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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012711627
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Legal Families and Environmental Protection : Is there a Causal Relationship?
DiVita, 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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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...
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The Public Management of Risk : Separating Ex Ante and Ex Post Monitors
Hiriart, Yolande - 2010
When a firm undertakes risky activities, the conflict between social and private incentives to implement safety care requires public intervention which can take the form of both monetary incentives but also ex ante or ex post monitoring, i.e., before or after an accident occurs. We delineate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135482
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The Effect of Allowance Allocations on Cap-and-Trade System Performance
Hahn, Robert W. - 2010
can establish the overall pollution-reduction goal for a cap-and-trade system by setting the cap, and leave it up to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013140027
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Who Should Bear the Cost of China’s Carbon Emissions Embodied in Goods for Exports?
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2013
has given rise to unprecedented environmental pollution and CO2 emissions. While estimates of the embedded CO2 emissions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092142
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Consumption and Precautionary Saving : An Empirical Analysis Under Both Financial and Environmental Risks
Baiardi, Donatella - 2014
This paper studies the empirical relationship between consumption and saving under two different sources of uncertainty: financial risk and environmental risk. The analysis is carried out using time series data for six advanced economies in the period 1965-2007. The results support the...
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Economic Growth and the Environment with Clean and Dirty Consumption
Orecchia, Carlo - 2014
is that the EKC is examined in the presence of pollution as a by product of consumption activities; also, pollution is a … environment, consumers do not consider directly pollution in the maximization problem and are assumed to choose between two … that substitution of dirty consumption with clean consumption alone is not sufficient to reduce environmental pollution …
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