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Olteanu, Victor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Strategic plans in the energy sector have the overall objective of the use of renewable energy, especially wind power, hydroelectricity, biomass intending a considerable increase in the share it has in total energy production. Thus, chase is moving towards an economy based on low carbon...

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Determinants of Interstate Differentials in the Real Median Price of Single Family Homes

Cebula, Richard; Toma, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This empirical study investigates determinants of interstate real median home price differentials for the year 2005. While the literature on geographic cost-of-living differentials is well developed, the literature on geographic housing price differentials is much less so. Given the relatively...

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Determining optimal air quality standards: Quantities or prices?

Halkos, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000

In this study, a basic comparison between the Pigouvian and the Coasean approaches is carried out in order to discuss and comment on the mechanisms by which externalities are resolved. Environmental control approaches are examined and compared in terms of minimization of abatement costs,...

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Income Heterogeneity and Environmental Kuznets Curve in Africa

Ogundipe, Adeyemi; Alege, Philip; Ogundipe, Oluwatomisin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis asserts that pollution levels rises as a country develops, but reaches … a certain threshold where pollution begins to fall with increasing income. In EKC analysis, the relationship between … pollution level. The study seeks to examine the pattern and nature of EKC in Africa and major income groups according to World …

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The rights and wrongs of intergenerational externalities

Spash, Clive L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992

Neither environmental economics nor environmental philosophy have adequately examined the moral implications of imposing environmental degradation and ecosystem instability upon our descendants. A neglected aspect of these problems is the supposed extent of the burden that the current generation...

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Uso De Combustíveis E Emissões De Co2 No Brasil: Um Modelo Interregional De Insumo-Produto

Hilgemberg, E. M.; Guilhoto, J. J. M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This study quantifies CO2 emissions caused by consumption of natural gas, alcohol and petroleum derivatives for six Brazilian regions, and evaluates the impact of possible policies for emission control. The connection between the level of activity and CO2 emissions for each energy input is...

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Future harm and current obligations: the case of global warming

Spash, Clive L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993

There is a time during which aggregate benefits from greenhouse gas emissions dominate costs, but less comfort should be drawn from this situation than current emphasis on double CO2 scenarios suggests. The intertemporal asymmetry of impacts means initial benefits to most regions, from slight...

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Uncertainty in optimal pollution levels: Modeling the benefit area

Halkos, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper identifies the optimal pollution level under the assumptions of linear, quadratic and exponential damage and …

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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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Private Property Rights and Pollution in Emerging Market Economies

Yang, Zhenzeng - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

I use cross-country panel data to show that strengthening of private property rights protection lowers pollution …

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