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The Determinants of Individuals’ Attitudes Towards Preventing Environmental Damage

Torgler, Benno; Garcia-Valiñas, Maria A. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

This paper investigates empirically the determinants of individuals’ attitudes towards preventing environmental damage in Spain using data from the World Values Survey and European Values Survey for the periods 1990, 1995 and 1999/2000. Compared to many previous studies, we present a richer...

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Macroeconomic Implications of Demography for the Environment: A Life-Cycle Perspective

Pautrel, Xavier - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

This article studies how demography affects the outcome of the environmental policy in a macro-economic perspective, incorporating age-earning profiles in an OLG model à la Blanchard (1985) to capture the age structure effect of the demographic shocks. It first demonstrates, conversely to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012136

Total Factor Productivity Growth and the Environment: A Case for Green Growth Accounting

Xepapadeas, Anastasios; Tzouvelekas, E.; Vouvaki, D. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

We examine whether the use of the environment, proxied by CO2 emissions, as a factor of production contributes, in … with environment as a factor of production which is unpaid in the absence of environmental policy is developed. Using data … environment as a not fully compensated factor of production. Our results point towards the need for developing a concept of "Green …

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The Effects of Environmental Regulation on Technology Diffusion: The Case of Chlorine Manufacturing

Snyder, Lori; Miller, Nolan; Stavins, Robert - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2003

We use a hazard model to estimate the effect of environmental regulation on the diffusion of membrane cell production technology in the chlorine manufacturing industry. We estimate the effect of regulation on both the adoption of the membrane technology at existing plants and on the exit of...

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Taxing Tourism in Spain: Results and Recommendations

Labandeira, Xavier; Gago, Alberto; Picos, Fidel; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

, increases social welfare and has no effect on the environment. On the other hand, an increase of VAT rates on tourism …

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Environmental Quality and Long Run Tourism Development a Cyclical Perspective for Small Island Tourist Economies

Maupertuis, Marie-Antoinette; Giannoni, Sauveur - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2005

As tourism is becoming one of the most important sectors of the world economy, the number of small islands trying to develop a competitive tourist activity is increasing and this strategy appears as growth enhancing. In most cases, it is built on the environmental quality of the destination but...

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Desperately Seeking (Environmental) Kuznets

Galeotti, Marzio; Lanza, Alessandro - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 1999

The number of studies seeking to empirically characterize the reduced-form relationship between a country's economic growth and the quantity of various pollutants produced has recently increased significantly. In several cases researchers have found evidence in favor of an inverted-U...

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Reconsidering The Impact of Environment on Long-Run Growth When Pollution Influences Health and Agents Have Finite-Lifetime

Pautrel, Xavier - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

that the influence of environment on optimal growth in the long-run may be explained by the detrimental effect of pollution …

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Pollution, Health and Life Expectancy: How Environmental Policy Can Promote Growth

Pautrel, Xavier - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2007

This article investigates the influence of environmental policy on growth assuming that the channel of transmission relies on the link between pollution, health and the survival probability, in an overlapping generations model à la Blanchard (1985) where growth is driven by a mechanism à la...

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Renewable Resources, Pollution and Trade in a Small Open Economy

Rus, Horatiu A. - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

shows that, depending on the relative damage inflicted by the two industries on the environment, it is possible that the …

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