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Does a Tougher Environmental Policy Raise Unemployment? Optimal Taxation, Public Goods and Environmental Policy With Rationing of Labour Supply

Bovenberg, A Lans; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

The implications of more environmental concern for the optimal provision of public goods, taxation, environmental policy and involuntary unemployment are derived within a second-best framework in which lump-sum taxes and subsidies are not available and labour supply is rationed due to a rigid...

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Innovative Activity in Wind and Solar Technology: Empirical Evidence on Knowledge Spillovers Using Patent Data

Braun, Frauke G; Schmidt-Ehmcke, Jens; Zloczysti, Petra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper studies technological change in renewable energies, providing empirical evidence on the determinants of innovative activity with a special emphasis on the role of knowledge spillovers. We investigate two major renewable energy technologies wind and solar across a panel of 21 OECD...

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The Burden of Proof in National Treatment Disputes and the Environment

Horn, Henrik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

know the motives for policies that are allegedly pursued to protect the environment, but that also give commercial …

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The Environment and Directed Technical Change

Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Bursztyn, Leonardo; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper introduces endogenous and directed technical change in a growth model with environmental constraints. A unique final good is produced by combining inputs from two sectors. One of these sectors uses "dirty" machines and thus creates environmental degradation. Research can be directed...

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Trade Liberalization and Globalization: A Survey

Hillman, Arye L. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper presents a survey of the literature on trade liberalization and globalization. The questions are why trade liberalization occurred, why trade liberalization took the form of reciprocity combined with multilateralism, why the liberalization allows for protectionist policies, and why...

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Economic Growth, Environmental Issues and Trade

Anderson, Kym - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

in an attempt to impose one's own standards on another country's environment, or when trade liberalization is opposed by … coal and food, trade liberalization could well improve rather than worsen the global environment. …

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Pollution and Growth: What Do We Know?

Grossman, Gene - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

water quality. Pollution may rise with growth, because an increased scale of economic activity means more emissions, ceteris …

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Trade, Technique and Composition Effects: What is Behind the Fall in World-wide SO2 Emissions, 1990-2000?

de Melo, Jaime; Grether, Jean-Marie; Mathys, Nicole Andréa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

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 … reduction in emissions. A second exercise comparing the actual trade situation with an autarky benchmark estimates that trade …

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Climate, ecosystem resilience and the slave trade

Fenske, James; Kala, Namrata - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

African societies exported more slaves in colder years. Lower temperatures reduced mortality and raised agricultural yields, lowering slave supply costs. Our results help explain African participation in the slave trade, which predicts adverse outcomes today. We use an annual panel of African...

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Environmental Policy and Directed Technical Change in a Global Economy: The Dynamic Impact of Unilateral Environmental Policies

Hemous, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper builds a two-country (North, South), two-sector (polluting, nonpolluting) trade model with directed technical change, examining whether unilateral environmental policies can ensure sustainable growth. The polluting good is produced with a clean and a dirty input. I show that a...

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