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Ecosystems and Human Health : The Local Benefits of Forest Cover in Indonesia
Garg, Teevrat - 2019
This paper documents the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased incidence of malaria. The evidence is consistent with an ecological response. I show that land use change, anti-malarial programs or migration cannot explain the effect of primary forest cover loss on increased malarial...
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How Large are Global Energy Subsidies?
Coady, David P. - 2016
This paper estimates fossil fuel subsidies and the economic and environmental benefits from reforming them, focusing mostly on a broad notion of subsidies arising when consumer prices are below supply costs plus environmental costs and general consumption taxes. Subsidies are $4.9 trillion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994355
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Pricing the Ecosystem and Taxing Ecosystem Services : A General Equilibrium Approach
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rudiger - 2021
In an integrated dynamic general equilibrium model of the economy and the ecosystem humans and wildlife species compete for land and prey biomass. We introduce a competitive allocation mechanism in both submodels such that economic prices and ecosystem prices guide the allocation in the economy...
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Satisfaction with Democracy and the Environment in Western Europe – a Panel Analysis
Wagner, Alexander F.; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo - 2006
higher where (1) there exists an energy / CO2 tax, where (2) government expenditures on the environment are higher, where (3 …
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The Demands for Environmental Regulation and for Trade in the Presence of Private Mitigation
Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - CESifo - 2008
equilibrium of a small open economy where the environment is an input to production. Differences in the ability of individuals to … role in the determination of collective choices with respect to the regulation of the environment and of trade. We conclude … by drawing out the implications of the analysis for the study of the political economy of the environment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094435
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Economic, Demographic and Political Determinants of Pollution Reassessed: A Sensitivity Analysis
Gassebner, Martin; Lamla, Michael; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - CESifo - 2006
Recent literature proposes many variables as significant determinants of pollution. This paper gives an overview of this literature and asks which of these factors have an empirically robust impact on water and air pollution, i.e. do not depend upon the conditioning information set. For this, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406345
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Pollution Permits, Strategic Trading and Dynamic Technology Adoption
Moreno-Bromberg, Santiago; Taschini, Luca - CESifo - 2011
This paper analyzes the dynamic incentives for technology adoption under a transferable permits system, which allows for strategic trading on the permit market. Initially, firms can invest both in low-emitting production technologies and trade permits. In the model, technology adoption and...
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Home-ownership and unemployment : a French test of the Oswald hypothesis
Sari, Florent - In: Revue d'économie régionale & urbaine : RERU (2015) 1/2, pp. 211-249
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Age Biased Technical and Organisational Change, Training and Employment Prospects of Older Workers
Behaghel, Luc - 2011
We analyse the role of training in mitigating the negative impact of technical and organizational changes on the employment prospects of older workers. Using a panel of French firms in the late 1990s, we first estimate wage bill share equations for different age groups. Consistently with what is...
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Aggregation in Large Dynamic Panels
Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011
concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to …
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