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The green paradox : a supply-side view of the climate problem
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2015
Why have policies aimed at reducing the demand for carbon not succeeded in slowing down global carbon extraction and CO2 emissions, and why have carbon prices failed to increase over the last three decades? This comment argues that this is because of the Green Paradox, i.e. - (the anticipation...
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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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Fuel efficiency improvements : feedback mechanisms and distributional effects in the oil market
Aune, Finn Roar; Bøeng, Ann Christin; Kverndokk, Snorre; … - 2015
efficiency improvements are policy-induced in certain regions of the world. We are especially interested in feedback mechanisms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309227
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Energy markets and global economic conditions
Baumeister, Christiane; Korobilis, Dimitris; Lee, Thomas - 2020
usefulness for forecasting real oil prices and global petroleum consumption. We find that world industrial production is one of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213172
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Total, asymmetric and frequency connectedness between oil and forex markets
Baruník, Jozef; Kočenda, Evžen - 2019
We analyze total, asymmetric and frequency connectedness between oil and forex markets using high-frequency, intra-day data over the period 2007 - 2017. By employing variance decompositions and their spectral representation in combination with realized semivariances to account for asymmetric and...
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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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Transboundary pollution control with both production and consumption emissions
Haruna, Shoji; Goel, Rajeev K. - 2023
This paper adds to the literature on transboundary pollution by considering pollution related to both production and … transboundary pollution to analyze the effects of trade liberalization on economic performance under two types of pollution. Our … pollution is considered. When trade liberalization policy is mutually implemented, consumer surplus and social environmental …
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How institutions shape land deals : the role of corruption
Bujko, Matthias; Fischer, Christian; Krieger, Tim; … - 2015
Large-scale land acquisitions often take place in developing countries which are also known for their corruption-friendliness caused by weak institutional frameworks. We hypothesize that corruption indeed leads to more land deals. We argue that corrupt elites exploit poor institutional setups...
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What drives the global land rush?
Arezki, Rabah; Deininger, Klaus W.; Selod, Harris - 2011
This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models are estimated using data on bilateral investment relationships, together with newly constructed indicators of agro-ecological suitability in areas with low population density as...
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Resource windfalls, macroeconomic stability and growth : the role of political institutions
Arezki, Rabah; Hamilton, Kirk; Kazimov, Kazim - 2011
We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the performance of commodity-exporting countries in terms of macroeconomic stability and economic growth in a panel of up to 129 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main findings are threefold. First, we find that overall government...
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