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On the policy implications of changing longevity
Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2012
Our societies are witnessing a steady increase in longevity. This demographic evolution is accompanied by some convergence across countries, whereas substantial longevity inequalities persist within nations. The goal of this paper is to survey some crucial implications of changing longevity on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621750
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Population, population density, and technological change
Klasen, Stephan; Nestmann, Thorsten - 2004
In a model on population and endogenous technological change, Kremer combines a short-run Malthusian scenario where income determines the population that can be sustained, with the Boserupian insight that greater population spurs technological change and can therefore lift a country out of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449334
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Pollution, shadow economy and corruption : theory and evidence
Biswas, Amit K.; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Thum, Marcel - 2011
We study how the shadow economy affects pollution and how this effect depends on corruption levels in public … be accompanied by higher pollution levels. Our theoretical model predicts that controlling the levels of corruption can … limit the effect of the shadow economy on pollution. We use panel data covering the period from 1999-2005 from more than 100 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009375247
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The environmental Kuznets curve and sustainability : a panel data analysis
Farhani, Sahbi; Mrizak, Sana; Chaibi, Anissa; Rault, … - 2014
In recent years, sustainability has represented one of the most important policy goals explored in the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. But related hypotheses, performance measures and results continue to present a challenge. The present paper contributes to this ongoing literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350476
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Reforms of environmental policies in the presence of cross-border pollution and two-stage clean-up
Hatzipanayotou, Panos; Lahiri, Sajal; Michael, Michael S. - 2002
We construct a two-country model where pollution from production is transmitted across borders. Pollution abatement is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408787
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Public policies and long-run growth in a model with environmental degradation
Bonatti, Luigi; Lorenzetti, Lorenza Alexandra - 2022
We study how public policies affects an economy where production emits pollutants and investment in productive assets raises the economy’s overall productivity. We explore two hypotheses about how the accumulation of pollutants affects human well-being. Under the first one, there is no limit...
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Inequality and the environment : the economics of a two-headed hydra
Drupp, Moritz A.; Kornek, Ulrike; Meya, Jasper; Sager, Lutz - 2021
Preserving environmental quality and addressing economic inequality both feature prominently in public discourse. Neither of these two issues can be fully understood in isolation, and policies aiming at one issue will increasingly have to consider interactions with the other. We synthesize...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012694139
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Pricing pollution
Mideksa, Torben K. - 2020
its intensity (i.e., the tax rate or the quota level) to price pollution. When countries price pollution non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213052
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Annuity market imperfection, retirement and economic growth
Heijdra, Ben J.; Mierau, Jochen O. - 2009
We study the effects of an annuity market imperfection on individual agents' labour supply and retirement decisions and on the macroeconomic growth rate in an overlapping generations model with endogenous growth. We model imperfect annuities by introducing a load factor on the interest rate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003871897
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Economic growth and longevity risk with adverse selection
Heijdra, Ben J.; Reijnders, Laurie S. M. - 2009
We study a closed economy featuring heterogeneous agents and exhibiting endogenous economic growth due to interfirm external effects. Individual agents differ in terms of their mortality profile. At birth, nature assigns a health status to each agent. Health type is private information and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923599