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-off between the agglomeration and dispersion forces, in the form of pollution from stationary forces, environmental policy …
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use induces a pollution which is accentuated by the soil fragility. We show, at the steady state, that the environmental … tax induces a more conservative farmer behavior for soil, but in some cases it can exacerbate pollution. These effects can …
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For the past two decades, China has experienced strong, continuous economic growth. At the same time, the number of … motor vehicles in China has rapidly increased. As a direct result of such a phenomenon, China has been registering … significant increases in air pollution. In spite of recent advances in air pollution control, it remains a serious problem for …
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on air pollution from 1990-99. While starting out in 1985 as a tax levied only on emissions of sulphur dioxide (SO2 … volatile organic compounds (VOC). The revenues of the French tax on air pollution were earmarked for abatement subsidies and …
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steady-state growth rate and lifetime welfare, whatever the source of pollution. We also demonstrate that the intertemporal … the source of pollution is output. …
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This paper examines the macroeconomic effects of an environmental tax reform in a growing economy. A model of endogenous growth based on human capital accumulation is used to numerically simulate the growth effects of different environmental tax reforms and compute their impact on welfare in the...
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The iron and steel industry is one of the most carbon emitting and energy consuming sectors in Europe. At the same time this sector is of high economic importance for the European Union. Therefore, while public environmental and energy policies target this sector, there is political concern that...
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Industrial pollution can have damaging effects on resource-based productive sectors. International trade creates …
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is that the EKC is examined in the presence of pollution as a by product of consumption activities; also, pollution is a … environment, consumers do not consider directly pollution in the maximization problem and are assumed to choose between two … that substitution of dirty consumption with clean consumption alone is not sufficient to reduce environmental pollution …
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In the last few years, several studies have found an inverted-U relationship between per capita income and environmental degradation. This relationship, known as the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC), suggests that environmental degradation increases in the early stages of growth, but it...
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