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The Environmental Kuznets Curve and Sustainability: A Panel Data Analysis

Farhani, Sahbi; Mrizak, Sana; Chaibi, Anissa; Rault, … - CESifo - 2014

In recent years, sustainability has represented one of the most important policy goals explored in the environmental … specification, namely modified EKC (MEKC), we show that there is an inverted U-shape relationship between sustainability and human …. More interestingly, findings from the estimation show that EKC hypothesis, HD and sustainability are crucial to build …

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Justifying Social Discounting: The Rank-Discounted Utilitarian Approach

Zuber, Stéphane; Asheim, Geir B. - CESifo - 2010

The discounted utilitarian criterion for infinite horizon social choice has been criticized for treating generations unequally. We propose an extended rank-discounted utilitarian (ERDU) criterion instead. The criterion amounts to discounted utilitarianism on non-decreasing streams, but it treats...

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Capacity Decisions with Demand Fluctuations and Carbon Leakage

Meunier, Guy; Ponssard, Jean-Pierre - CESifo - 2014

For carbon-intensive, internationally-traded industrial goods, a unilateral increase in the domestic CO2 price may result in the reduction of the domestic production but an increase of imports. In such sectors as electricity, cement or steel, the trade flows result more from short-term regional...

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Per-Capital Income as a Determinant of International Trade and Environment Policies

Markusen, James R. - CESifo - 2014

International trade policy analysis has tended to focus on the production side of general equilibrium, with policies such as a tariff or carbon tax affecting international and internal income distributions through a Heckscher-Ohlin nexus of factor intensities and factor endowments. Here I move...

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An Environmental-Economic Measure of Sustainable Development

Cairns, Robert D.; Martinet, Vincent - CESifo - 2013

. This paper investigates the relationship among current consumption, sacrifice, and sustainability improvement in a general … sustainability improvement. It is called durable savings to distinguish it from genuine savings, usually computed with discounted …

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Trade and the Environment: The Role of Firm Heterogeneity

Kreickemeier, Udo; Richter, Philipp M. - CESifo - 2012

This paper derives a new effect of trade liberalisation on the quality of the environment. We show that in the presence of heterogeneous firms the aggregate volume of emissions is influenced not only by the long-established scale effect, but also by a reallocation effect resulting from an...

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Energy Use and Economic Growth in Africa: A Panel Granger-Causality Investigation

Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Youssef, Adel Ben; M'Henni, Hatem - CESifo - 2014

We make use of a bootstrap panel analysis of causality between energy use and economic growth for a sample of sixteen African countries over the period 1988-2010. Our results show that growth and energy use are strongly linked in Africa. However, African countries are heterogeneous and there is...

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Global Warming and a Potential Tipping Point in the Atlantic Thermohaline Circulation: The Role of Risk Aversion

Belaia, Mariia; Funke, Michael; Glanemann, Nicole - CESifo - 2014

Common integrated assessment models produce the counterintuitive result that higher risk aversion does not lead to stronger near-term abatement. This paper re-examines this result with a DICE model that is fully coupled with a thermohaline circulation model. It also features Epstein-Zin utility...

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Trade Restrictiveness Indices in Presence of Externalities: An Application to Non-Tariff Measures

Beghin, John; Disdier, Anne-Célia; Marette, Stéphan - CESifo - 2014

We extend the trade restrictiveness index approach to the case of market imperfections and domestic regulations addressing them. We focus on standard-like non-tariff measures (NTMs) affecting cost of production and potentially enhancing demand by reducing negative externalities. We apply the...

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Driving Factors of Carbon Dioxide Emissions and the Impact from Kyoto Protocol

Grunewald, Nicole; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - CESifo - 2009

In the last two decades increasing attention has been paid to the relationship between environmental degradation and economic development. According to the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis this relationship may be described by an inverted-U curve. However, recent evidence rejects the...

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