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Is free trade good for the environment?
Antweiler, Werner; Copeland, Brian Richard; Taylor, … - In: The American economic review 91 (2001) 4, pp. 877-908
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Life Expectancy and the Environment
Mariani, Fabio - 2009
We present an OLG model in which life expectancy and environmental quality dynamics are jointly determined. Agents may invest in environmental care, depending on how much they expect to live. In turn, environmental conditions affect life expectancy. As a result, our model produces a positive...
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Economic Growth and Pollutant Emissions : New Panel Evidence from the Union for the Mediterranean Countries
Ben Abdeljelil, Mouna; Rault, Christophe; Bélaïd, Fateh - 2023
This paper investigates the existence of an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) and its robustness for 28 countries of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) over the recent period. Our methodology relies on four recent estimation methods for non-stationary panel data and includes four pollutants...
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Climate change policy after Kyoto
Metcalf, Gilbert E. (contributor) - In: The American economic review 104 (2014) 5, pp. 552-574
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Pandemic Meets Pollution : Poor Air Quality Increases Deaths by Covid-19
Isphording, Ingo E. - 2020
We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany … patients (80+ years): higher levels of air pollution by one standard deviation 3 to 12 days after developing symptoms increase … deaths by 30 percent (males) and 35 percent (females) of the mean. In addition, air pollution raises the number of confirmed …
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Growth, pollution, and life expectancy : China from 1991-2012
Ebenstein, Avraham; Fan, Maoyong; Greenstone, Michael; … - In: The American economic review 105 (2015) 5, pp. 226-231
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The Extractive Industry's Impact on Economic Growth in SADC Countries
Nhabinde, S. - 2020
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries are rich in natural resources and in most of them their extractive industries extract and export natural resources with little industrial processing. This study analyzes the direct and indirect impacts that the extractive industries in...
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Knowledge Spillovers, ICT and Productivity Growth
Corrado, Carol A. - 2014
This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with EUKLEMS productivity estimates for 10 EU member states from 1998 to 2007. We find that (a) the...
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National treatment in the GATT
Horn, Henrik - In: The American economic review 96 (2006) 1, pp. 394-404
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The world technology frontier
Caselli, Francesco; Coleman, Wilbur John - In: The American economic review 96 (2006) 3, pp. 499-522
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