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Berlingieri, Giuseppe - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper investigates the impact of outsourcing on sectoral reallocation in the U.S. over the period 1947-2007, and on the rise in services in particular. Roughly 40% of the growth of the service sector comes from professional and business services. This is an unusual industry as more than 90%...

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Agricultural returns and conflict: quasi-experimental evidence from a policy intervention programme in Rwanda

Kondylis, Florence - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

In 1997 Rwanda introduced a re-settlement policy for refugees displaced during previous conflicts. We exploit geographic variation in the speed of implementation of this policy to investigate the impact of conflict-induced displacement and the re-settlement policy on household agricultural...

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Regional growth and national development: transition in Central and Eastern Europe and the regional Kuznets curve in the East and the West

Monastiriotis, Vassilis - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Regional disparities in Central and Eastern Europe rose substantially since 1990. Still, prima facie evidence of beta-convergence is often found in the CEE data. To reconcile this seeming paradox, we sketch out and test empirically a hybrid model of regional growth that draws on the regional...

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The bright side of social capital: how 'bridging' makes Italian provinces more innovative

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Gagliardi, Luisa; Percoco, Marco - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

Social capital has remained relatively underexplored in innovation literature. Existing studies have failed to reach a consensus on its impact on local innovative performance: some empirical analyses emphasize a positive effect, others speak about a ‘dark side’ of social capital. This paper...

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Sustainability and well-being indicators

Neumayer, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper provides a review and critical discussion of indicators, which attempt to combine the measurement of sustainability with that of well-being. It starts with some commonly agreed definitions of sustainability, showing how most well-being indicators tell us little if anything at all...

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Integrated EUA and CER price modeling and application for spread option pricing

Barrieu, Pauline; Fehr, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

In this paper we propose a market consistent futures price dynamics model for cap-andtrade schemes, designed in the spirit of the European Union’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). Historical price dynamics for the EU ETS suggest that, both, European emission Allowances (EUAs) and Certified...

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Environmental services and poverty alleviation: either, or, or both?

Groom, Ben; Palmer, Charles - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

Payments for environmental services (PES) schemes in developing countries face trade-offs between environmental and …

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Raising finance to support developing country action: some economic considerations

Bowen, Alex - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

This article explores the principles that should guide efforts to raise finance for climate action in developing countries. The main conclusions are that, first, there is an important role for private finance, which would be facilitated by having pervasive and broadly uniform emissions pricing...

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Combining multiple climate policy instruments: how not to do it

Fankhauser, Samuel; Hepburn, Cameron; Park, Jisung - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

tools to achieve this, for example by complementing cap-and-trade schemes with a carbon tax, or with a feed-in tariff. Often … falling too low. This paper reviews the implications for the carbon price of combining cap-and-trade with other policy … instruments. We find that price intervention may not always have the desired effect. Simply adding a carbon tax to an existing cap-and-trade …

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‘Teach in’ on energy and existing homes: restoring neighbourhoods and slowing climate change

Power, Anne; Lane, Laura; Serle, Nicola - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

Homes that have already built account for 99% of our total housing stock. We estimate that 86% of the current stock will still be in use in 2050. Building new homes is carbon intensive and implies many wider environmental impacts. But the existing stock can be made more efficient, at a...

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