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From Green Users to Green Voters
Comin, Diego - 2013
We study the effect of the diffusion of photovoltaic (PV) systems on the fraction of votes obtained by the German Green Party in federal elections. Using both regional and household survey data, we show that households that adopted PV systems became more supportive of the Green Party. We...
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Policies for Green Design
Fullerton, Don - 1996
We analyze alternative policies such as a disposal content fee, a subsidy for recyclable designs, unit pricing of household disposal, a deposit-refund system, and a manufacturer `take-back' requirement. In order to identify the problem being addressed, we build a simple general equilibrium model...
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The Role of Technological Change in Green Growth
Popp, David - 2012
By reducing the costs of environmental protection, technological change is important for promoting green growth. This entails both the creation of new technologies and more widespread deployment of existing green technologies. This paper reviews the literature on environmentally friendly...
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Undisclosed Debt Sustainability
Alfaro, Laura - 2019
sustainability. Disclosure of nontraditional debt would imply significant welfare gains for the recipient countries but would reduce … its sustainability. We discuss the implications of nontraditional lending on standard assumptions of sovereign debt models …
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An Analysis of Puerto Rico's Debt Relief Needs to Restore Debt Sustainability
Gluzmann, Pablo A. - 2018
was certified in March 2017 for fiscal years 2017-18 to 2026-27. Second, we perform a Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA … that the island's current debt position is unsustainable, and compute the necessary debt relief to restore sustainability …
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A New Index of Debt Sustainability
Blanchard, Olivier J. - 2017
Debt sustainability is fundamentally a probabilistic concept: Debt is rarely sustainable with probability one. We … propose an index of external debt sustainability that reflects this uncertainty. Namely we construct the index as the … strong measures are potentially needed to reestablish sustainability. Exchange rates that appear overvalued in the baseline …
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Fiscal Stimulus and Fiscal Sustainability
Auerbach, Alan J. - 2017
sustainability along the metrics we study. Even in countries with high public debt, the penalty for activist discretionary fiscal …
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Fiscal Rules in India : Are They Effective?
Buiter, Willem H. - 2010
This paper, a chapter in the forthcoming Oxford University Press Handbook of the Indian Economy, edited by Chetan Ghate, considers India's experience with fiscal (responsibility) rules during the past decade. After reviewing the basic facts concerning public debt and deficits in India, the...
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The Environment and Directed Technical Change
Acemoglu, Daron - 2009
This paper introduces endogenous and directed technical change in a growth model with environmental constraints and limited resources. A unique final good is produced by combining inputs from two sectors. One of these sectors uses "dirty" machines and thus creates environmental degradation....
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Inflation Implications of Rising Government Debt
Giannitsarou, Chryssi - 2006
examine the channels through which governments achieve fiscal sustainability. We evaluate the ability of this framework to …
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