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Endogenous growth, green innovation and GDP deceleration in a world with polluting production inputs : conference paper

Burghaus, Kerstin; Funk, Peter - 2013 - This version: August 22nd, 2013, work in progress

We study economic growth and pollution control in a model with endogenous rate and direction of technical change …. Economic growth (growth of real GDP) results from growth in the quantity and productivity of polluting intermediates. Pollution … can be controlled by reducing the pollution intensity of a given quantity through costly research (green innovation) and …

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Decomposing Inequality in CO 2 emissions : the role of primary energy carriers and economic sectors ; conference paper

Grunewald, Nicole; Jakob, Michael; Mouratiadou, Ioanna - 2013

Emission inequality across countries and the contribution of the energy mix and the sectoral composition of a country s energy use are of central importance to the climate debate. We analyze the evolution of inequality in global CO2 per capita emissions using both historical data on...

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Will skyscrapers save the planet? : conference paper

Borck, Rainald - 2014 - Preliminary and incomplete

This paper studies the effectiveness of building height limits as a policy to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It shows that building height limits lead to urban sprawl and higher emissions from commuting. On the other hand, aggregate housing consumption may decrease which reduces emissions...

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The growth drag of pollution : conference paper

Schäfer, Andreas - 2014 - This version: February 2014

emergence of differential fertility, but also for agents' exposure to environmental pollution because wealthier households live … effect of inequality and pollution on economic growth is amplified, if the population group that is least affected decides …

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Green cities? : urbanization, trade and the environment : conference paper

Borck, Rainald; Pflüger, Michael - 2013 - Preliminary and incomplete, March 1, 2013

We study environmental pollution in an economic geography framework with two cities, where pollution arises from … energy use. We find that city size has an ambiguous effect on pollution levels. We also analyse how pollution changes with …

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Counting carbon in global trade : why imported emissions challenge the climate regime and what might be done about it : an essay series

Krishnan, Aarti (ed.); Maxwell, Simon (ed.) - Workshop on "Certification as a Route to Reducing the …; … - 2020

The foundations of the climate regime are under threat, with significant implications for developing countries. This set of essays identifies two main threats to the climate regime. The first is the growing importance of emissions traded across national borders, currently accounting for up to...

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Decomposing the impact of population growth on environmental deterioration

Gans, Oskar; Jöst, Frank - 2005

The IPAT-model developed by Ehrlich and Holdren is widespread in ecological economics in order to quantify the impact of population growth on environmental deterioration. We comment on this model and extensions proposed by several authors from a theoretical and empirical point of view.

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Environmental and population externalities

Jöst, Frank; Quaas, Martin F. - 2006

In this paper, we investigate the external effects of the parent's decisions on the number of newly born children and the firm's decisions on the amount of polluting emissions that occur in industrial production. We employ an optimal control model which comprises three stock variables...

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Environmental problems and economic development in an endogenous fertility model

Jöst, Frank; Quaas, Martin F.; Schiller, Johannes - 2006

the relationships between population development, economic dynamics and environmental pollution are complex due to various … long-run steady state is optimal that is characterized by a stable pollution stock, and by population and economic growth …

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Sustaining a federation of Future Internet experimental facilities

Van Ooteghem, Jan; Taylor, Steve; Grace, Paul; Lobillo, … - 2014

The growing complexity of the Future Internet landscape has driven the need for large-scale federations of experimental testbeds that support the next generation of research and experimentation. However, such facilities are typically difficult to sustain in the long term, particularly in the...

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