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Desperately Seeking (Environmental) Kuznets

Galeotti, Marzio; Lanza, Alessandro - 1999

The number of studies seeking to empirically characterize the reduced-form relationship between a country's economic growth and the quantity of various pollutants produced has recently increased significantly. In several cases researchers have found evidence in favor of an inverted-U...

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The Environmental Kuznets Curve: A Survey of the Literature

Borghesi, Simone - 1999

In the last few years, several studies have found an inverted-U relationship between per capita income and environmental degradation. This relationship, known as the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC), suggests that environmental degradation increases in the early stages of growth, but it...

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On the Robustness of Robustness Checks of the Environmental Kuznets Curve

Galeotti, Marzio; Manera, Matteo; Lanza, Alessandro - 2006

Since its first inception in the debate on the relationship between environment and growth in 1992, the Environmental Kuznets Curve has been subject to continuous and intense scrutiny. The literature can be roughly divided in two historical phases. Initially, after the seminal contributions,...

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Law, finance, economic growth and welfare: why does legal origin matter?

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2011

This paper proposes and empirically validates four theories of why legal origin influences growth and welfare through finance. It is a natural extension of "Law and finance: why does legal origin matter?" by Thorsten Beck, Asli Demirgüç-Kunt and Ross Levine (2003). We find only partial support...

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Corruption, economic growth and the informal sector: Empirical evidence from developing countries

Ngouhouo, Ibrahim; Njoya, Loudi; Asongu, Simplice - 2022

The main objective of this paper is to contribute to in-depth literature on the relationship between growth and the informal sector in the presence of corruption. The impact of the interaction between growth and corruption on economic performance (increase or decrease of the informal sector)...

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The role of economic prosperity on informality in Africa: Evidence of corruption thresholds from PSTR

Njoya, Loudi; Ngouhouo, Ibrahim; Asongu, Simplice; … - 2022

This paper is interested in explaining the causes of the simultaneous evolution between economic growth and informality. Using a large annual panel of African countries with a time series of 25 years, ours results show that when the corruption rate is above (below) a threshold of 1.3577,...

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Natural Resources, Innovation, and Growth

Papyrakis, Elissaios; Gerlagh, Reyer - 2004

This paper investigates the connection between resource abundance and innovation, as a transmission mechanism that can …, consumers trade off leisure versus consumption, and firms trade off innovation efforts versus manufacturing. For this model, we … indirectly by inducing a smaller proportion of the labor force to engage in innovation. …

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Spatial development

Desmet, Klaus; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - 2010

We present a theory of spatial development. A continuum of locations in a geographic area choose each period how much to innovate (if at all) in manufacturing and services. Locations can trade subject to transport costs and technology diffuses spatially across locations. The result is an...

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Knowing the right person in the right place: Political connections and economic growth

Bellettini, Giorgio; Ceroni, Carlotta Berti; Prarolo, … - 2009

low-quality producers to defend their monopoly position and prevent innovation and entry of high-quality competitors … politician secures re-election by setting high bureaucratic costs and firms invest in network blocking innovation and entry …

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