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Commodity Trade and the Carry Trade : A Tale of Two Countries
Ready, Robert C. - 2013
Persistent differences in interest rates across countries account for much of the profitability of currency carry trade strategies. "Commodity currencies'' tend to have high interest rates while low interest rate currencies belong to exporters of finished goods. This pattern arises in a...
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Investigating the shape of the EKC : a nonparametric approach
Baiocchi, Giovanni; DiFalco, Salvatore - 2001
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Desperately seeking (environmental) Kuznets
Galeotti, Marzio; Lanza, Alessandro - 1999
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Environmental quality and economic development : empirical evidence based on qualitative characteristics
Xepapadeas, Anastasios; Amri, Esma - 1995
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Estimates of the Social Cost of Carbon : Background and Results from the Rice-2011 Model
Nordhaus, William D. - 2011
A new and important concept in global warming economics and policy is the social cost of carbon or SCC. This concept represents the economic cost caused by an additional ton of carbon-dioxide emissions or its equivalent. The present study describes the development of the concept as well as its...
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Sources of Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries
Broner, Fernando - 2012
the country level with data on pollution intensity at the industry level to show that countries with laxer environmental …. We propose an instrument for environmental regulation based on meteorological determinants of pollution dispersion identi …...ed by the atmospheric pollution literature. We find that the effect of environmental regulation on the pattern of trade is …
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The Environmental Kuznets Curve : Exploring a Fresh Specification
Bradford, David F.; Fender, Rebecca; Shore, Stephen H. - 2021
between income level and pollution). The new specification enables us to draw conclusions from fixed effects estimation. In …
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The Perils of the Learning Model for Modeling Endogenous Technological Change
Nordhaus, William D. - 2010
Learning or experience curves are widely used to estimate cost functions in manufacturing modeling. They have recently been introduced in policy models of energy and global warming economics to make the process of technological change endogenous. It is not widely appreciated that this is a...
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Supply-Side Policies in the Depression : Evidence from France
Cohen-Setton, Jeremie - 2016
The effects of supply-side policies in depressed economies are controversial. We shed light on this debate using evidence from France in the 1930s. In 1936, France departed from the gold standard and implemented mandatory wage increases and hours restrictions. Deflation ended but output...
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A meta-analysis of the willingness to pay for reductions in pesticide risk exposure
Travisi, Chiara M.; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2004
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