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analyse the effect of both, coal and oil on economic growth between 1900 and 2015, exploiting variation at the level of … European NUTS2 and NUTS3 regions. We show that the reversal of fortune of coal regions resulted from the second energy … transition. Specifically, an "oil invasion" in the early 1960s turned regional coal abundance from a blessing into a curse. Human …
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We incorporate Keeping-up-with-the-Joneses (KUJ) preferences into the Blanchard-Yaari (BY) framework and develop, using an AK technology, a model of balanced growth. In this context we investigate status preference, demographic, and pension policy shocks. We find that a higher degree of KUJ...
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to the People Republic of China (PRC) and ASEAN for assembly by lower-skilled workers. The finished products are then …
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Using the extended Ramsey rule, the socially efficient rate is the difference between a wealth effect and a precautionary effect of economic growth. This second effect is increasing in the degree of uncertainty affecting the future. In the literature, it is usually calibrated by estimating the...
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Existing growth research provides little explanation for the very large differences in long-run growth performance across OECD countries. We show that cognitive skills can account for growth differences within the OECD, whereas a range of economic institutions and quantitative measures of...
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Optimal climate policy is studied. Coal, the abundant resource, contributes more CO2 per unit of energy than the … exhaustible resource, oil. We characterize the optimal sequencing oil and coal and departures from the Herfindahl rule …. "Preference reversal" can take place. If coal is very dirty compared to oil, there is no simultaneous use. Else, the optimal …
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late breakthroughs most unilateral emission reductions may be negated abroad. Future coal liquefaction suggests negative …
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introduction of the Acid Rain Program in the U.S. as a case study. The theory predicts that owners of coal deposits, expecting … implementation; moreover, the incentive to increase supply would be stronger for owners of high-sulfur coal. This would, all else … equal, induce an increase in sulfur dioxide emissions. Using data on prices, heat input and sulfur content of coal delivered …
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Several European countries have decided to phase out coal power generation. Emissions from electricity generation are … already regulated by the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), and in some countries like Germany the phaseout of coal will be … accompanied with cancellation of emissions allowances. In this paper we examine the consequences of phasing out coal, both for the …
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We examine an open economy's strategy to reduce its carbon emissions by replacing its consumption of coal - very carbon …
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