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The Motivation behind Behavioral Thresholds: A Latent Class Approach
Ito, Nobuyuki; Takeuchi, Kenji; Tsuge, Takahiro; … - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 3, pp. 1831-1847
This paper extends Ito et al. (2010) to reveal whether altruism is an underlying motive of the behavioral thresholds. We also investigate the influence of environmental concern as one of the underlying motives of them. Applying contingent valuation (CV) methods, we conducted a stated preference...
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Threshold Effects of Economic Growth on Air Pollution under Regimes of Corruption
Chang, Shu-Chen; Chang, Teng-Yu - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 1, pp. 1046-1059
pollution under regimes of corruption. A threshold and bootstrap approach is used to test whether the threshold effects exist in … a pollution model. Our results show that economic growth has a single threshold effect on CO2 and N2O emissions, while …
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The Environmental Consequences of Economic Growth Revisited
Kim, Hyun S; Baek, Jungho - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 2, pp. 1198-1211
Although numerous studies on the economic growth-environment nexus exist, relatively little attention has been paid to model the effect of income on the environment, controlling for other relevant factors. The primary contribution of this paper is to examine the environmental consequences of...
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Energy use and economic growth in Africa: a panel Granger-causality investigation
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Youssef, Adel Ben; M'Henni, Hatem - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 2, pp. 1247-1258
We make use of a bootstrap panel analysis of causality between energy use and economic growth for a sample of sixteen African countries over the period 1988-2010. Our results show that growth and energy use are strongly linked in Africa. However, African countries are heterogeneous and there is...
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Switching to biomass co-firing in European coal power plants: Estimating the biomass and CO2 breakeven prices
Bertrand, Vincent - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 2, pp. 1535-1546
This paper investigates the cost of biomass co-firing in European coal plants. We propose an original method to get expressions of biomass and CO2 breakeven points: carbon switching price and biomass switching price. They correspond to carbon and biomass prices that make coal plants equally...
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A cost analysis of the Copenhagen emission reduction pledges
Ricci, Olivia; Selosse, Sandrine - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 1, pp. 764-771
As part of the Copenhagen Accord, countries have submitted emission reduction pledges for 2020. Using a long term optimisation model (TIAM-FR), we evaluate the implications of these submissions for emission reductions, carbon prices and total cost of the energy system. Our study finds that the...
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Co2 emissions, energy imports, economic growth in pakistan: causality analysis
Anees, Muhammad - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 1, pp. 6-6
Following the most followed time series econometric methodology of ARDL and Granger causality, this paper will explore the relationships among the important energy market variables for Pakistan being a major importer of oil and energy products. It is expected that controlling for imports of oil...
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The relationships between corruption and pollution on corruption regimes
Chang, Shu-Chen; Chang, Teng-yu - In: Economics Bulletin 30 (2010) 3, pp. 1942-1949
Previous studies have focused mainly on the effect of corruption on pollution. The results of these studies show an … inverted U-shaped relationship between economic growth and pollution. In addition, some researchers have suggested that … corruption plays an important role in determining pollution. This study proposes the hypothesis of a nonlinear long …
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Environmental technology transfer in a Cournot duopoly: the case of fixed-fee licensing
Miyaoka, Akira - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 4, pp. 2253-2266
transfer technology and the firms' total pollution level, and examine the properties of the optimal emissions tax policy. We … increase in the total pollution level. We also find that as the degree of the initial technology gap between firms widens, the …
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Some implications of design element choice when combining a green quota with a system of feed-in tariffs
Currier, Kevin - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 3, pp. 1723-1732
Concerns about carbon emissions from fossil fuel-based electricity generation have led to interest in the promotion of “renewable energy.” Around the world, many countries now employ “renewable portfolio standards” or “green quotas,” which stipulate a minimum percentage of total...
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