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addition to conventional factors of production to output growth, and thus it should be accounted for in total factor … productivity growth (TFPG) measurement and deducted from the .residual. A theoretical framework of growth accounting methodology … from a panel of 23 OECD countries, we show that emissions. growth have a statistically significant contribution to the …
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North and South. Instrumental variables estimates show that social capital affects growth both directly and through … growth in the Italian regions. …
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The standard neoclassical growth model with Cobb-Douglas production predicts a monotonically declining saving rate … data. We introduce two non-standard features of preferences into a neoclassical growth model with CES production …
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The standard neoclassical growth model with Cobb-Douglas production predicts a monotonically declining saving rate …, implies transitional dynamics of the saving rate that accords well with empirical evidence. This holds true even in a growth …
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This paper aims to enrich the standard toolbox for measuring diversity in economics. In so doing, we compare the indicators of diversity used by economists with those used by biologists and ecologists. Ecologists and biologists are concerned about biodiversity: the diversity of organisms that...
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that the influence of environment on optimal growth in the long-run may be explained by the detrimental effect of pollution … on life expectancy. It also shows that, in such a case, greener preferences are growth- and welfare-improving even if the …
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This article investigates the influence of environmental policy on growth assuming that the channel of transmission … (1985) where growth is driven by a mechanism à la Romer (1986). We demonstrate that environmental policy has an ambiguous … effect on growth in the steady-state when the detrimental impact of pollution on health and lifetime is taken into account …
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Data on the growth performances of countries with similar comparative (dis)advantage and political institutions reveal … a striking variation across world regions. While some former autocracies such as the East Asian growth miracles have …
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degradation increases in the early stages of growth, but it eventually decreases as income exceeds a threshold level. The present …
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Over the last two decades in OECD countries an increasing number of firms are obtaining certification as Socially Responsible (CSR is the acronym for Corporate Social Responsibility). Several studies (including Preston and O’Bannon, 1997; Waddock and Graves, 1997; McWilliams and Sieger, 2001; Ullman,...
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