which any ecological footprint measure should fulfill. It can be shown that there exists a unique index which...
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Preserving environmental quality and addressing economic inequality both feature prominently in public discourse. Neither of these two issues can be fully understood in isolation, and policies aiming at one issue will increasingly have to consider interactions with the other. We synthesize...
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We study the welfare, energy poverty, and CO2 emission implications of energy price change scenarios in Indonesia. Our … money‐metric utility effects and look at energy poverty, which is understood as the absence of or imperfect access to … substantial effects on energy poverty. Fourth, our analysis explicitly considers the emissions effects of energy price scenarios …
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This paper calculates the CO2e (CO2 equivalents) footprint of private consumption in the EU27 by five groups of household income, using a fully fledged macroeconomic input-output model covering 59 industries and five groups of household income for the EU27. Due to macroeconomic feedback...
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This paper introduces a theory-based equivalence scale for public in-kind transfers, which justifies comparison of …, education and childcare expenditure on estimates of income inequality and poverty for 24 European countries. The empirical … results show significant effects of public in-kind transfers on the level of income inequality and poverty for all countries …
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