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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 - HAL - 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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Trade and productivity: self-selection or learning-by-exporting in India

Haidar, Jamal Ibrahim - HAL - 2012

Recent literature tried to explain the Indian growth miracle in different ways, ranging from trade liberalization to industrial reforms. Using data on Indian manufacturing firms, this paper analyzes the relationship between firm's productivity and export market participation during 1991-2004....

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Are public transport improvements endogenous with respect to employment and income location in a city?

Bacares, Carlos Augusto Olarte - HAL - 2014

to infer causality of improvement of public transport. The size of companies, defined by the number of jobs they offer … largely defined by the level of improvement to urban public transport in each zone of the city but the causality relationship … seams to have a causality relationship with the income of inhabitants in each zone and the number of jobs, and this changes …

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A Behavioral Definition of States of the World

Vergopoulos, Vassili - HAL - 2014

This paper elaborates an axiomatic treatment of the Subjective Expected Utility (SEU) model that dispenses with the assumption of an exogenous state space. Within a state-free description of uncertainty and alternatives, axioms for preferences are formulated and shown to characterize the...

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Health, Work and Working Conditions: A Review of the European Economic Literature

Barnay, Thomas - HAL - 2014

, researchers control endogeneity skews (e.g., reverse causality, omitted variables) when conducting empirical analysis. With these …

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Oil Price and the Dollar

Coudert, Virginie; Mignon, Valérie; Penot, Alexis - HAL - 2008

exchange rate, expressed in real terms. To this end, weproceed to a cointegration and causality study between the two variables …. Our results indicate that causality runs from oil prices to the exchange rate and that the relationship between the two …

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Overcoming inertia: insights from evolutionary economics into improved energy and climate policy

Lazaric, Nathalie; Maréchal, Kevin - HAL - 2010

The mainstream view in economics has been a key factor in designing climate policies. Given that the controversy over the “efficiency paradox” has shown that mainstream economics is not neutral in the way it deals with climate change, the purpose of this paper is to investigate what insights...

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Social Capital as an Engine of Growth: Multisectoral Modelling and Implications

Bofota, Youyou Baende; Boucekkine, Raouf; Bala, Alain Pholo - HAL - 2012

We propose a multisector endogenous growth model incorporating social capital. Social capital only serves as input in the production of human capital and it involves a cost in terms of the final good. We show that in contrast to existing alternative specifications, this setting assures that...

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Effects of urbanization on economic growth and human capital formation in Africa

Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Youssef, Adel Ben; … - HAL - 2014

The objective of this paper is to investigate the impacts of urbanization on human capital andeconomic growth in Africa. It seeks to contribute to the urbanization-growth debate byinvestigating how urbanization is linked to human capital accumulation and economic growth.More precisely, compared...

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Financial integration and financial development in transition economies : what happens during financial crises ?

Brezigar-Masten, Arjana; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Masten, Igor - HAL - 2010

This papers provides an empirical analysis of the role of financial development and financial integration in the growth dynamics of transition countries. We focus on the role of financial integration in determining the impact of financial development on growth, distinguishing "normal times" from...

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