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Discounting, Distribution and Disaggregation
Yamaguchi, Rintaro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
To consider the implication of disaggregated consumption and discounting, we study discounting in a world composed of the rich and the poor, a standard setting in the literature of cost-benefit analysis with distributional considerations. We derive several discount rates for different...
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The Effects of Climate on Output per Worker: Evidence from the Manufacturing Industry in Colombia
Salazar, Mateo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper quantifies the effect of an increase in temperature and precipitation on the average output per worker in the Colombian manufacturing industry. In order to approach this issue rigorously, a methodology is developed with a theoretical model and an empirical estimation. The estimation...
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Endogenous Growth with a Ceiling on the Stock of Pollution
Kollenbach, Gilbert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The effects of an agreement such as the Kyoto Protocol, which implicitly imposes a ceiling on the stock of pollution …, have recently been studied in Hotelling models. We add pollution and a ceiling to the endogenous growth model of \cite …
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Factors Affecting the Distribution of CERs: A Cross-Sectional Empirical Analysis
Kasai, Katsuya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The CDM has promoted GHG reduction activities in developing countries. There is, however, a controversial issue of an unequal distribution of CDM benefits among developing nations. To date, some emerging economies have been receiving the majority of CERs while most LDCs have few of them. This...
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Income and Emission: A Panel Data based Cointegration Analysis
Dinda, Soumyananda; Coondoo, Dipankor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
This paper presents the results of an investigation of the causality issue of income-emission relationship based on time series econometric techniques of unit root test, co-integration and related error correction model for a panel data set. Here, the nature of causality between per capita CO2...
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Climate Change and Economic Growth: An Intertemporal General Equilibrium Analysis for Egypt
Elshennawy, Abeer; Robinson, Sherman; Willenbockel, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Due to the high concentration of economic activity along the low-lying coastal zone of the Nile delta and its dependence on Nile river streamflow, Egypt's economy is highly exposed to adverse climate change. Adaptation planning requires a forward-looking assessment of climate change impacts on...
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Environment and Growth
Horii, Ryo; Ikefuji, Masako - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
economic growth deteriorates the environment through increasing amounts of pollution, the deteriorated environment in turn …
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A Cross-Country Empirical Analysis of Determinants of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Projects
Kasai, Katsuya - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The CDM seems to play a significant role in international GHG reduction activities. Yet, a few emerging countries have hosted majority of CDM projects whereas most LDCs have not hosted CDM projects at all. Given the current distributional imbalance, this study aims to identify determinants of...
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The environmental Kuznets curve in a public spending model of economic growth
Diallo, Ibrahima Amadou - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
states an inverse U-relationship between pollution and income. The presented model specifically shows how a dynamic … environmental Kuznets curve can emerge by introducing pollution and abatement technology in a public spending model of endogenous … that taxes reduce the level of pollution by pulling down the environmental Kuznets curve. Lastly the numerical exercises …
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Decomposition of productivity considering multi-environmental pollutants in Chinese industrial sector
Fujii, Hidemichi; Cao, Jing; Managi, Shunsuke - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The objective of this study is to calculate and decompose productivity incorporating multi-environmental pollutants in Chinese industrial sectors from 1992 to 2008. We apply a weighted Russell directional distance model to calculate productivity from both the economic and environmental...
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