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Airline fuel usage and carbon emissions : determining factors
Brueckner, Jan K.; Abreu, Chrystyane - 2016
Using annual data on individual US airlines over the 1995-2015 period, this paper presents regression results relating an airline's total fuel usage to seven variables: the available ton miles of capacity (passengers plus freight and mail) provided by the airline; the average seat capacity of its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518130
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Buffering volatility : a study on the limits of Germany's energy revolution
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2016
Based on German hourly feed-in and consumption data for electric power, this paper studies the storage and buffering needs resulting from the volatility of wind and solar energy. It shows that joint buffers for wind and solar energy require less storage capacity than would be necessary to buffer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011488155
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A beam of light : media, tourism & economic development
Nocito, Samuel; Sartarelli, Marcello; Sobbrio, Francesco - 2021
Tourism accounts for around one tenth of global GDP. We analyze the impact of entertainment media in drawing tourists … to filming locations (media multiplier ) and, in turn, the effect of tourism on local economic development (tourism … factor of 2.5. Furthermore, we provide evidence of positive spillovers in nearby municipalities. To estimate the tourism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012510008
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The process of economic development in West Sichuan : the case of Daocheng County
Holz, Carsten A. - 2020
Economic development of a remote, mountainous region is a challenge for any country. This paper examines how this development challenge has been addressed in a high-altitude backward region of the People's Republic of China. Is this region increasingly being left behind or has it entered a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012165995
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Environmental policy and innovation : a decade of research
Popp, David - 2019
Encouraging innovation is an important part of environmental policy. A large literature in environmental economics examines the links between environmental policy and innovation. This paper reviews recent literature on green innovation. I highlight major trends in the literature, including an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011983674
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Pollution and city size : can cities be too small?
Borck, Rainald; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - 2016
We study the optimal and equilibrium size of cities in a city system model with environmental pollution. Pollution is …, if pollution is local or per capita pollution increases with population, we find that equilibrium cities are too large …. When pollution is global and per capita pollution declines with city size, however, equilibrium cities may be too small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011554401
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Corrective taxation for curbing pollution and promoting green product design and recycling
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2000
which exhibits distortions due to pollution, external landfilling costs and inefficient product design. The allocative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781631
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Smart cap
Karp, Larry S.; Traeger, Christian - 2021
We introduce a "smart" cap and trade system that eliminates the welfare costs of asymmetric information (“uncertainty”). This cap responds endogenously to technology or macroeconomic shocks, relying on the market price of certificates to aggregate information. It allows policy makers to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012438358
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COVID-19 mortality and contemporaneous air pollution
Austin, Wes; Carattini, Stefano; Gomez Mahecha, John; … - 2020
robust to a host of sensitivity tests. These results suggest that air pollution plays an important role in mediating the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012298669
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Public transport and urban pollution
Borck, Rainald - 2017
The paper studies the effect of public transport policies on urban pollution. It uses a quantitative equilibrium model … with residential choice and mode choice. Pollution comes from commuting and residential energy use. The model parameters … transport coupled with increasing transit speed affects the equilibrium. In the baseline simulation, total pollution falls by 0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011717025