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Growth, Foreign Direct Investment and Urban Concentrations: Unbundling Spatial Lags

Poelhekke, Steven; Ploeg, Frederick Van der - CESifo - 2008

Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear that primacy eventually hurts growth performance. Since it is tough to interpret cross-country growth regressions, we provide detailed evidence on the determinants of outward FDI...

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Do Large Cabinets Favor Large Governments? Evidence from Swiss Sub-Federal Jurisdictions

Schaltegger, Christoph A.; Feld, Lars P. - CESifo - 2004

interact with fragmentation in determining government size. The empirical study of the role of fragmented governments for …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094240

Economic Challenges in the Anthropocene

Musu, Ignazio - CESifo - 2013

countries, compatible with the sustainability of the processes concerning the Earth system. Mainly by focusing on the energy-environment …

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Environmental Tax Reform in a Federation with Rent-Induced Migration

Garon, Jean-Denis; Séguin, Charles - CESifo - 2015

We study the welfare effects of a revenue-neutral green tax reform in a federation. The reform consists of increasing a tax on a polluting input and reducing that on labor income. Households are fully mobile within the federation. Regions are unequally endowed with a nonrenewable natural...

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Tipping versus Cooperating to Supply a Public Good

Barrett, Scott; Dannenberg, Astrid - CESifo - 2015

In some important multi-player situations, such as efforts to supply a global public good, players can choose the game they want to play. In this paper we conduct an experimental test of the decision to choose between a “tipping” game, in which every player wants to contribute to the public...

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Economic Analysis, Sustainability and Environmental Commons

Musu, Ignazio - CESifo - 2013

focusing on an active role of communities, social norms and a polycentric system of governance. This paper summarizes the main …

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Satisfaction with Democracy and the Environment in Western Europe – a Panel Analysis

Wagner, Alexander F.; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2006

higher where (1) there exists an energy / CO2 tax, where (2) government expenditures on the environment are higher, where (3 …

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The Demands for Environmental Regulation and for Trade in the Presence of Private Mitigation

Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - CESifo - 2008

equilibrium of a small open economy where the environment is an input to production. Differences in the ability of individuals to … role in the determination of collective choices with respect to the regulation of the environment and of trade. We conclude … by drawing out the implications of the analysis for the study of the political economy of the environment …

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Economic, Demographic and Political Determinants of Pollution Reassessed: A Sensitivity Analysis

Gassebner, Martin; Lamla, Michael; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - CESifo - 2006

Recent literature proposes many variables as significant determinants of pollution. This paper gives an overview of this literature and asks which of these factors have an empirically robust impact on water and air pollution, i.e. do not depend upon the conditioning information set. For this, we...

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Pollution Permits, Strategic Trading and Dynamic Technology Adoption

Moreno-Bromberg, Santiago; Taschini, Luca - CESifo - 2011

This paper analyzes the dynamic incentives for technology adoption under a transferable permits system, which allows for strategic trading on the permit market. Initially, firms can invest both in low-emitting production technologies and trade permits. In the model, technology adoption and...

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