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Education Quality, Green Technology, and the Economic Impact of Carbon Pricing
Macdonald, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry A. - 2021
Carbon pricing is increasingly used by governments to reduce emissions. The effect of carbon pricing on economic outcomes as well as mitigating factors has been studied extensively since the early 1990s. One mitigating factor that has received less attention is education quality. If...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882368
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Survey of models on demand, customer base-line and demand response and their relationships in the power market
Heshmati, Almas - 2012
The increasing use of demand-side management as a tool to reliably meet electricity demand at peak time has stimulated … the growing literature on models used to study demand, consumer baseline (CBL) and demand response in the electricity … case for possible application to the electricity market and discusses the implications of the results. In the literature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284018
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Energy Consumption and Health Outcomes in Africa
BenYoussef, Adel; Lannes, Laurence; Rault, Christophe; … - 2016
between energy consumption and health indicators in Nigeria. In particular, our findings suggest that electricity consumption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584640
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Energy consumption, economic growth and CO2 emissions in Middle East and North African countries
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Youssef, Adel Ben; M'henni, Hatem - 2012
implementing recent bootstrap panel unit root tests and cointegration techniques to investigate the relationship between carbon …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282194
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The long-run effects of mortality decline in developing countries
Lehmijoki, Ulla; Palokangas, Tapio - 2011
Since World War II, mortality has declined in the developing world. This paper examines the effects of this mortality decline on demographic and economic growth by a family-optimization model, in which fertility is endogenous and wealth yields utility through its status. The decline in mortality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276154
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Exploring the Causality Links between Energy and Employment in African Countries
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Ben Youssef, Adel; M'henni, Hatem - 2014
estimates did not indicate any causality in Big African players like South Africa, Nigeria, Morocco, Ghana and Senegal. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398255
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Exploring the Causality Links between Energy and Employment in African Countries
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Ben Youssef, Adel; M'henni, Hatem - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
estimates did not indicate any causality in Big African players like South Africa, Nigeria, Morocco, Ghana and Senegal. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010795363
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Energy Consumption, Economic Growth and CO2 Emissions in Middle East and North African Countries
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Ben Youssef, Adel; M'henni, Hatem - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
implementing recent bootstrap panel unit root tests and cointegration techniques to investigate the relationship between carbon …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279316
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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262477
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Unemployment, Growth and Fiscal Policy : New Insights on the Hysteresis Hypothesis
Sorolla, Valeri; Sala, Héctor; Raurich, Xavier - 2004
We develop a growth model with unemployment due to imperfections in the labor market. In this model, wage inertia and balanced budget rules cause a complementarity between capital and employment capable of explaining the existence of multiple equilibrium paths. Hysteresis is viewed as the result...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276428