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Policies for a More Dematerialized EU Economy : Theoretical Underpinnings, Political Context and Expected Feasibility
Bigano, Andrea - 2017
Economic activities affect the environment through a multiplicity of channels. Besides generating GHG emissions that induce climatic changes, every modern economy is connected to the environment throughout a continuous flow of materials. To generate economic wealth, a modern economy demands...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969215
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Uniqueness and Indeterminacy of Equilibria in a Model with Polluting Emissions
Bella, Giovanni - 2006
Is pollution a dirty word? To answer this question we develop an endogenous growth model a la Rebelo (1991) where dirtiness becomes a fundamental choice variable for the economy to grow. Conclusions to our analysis say that a positive sustainable economic growth is attainable only if polluting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014059567
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The Basilicata Wealth Fund : Resource Policy and Long-Run Economic Development in Southern Italy
Iacono, Roberto - 2016
exploit revenues from large-scale extraction of natural capital. Establishing a wealth fund at the regional sub-national level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001041
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Capital Accumulation, Green Paradox, and Stranded Assets : An Endogenous Growth Perspective
Jin, Wei - 2019
perspective that focuses on capital accumulation with investment irreversibility. We show that if 1) direct irreversibility of … investment does not rule out the indirect channel of converting dirty capital goods into clean ones through final goods … allocations, and 2) interactions between dirty and clean capital as imperfect substitutes can generate reciprocal effects, then …
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Environmental Kuznets Curves for Carbon Emissions : A Critical Survey
Aslanidis, Nektarios - 2013
The empirical finding of an inverse U-shaped relationship between per capita income and pollution, the so-called Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC), suggests that as countries experience economic growth, environmental deterioration decelerates and thus becomes less of an issue. Focusing on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014201546
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Production Functions for Climate Policy Modeling : An Empirical Analysis
van der Werf, Edwin - 2008
-level CES production functions with capital, labour and energy as inputs, and is the first to systematically compare all nesting … structures. Using industry-level data from 12 OECD countries, we find that the nesting structure where capital and labour are …
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On the Robustness of Robustness Checks of the Environmental Kuznets Curve
Galeotti, Marzio; Manera, Matteo; Lanza, Alessandro - 2013
Since its first inception in the debate on the relationship between environment and growth in 1992, the Environmental Kuznets Curve has been subject to continuous and intense scrutiny. The literature can be roughly divided in two historical phases. Initially, after the seminal contributions,...
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Environmental and Energy Implications of Meat Consumption Pathways in Sub-Saharan Africa
Falchetta, Giacomo; Golinucci, Nicolò; Noussan, Michel; … - 2021
In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) diets are largely based on cereal or root staple crops. Together with socio-cultural change, economic and demographic growth could boost the demand for meat, with significant environmental repercussions. We model meat consumption pathways to 2050 for SSA based on...
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Sustainability and Optimality in Economic Development : Theoretical Insights and Policy Prospects
Farzin, Y. Hossein - 2007
This paper takes sustainability to be a matter of intergenerational welfare equality and examines whether an optimal development path can also be sustainable. It argues that the general "zero-net-aggregate-investment" condition for an optimal development path to be sustainable in the sense of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014225087
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Natural Resources Dynamics : Another Look
DiVita, Giuseppe - 2013
In this paper we study the problem of exhaustible resources and renewable resources in a theoretical endogenous growth framework, under various assumptions. In particular, we consider the hypotheses that those two inputs are or are not technologically perfect substitutes of each other. Moreover,...
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