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Pandemic Meets Pollution: Poor Air Quality Increases Deaths by Covid-19
Isphording, Ingo E.; Pestel, Nico - 2020
We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of Covid-19 in Germany. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with information on local air quality and weather conditions and exploit short-term variation in the...
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When Labor Disputes Bring Cities to a Standstill: The Impact of Public Transit Strikes on Traffic, Accidents, Air Pollution, and Health
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - 2015
endanger public safety or health. We use time-series and cross-sectional variation in powerful registry data to quantify the …
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Global Air Quality Inequality over 2000-2020
Sager, Lutz - 2024
Air pollution generates vast health burdens and economic costs around the world. Pollution exposure varies greatly …
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Understanding the latest wave and future shape of regional trade and cooperation agreements in Asia
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2006
Asia accounts for more than 30% of world GDP and contributes half of the global growth in recent years. Despite high growth rates, Asia is still facing considerable socio-economic challenges. If Asia is to reemerge as a major power in the global economy and in order for the region to...
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Human capital and the Feldstein-Horioka puzzle
Katsimi, Margarita; Moutos, Thomas - 2007
In this paper we reexamine the Feldstein-Horioka finding of limited international capital mobility by using a broader view (i.e., including human capital) of investment and saving. We find that the Feldstein-Horioka result is impervious to this change.
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Optimal energy investment and R&D strategies to stabilise Greenhouse Gas atmospheric concentrations
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Massetti, Emanuele; … - 2007
effects of free-riding incentives in reducing emissions and in investing in R&D are taken into account. Technical change being …-term investment strategies for all available energy technologies are determined. The case of an unknown backstop energy technology is …
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The impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions: evidence from developing countries
Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2008
This paper analyzes the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions in developing countries, taking into account the … levels. Our results show that, whereas the impact of population growth on emissions is above unity and only slightly … different for upper, middle, and low- income countries, urbanization, demonstrate a very different impact on emissions for low …
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International energy R&D spillovers and the economics of greenhouse gas atmospheric stabilization
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Massetti, Emanuele; … - 2007
It is widely recognized that technological change has the potential to reduce GHG emissions without compromising …
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Promotion of trade and Investments between China and India : the case of Southwest China and East and Northeast India
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; De, Prabir - 2005
Open regionalism and integration between the world's two largest developing countries - the People's Republic of China (China) and India - in trade, investments and infrastructure development can foster outward-oriented development and economic and social benefits that could result in poverty...
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Discounting and welfare analysis over time: choosing the [eta]
Buchholz, Wolfgang; Schumacher, Jan - 2008
Based on the Ramsey equation and an ethically motivated rejection of pure utility time discount, the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change concentrates on the use of the elasticity of marginal utility ç in the intergenerational social welfare function. We support this position by...
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