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A Microfoundation of Predator-Prey Dynamics
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2003
behave as if they maximize their net biomass subject to constraints which express the organisms' risk of being preyed upon … during predation. Like consumers, organisms face a 'budget constraint' requiring their expenditure on prey biomass not to … exceed their revenue from supplying own biomass. Short-run ecosystem equilibria are defined and derived. The net biomass …
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Wood-Based Bioenergy
Hoel, Michael; Sletten, Thea Marcelia - 2014
During recent years increased attention has been given to second-generation wood-based bioenergy. The carbon stored in the forest is highest when there is little or no harvest from the forest. Increasing the harvest from a forest, in order to produce more bioenergy, may thus conflict with the...
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The Rise and Fall of Bioenergy
Hoel, Michael Olaf - 2018
If bioenergy has a less negative impact on the climate than fossil energy, it may be optimal to have a significant increase in the use of bioenergy over time. Due to the difference in the way the climate is affected by the two types of energy, the future time path of the use of bioenergy may be...
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Skill, Innovation and Wage Inequality: Can Immigrants be the Trump Card?
Das, Gouranga Gopal; Marjit, Sugata - 2018
’ skill in R&D activities and intensity of inputs. Inclusive immigration policy requires inter-sectoral diffusion of ideas …
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The deepening China Brazil economic relationship
Whalley, John; Medianu, Dana - 2010
We document key features of the deepening economic relationship between Brazil and China. This is evident from sharply increased bilateral trade and foreign direct investment flows and also from enhanced cohesion of negotiating positions in international fora. Data presented show bilateral trade...
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The Circular Economy
Fullerton, Don - 2024
Research about the circular economy is dominated by engineers, architects, and social scientists in fields other than economics. The concepts they study can be useful in economic models of policies – to reduce virgin materials extraction, to encourage green design, and to make better use of...
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Environmental Economics: The 50th Anniversary of the Birth of This Field around the First Earth Day
Fullerton, Don - 2020
How was the birth of "Environmental Economics" related to the first Earth Day fifty years ago (April 22, 1970)? This short note introduces some ideas about an amazing burst of intellectual activity from 1968 to 1974. Environmental economics was not a field of economics before this brief period,...
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Sudden Stop: When Did Firms Anticipate the Potential Consequences of Covid-19?
Buchheim, Lukas; Krolage, Carla; Link, Sebastian - 2020
declined and business uncertainty increased only when the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic led to domestic policy changes: The …, business perceptions hardly reacted to any other potential source of information: Firms did not learn from foreign policy … expectations and uncertainty, albeit to a much lesser extent than the domestic policy changes. …
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SCARE: When Economics Meets Epidemiology with Covid-19
de Palma, André; Picard, Nathalie; Proost, Stef - 2020
the Belgian lockdown policy is negative for low valuations of life years lost. The gains of extending the Belgian lockdown … policy are negative even for high valuation of life. …
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Weeding out the Dealers? The Economics of Cannabis Legalization
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Mesnard, Alice; Perrault, Tiffanie - 2020
proposed policy mix can control the increase in cannabis consumption post-legalization and throttle the illegal market. The … opted for legalization, leaving room for the black market to flourish. Analyzing the compatibility of several policy goals …
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