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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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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 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

tax on a polluting input and reducing that on labor income. Households are fully mobile within the federation. Regions are …

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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

When confronted with market weaknesses and failures determining sustainability problems for environmental common-pool resources, economic analysis has proposed government intervention as the only alternative available. Elinor Ostrom showed that this dichotomy between market and government is not...

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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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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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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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