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Degree of environmental stringency and the impact on trade patterns

Cagatay, Selim; Mihci, Hakan - In: Journal of Economic Studies 33 (2006) January, pp. 30-51

Purpose – To construct an index (index of environmental sensitivity performance) to be used in a cross-country trade model in order to analyze the effect of various degrees of environmental stringency on the trade patterns, and especially on the export performance of the countries....

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Untying the knots of international environmental agreements

Ross, Anthony Clunies - In: Journal of Economic Studies 27 (2000) January, pp. 94-110

Curbing (without banning) potentially environmentally-damaging activities that have global, rather than local, effects raises challenges analogous to those faced by a community lacking legislative powers that has to restrict access to a common pasture in order to make its use sustainable. A...

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Economic dimensions of technological and global responses to the Kyoto protocol

Grubb, Michael - In: Journal of Economic Studies 27 (2000) January, pp. 111-125

This paper examines economic aspects of the Kyoto protocol on climate change, focusing on the protocol’s longer-term impact and possible global evolution. Specifically, the analysis considers the economics of likely technological responses to the protocol and the implication of international...

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Population growth in polluting industrialization

Constant, Karine; Nourry, Carine; Seegmuller, Thomas - In: Resource and Energy Economics 36 (2014) 1, pp. 229-247

pollution. We develop a simple overlapping generations model with paternalistic altruism according to wealth and environmental … concerns. One can therefore explain a simultaneous increase in capital intensity, population growth and pollution, namely a … capital intensity, population growth and pollution. …

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Learning about compliance under asymmetric information

Arguedas, Carmen; Rousseau, Sandra - In: Resource and Energy Economics 34 (2012) 1, pp. 55-73

Over time, inspection agencies gather information about firms’ pollution levels and this information may allow agencies …

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Economic growth, industrialization, and the environment

Cherniwchan, Jevan - In: Resource and Energy Economics 34 (2012) 4, pp. 442-467

In this paper, I argue the compositional shift from agricultural to industrial production – industrialization – is a central determinant of changes in environmental quality as economies develop. I develop a simple two-sector model of neoclassical growth and the environment in a small open...

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