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political economy perspective. We consider an endogenous growth economy, where growth generates pollution and a deterioration of … the environment. Public expenditures may either be devoted to supporting growth or abating pollution. The decision over …, the less she will tax and devote resources to the environment, preferring to support growth. …
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an income distribution and growth model. The reason to introduce capital scrapping results from the intuition of some …
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growth over the period 1981-2005. The econometric relationships derived in this paper suggest that future reductions in CO2 …
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We make use of a bootstrap panel analysis of causality between energy use and economic growth for a sample of sixteen … African countries over the period 1988-2010. Our results show that growth and energy use are strongly linked in Africa …. However, African countries are heterogeneous and there is no "one way" recommendation about energy-growth relationship that …
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We analyze the interplay between longevity, pollution and growth. We develop an OLG model where longevity, pollution … and growth are endogenous. The authorities may provide two types of public services, public health and environmental … maintenance, that participate to increase agents' life expectancy and to sustain growth in the long term. We show that global …
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uncertainty on capital inflows in such an economy generates long-term (expected) growth while the deterministic counterpart does … not. In this framework, long-term growth is entirely driven by precautionary savings. In particular, we show that the … asymptotic growth rate of the expected capital stock is an increasing function of both the risk parameter and the Arrow …
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growing economy, that is when population growth is optimal in the long-run, this egalitarian rule can only hold when (i) the …
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This work represent a very brief and complex (on the same time) presentation of the actual situation in some Balkan countries - especially Serbia, on their way to the European Union (EU). The aim is to present clearly the "European conditions" necessary to be fulfilled by candidate and potential...
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The paper investigates the impact of ownership concentration on GDP growth, for a sample of 18 OECD countries over the … period 1980 to 2004. The econometric analysis shows that more concentrated ownership can speed up growth, for countries … regulation, the logic of financial markets discipline applies and dispersed ownership appears as more favorable for growth. Based …
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Recently, many contributions have focused on the relationship between capital accumulation, growth and population … environmental concerns. One can therefore explain a simultaneous increase of capital intensity, population growth and pollution … capital intensity, population growth and pollution. …
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