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Determining the Environmental Effects of Indirect Subsidies

Beers, Cees van; Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den; Moor, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

Up to now a clear theoretical and methodological framework for economic-environmental analysis of environmentally damaging subsidies is lacking. Environmentally damaging subsidies are all kinds of direct and indirect subsidies aimed at achieving a certain (often non-environmental) goal that...

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Sustainable Nations: What do Aggregate Indicators tell us?

Pillarisetti, J. Ram; Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in Environment, Development and Sustainability, 2010, 12(1), 49 … compares three aggregate indicators of sustainability: the World Bank’s ‘Genuine Savings’ measure, the ‘Ecological Footprint …’ and the ‘Environmental Sustainability Index’. It is concluded that rankings of sustainable nations vary significantly …

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The Interest Rate and Capital Durability, and the Importance of Methodological Pluralism

Arkel, Roder van; Vermeylen, Koen - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

Champions of sustainable growth often call for more durable production technologies with less capital depreciation. As investment in more durable capital is encouraged by lower interest rates, we investigate whether policy makers can steer the economy towards a path with low interest rates in...

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Evolutionary Thinking in Environmental Economics

Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M. van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

Evolutionary and environmental economics have a potentially close relationship. This paper reviews past and identifies potential applications of evolutionary concepts and methods to environmental economics. This covers a number of themes: resource use and ecosystem management; growth and...

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In Search of Creative Champions in High-Tech Spaces

Kourtit, Karima; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

The business performance of firms in the creative high-tech sector shows much variation. This paper examines whether the geographical location of such business firms influences the performance of these firms. The overarching analysis framework of this paper emerges from the recently developed...

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Global and Regional Impacts of the Clean Development Mechanism

Wang, Shunli; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Nijkamp, Peter; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

Climate change is a serious concern worldwide. Policy research on climate change in the past decades has largely focused on applied modelling exercises. However, the implications of specific policy strategies such as the clean development mechanism (CDM) for global and regional economic and...

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Crowding Perception in a Tourist City: A Question of Preference

Neuts, Bart; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

Two main topics are analysed in this paper: a crowding model for an urban destination is tested by the use of a binary logistic model in order to identify the variables influencing crowding perception; and the inherent negativity of the crowding concept, as is often assumed, is examined through...

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Modelling Tourism Development and Long-run Economic Growth in Aruba

Ridderstaat, Jorge; Croes, Robertico; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

See also the article 'Tourism and Long-run Economic Growth in Aruba' in the International Journal of Tourism Research (2014). Volume 16, issue 5, pages 472-487. Tourism has over the past decades turned into a core activity for accelerated growth. The purpose of this study is to determine the...

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The Economics of Transboundary River Management

Ansink, Erik; Houba, Harold - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014

specific attention to the efficiency, sustainability, and fairness of solutions to this model. We compare and contrast both …

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Geographical Economics and the Role of Pollution on Location

Marrewijk, Charles van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

Geographical economics analyzes the endogenous determination of the location of economic activity in a general equilibrium framework. We investigate the impact of pollution by focusing on the interaction between location advantages and negative pollution externalities associated with local...

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