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France's Environmental Policies: Internalising Global and Local Externalities
Egert, Balazs - CESifo - 2012
also at dealing with local air and water pollution, waste management and the conservation of biodiversity. The laws that …
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When Labor Disputes Bring Cities to a Standstill: The Impact of Public Transit Strikes on Traffic, Accidents, Air Pollution, and Health
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2015
20% increase in accident-related injuries, a 14% increase in particle pollution, and an 11% increase in hospital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265260
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Do they Know what's at Risk? Health Risk Perception among the Obese
Winter, Joachim; Wuppermann, Amelie C. - CESifo - 2012
accuracy of disease risk perceptions among obese individuals. We compare subjective risk perceptions for various diseases …
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Carbon Content of Electricity Futures in Phase II of the EU ETS
Fell, Harrison; Hintermann, Beat; Vollebergh, Herman R. J. - CESifo - 2013
We estimate the relationship between electricity, fuel and carbon prices in Germany, France, the Netherlands, the Nord Pool market and Spain, using one-year futures for base and peak load prices for the years 2009-2012, corresponding to physical settlement during the second market phase of the...
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Market Power in Emission Permit Markets: Theory and Evidence
Hintermann, Beat - CESifo - 2013
due to carbon risk. …
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CCS - Failing to Pass Decision Gates
Emhjellen, Magne; Osmundsen, Petter - CESifo - 2013
Socio-economic criteria for climate projects have been used in analysing the value of the climate benefit of a reduction in CO2. These reports are optimistic, yet CCS demonstration plants are not implemented as expected. Little attention has been devoted to profitability assessments based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877765
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877974
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Pass-through of CO2 Emission Costs to Hourly Electricity Prices in Germany
Hintermann, Beat - CESifo - 2014
I estimate the level of emissions cost pass-through to hourly wholesale electricity prices in Germany, based on spot market data. I control for contemporaneous shocks to demand and supply by constructing a detailed supply curve for fossil generation, and intersecting it with residual demand for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948833
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Energy Consumption, Economic Growth and CO2 Emissions in Middle East and North African Countries
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Youssef, Adel Ben; M'Henni, Hatem - CESifo - 2012
This article extends the recent findings of Liu (2005), Ang (2007), Apergis et al. (2009) and Payne (2010) by implementing recent bootstrap panel unit root tests and cointegration techniques to investigate the relationship between carbon dioxide emissions, energy consumption, and real GDP for 12...
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Pollution, Shadow Economy and Corruption: Theory and Evidence
Biswas, Amit K.; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Thum, Marcel - CESifo - 2011
We study how the shadow economy affects pollution and how this effect depends on corruption levels in public … be accompanied by higher pollution levels. Our theoretical model predicts that controlling the levels of corruption can … limit the effect of the shadow economy on pollution. We use panel data covering the period from 1999–2005 from more than 100 …
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