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Sustainability and the Economics of the Environment: Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Dynamics of the Long-Run Discount Rate
Koundouri, Phoebe; Groom, Ben - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper reviews the arguments for and the implications of employing Declining Discount Rates (DDRs) in CBA and in the analysis of economic growth and sustainability. We show that there exist several growth models in which a relationship has been found between the long-run equilibrium under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112834
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Regulación Ambiental: Los Bosques Nativos, una Visión Económica
Marco Emilio, Salusso - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The forests offer to the society Environmental Goods and Services, which are not recognized on the market. This generates not sustainable use of the forest resources. Because of this situation the State must define an Environmental Politics, to achieve his sustainable use. In order to achieve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059101
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Mergers, pollution and environmental policy
Indrani, Roy Chowdhury - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
We examine the impact of abatement taxes on the pollution level in a duopoly framework with endogenous market structure. We demonstrate that an increase in abatement taxes could trigger a regime-switch from Cournot competition to merger, as well as from merger to Cournot competition. The nature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621373
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The economic and environmental factors of water in arid regions: Study of the rural water use in Northern Darfur Region, Sudan
Mohamed, Issam A.W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
in the area. The impact of economic development on the environment is now a global issue and cannot be ignored. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147859
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Costa Rica, superstar? some reflections on the global drivers and bottlenecks of the happy planet index
Tausch, Arno - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
bottlenecks of our re-formulated Happy Planet Index (HPI) performance on a global scale: a wide variety of standard globalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294683
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Globalization and Environment: Can Pollution Haven Hypothesis alone explain the impact of Globalization on Environment?
Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
how trade affects the environment. Interaction effects also play a crucial role to determine the impact of globalization … on environment. In this study we use CO2 emission and observe that the impact of globalization on environment heavily …The economic literature on trade and environment seeks empirically test hypotheses about how trade affects the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111013
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Globalization and Environment: Can Pollution Haven Hypothesis alone explain the impact of Globalization on Environment?
Dinda, Soumyananda - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
how trade affects the environment. Interaction effects also play a crucial role to determine the impact of globalization … on environment. In this study we use CO2 emission data and observe that the impact of globalization on environment …The economic literature on trade and environment seeks empirically test hypotheses about how trade affects the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113147
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The Dilemma of Minerals Dependent Economy: The case of Foreign Direct Investment and Pollution in Nigeria
Kingston, Kato Gogo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
illustrates that the impact of oil and natural gas exploration on the Nigerian environment is persistent in the long-run. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008835339
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An Account of Pollution Emission Embodied in Global Trade: PGT1 and PGT2 Database
Honma, Satoshi; Yoshida, Yushi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
For the period between 1988 and 2009, we constructed the two sets of the world panel database for the pollution emission embedded in international trade. By applying the time-invariant common pollution intensity at industry level for international trade of over 150 countries, a change in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111295
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Models of Green Economy in Arab Countries Using the Environmental Performance Index
Driouchi, Ahmed; El Alouani, Hajar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Abstract This paper aims at characterizing the main trends affecting the environmental and greening economy systems in Arab countries. This is tackled through the use of data based on Environmental Performance Index (EPI) with statistical analysis of its related indicators. Promising results are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108645