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Impact of Cultural Tourism Upon Urban Economies : An Econometric Exercise
Bellini, Elena; Gasparino, Ugo; Del Corpo, Barbara; … - 2014
In recent years, interest in tourism has spread rapidly throughout many small and medium European cities, which previously have not necessarily considered themselves as tourist destinations. Tourism is increasingly seen as a potential lever towards high economic growth, measured both in terms of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014224398
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Bioenergy and CO2 Sequestration : Climate Policies Beyond Technological Constraints
Bibas, Ruben - 2013
This paper examines the role of electricity production from biomass with and without carbon capture and storage in sustaining low CO2 emission pathways to 2100. It quantifies the effect of the availability of biomass resources and technologies within a general equilibrium framework. Biomass-fed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089314
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Drought and Civil War in Sub-Saharan Africa
Couttenier, Mathieu; Soubeyran, Raphael - 2013
In this paper, we show that drought has a positive effect on the incidence of civil war over the 1945-2005 period in Sub-Saharan Africa. We use the Palmer Drought Severity Index which is a richer measurement of drought than the measures used in the literature (rainfall and temperature) as it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014187497
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Legal Families and Environmental Protection : Is there a Causal Relationship?
Di Vita, Giuseppe - 2010
explaining the variations in pollution emissions in different countries. The main intuition behind our analysis is that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050423
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Understanding Long-Term Energy Use and Carbon Dioxide Emissions in the USA
Tol, Richard S. J. - 2013
We compile a database of energy uses, energy sources, and carbon dioxide emissions for the USA for the period 1850-2002. We use a model to extrapolate the missing observations on energy use by sector. Overall emission intensity rose between 1850 and 1917, and fell between 1917 and 2002. The...
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Unravelling the Worldwide Pollution Haven Effect
Grether, Jean-Marie; Mathys, Nicole A.; De Melo, Jaime - 2011
This paper tackles the 'pollution haven' argument by estimating the pollution content of imports (PCI). The PCI is then … endowment component and a 'pollution haven' component reflecting the impact of differences in environmental policies. The …. Decompositions based on cross-section econometric estimates suggest a significant pollution haven effect which increases the PCI of …
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Optimal Emission Policy Under the Risk of Irreversible Pollution
Ayong le Kama, Alain; Pommeret, Aude; Prieur, Fabien - 2011
We consider an optimal consumption and pollution problem that has two important features. Environmental damages due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014185878
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Polluters and Abaters
Nimubona, Alain-Désiré; Sinclair-Desgagné, Bernard - 2011
To comply with laws, regulations and social demands, polluting firms increasingly purchase the needed means from specialized suppliers. This paper analyzes this relatively recent phenomenon. We show how environmental regulation, the size of the output market, the elasticity of demand for...
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Emissions Pricing to Stabilize Global Climate
Bosetti, Valentina; Paltsev, Sergey V.; Reilly, John M.; … - 2014
In the absence of significant greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation, many analysts project that atmospheric concentrations of species identified for control in the Kyoto protocol could exceed 1000 ppm (carbon-dioxide-equivalent) by 2100 from the current levels of about 435 ppm. This could lead to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014042096
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Atmospheric Pollution and Consumption Patterns in Spain : An Input-Output Approach
Serrano, Mònica; Roca Jusmet, Jordi - 2013
survey statistics and environmental pollution satellite accounts into an environmental extended input-output model. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014049790