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Energy Consumption and Economic Growth Revisited in African Countries
Eggoh, Jude C.; Bangaké, Chrysost; Rault, Christophe - CESifo - 2011
The aim of this paper is to provide new empirical evidence on the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth for 21 African countries over the period from 1970 to 2006, using recently developed panel cointegration and causality tests. The countries are divided into two groups:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320785
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The Environmental and Macroeconomic Effects of Socially Responsible Investment
Dam, Lammertjan; Heijdra, Ben J. - CESifo - 2008
for environmental pollution when holding firm equity, they require a premium on the return to equity. We show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196236
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645652
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Simulating with RICE Coalitionally Stable Burden Sharing Agreements for the Climate Change Problem
Eyckmans, Johan; Tulkens, Henry - CESifo - 1999
In this paper we test empirically with the Nordhaus and Yang (1996) RICE model the core property of the transfer scheme adv ocated by Germain, Toint and Tulkens (1997). This scheme is designed to sustain full cooperation in a voluntary international environmental agreement by making all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765829
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Democracy, Inequality and the Environment when Citizens can Mitigate Privately or Act Collectively
Bernard, Sophie; Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - CESifo - 2010
either mitigate the health consequences of domestic pollution privately or reduce pollution collectively through public … ordinary citizens. The recognition that the health consequences of pollution can be dealt with privately at a cost adds an … private mitigation is feasible, inequality of incomes leads to an unequal distribution of the health burden of pollution (in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008727301
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Learning Abatement Costs: On the Dynamics of Optimal Regulation of Experience Goods
Hintermann, Beat; Lange, Andreas - CESifo - 2012
We study the introduction of new technologies when their costs are subject to idiosyncratic uncertainty and can only be fully learned through individual experience. We set up a dynamic model of clean experience goods that replace old polluting consumption options and show how optimal regulation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010603856
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Corrective Taxation for Curbing Pollution and Promoting Green Product Design and Recycling
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2000
which exhibits distortions due to pollution, external landfilling costs and inefficient product design. The allocative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766303
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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
afford private mitigation of the adverse consequences of pollution is a central feature of the analysis. Private mitigation … leads to an endogenous, unequal distribution of the health-related consequences of pollution across income groups in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094435
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Nonlinear Production, Abatement, Pollution and Materials Balance Reconsidered
Pethig, Rüdiger - CESifo - 2005
pollution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181310
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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 … water pollution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406345