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Economy-wide impacts of REDD when there is political influence
Laing, Timothy; Palmer, Charles - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
National-level strategies for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD), financed by international transfers, have begun to emerge. A three-sector model is developed to explore the economy-wide effects of two policies implemented by a government participating in REDD that...
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Asymmetric industrial energy prices and international trade
Sato, Misato; Dechezlepretre, Antoine - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
This paper measures the response of bilateral trade flows to differences in industrial energy prices across countries. Using a panel for the period 1996-2011 including 42 countries, 62 sectors and covering 60% of global merchandise trade, we estimate the short-run effects of sector-level energy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011206864
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Effective carbon taxes and public policy options: insights from India and Pakistan
Ahmad, Ehtisham; Stern, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126236
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Complaints and inequality
Cowell, Frank; Ebert, Udo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
Temkin (1986,1993) sets out a philosophical basis for the analysis of income inequality that provides an important … axiomatic structure and we use this structure to derive a new class of inequality indices and an inequality ordering. This class … of indices has a family relationship to well-known measures of inequality, deprivation and poverty. The ordering is shown …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884654
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The subjective approach to the measurement of income inequality
Amiel, Yoram - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998
Inequality measurement involves explicit or implicit value judgements. The subjective approach to inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928600
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Growth and inequality: a demographic explanation
Miyazawa, Kazutoshi - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
This paper investigates the relationship between growth and inequality from a demographic point of view. In an extended … inequality is at first positive and then may be negative in the process of population aging. The results are consistent with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928630
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Empirics for growth and distribution
Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997
This paper studies cross-country patterns of economic growth from the viewpoint of income distribution dynamics. Such a perspective raises new empirical and theoretical issues in growth analysis: the profound empirical regularity is an \emerging twin peaks" in the cross-sectional distribution,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928725
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Inequality: measurement
Cowell, Frank - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
This article provides a brief overview of the key issues in inequality measurement and has been prepared for inclusion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928769
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A note on the estimation of intergenerational income correlations by the method of averaging
Abul Naga, Ramses H. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001
Averaging methods are routinely used in order to limit biases resulting from the mismeasurement of permanent incomes. The Solon/Zimmerman estimator regresses a single-year measurement of the child's resources on a T-period average of the parents' income while the Behrman/Taubman estimator...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928772
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Preference reversals and the analysis of income distributions
Amiel, Yoram; Cowell, Frank; Davidovitz, Leima; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
It is known from the literature on uncertainty that in cases where individuals express a preference for a high win-probability bet over a bet with high winnings they nevertheless will bid more to obtain the bet with high winnings. We investigate whether a similar phenomenon applies in the...
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