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Did Frederick Brodie Discover the World's First Environmental Kuznets Curve? Coal Smoke and the Rise and Fall of the London Fog
Clay, Karen - 2010
In a paper presented to the Royal Meteorological Society, Brodie (1905) presented a data series that presaged the modern Environmental Kuznets Curve: in the decades leading up to 1890, the number of foggy days in London rose steadily, but after 1891, the fogs began to subside. Brodie attributed...
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Economic Growth and the Environment : A Review of Theory and Empirics
Brock, William A. - 2004
This paper reviews both theory and empirical work on economic growth and the environment. We develop four simple growth models to help us identify key features generating sustainable growth. We show how some combination of technological progress in abatement, intensified abatement, shifts in the...
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The Green Solow Model
Brock, William A. - 2004
We demonstrate that a key empirical finding in environmental economics - The Environmental Kuznets Curve - and the core model of modern macroeconomics - the Solow model - are intimately related. Once we amend the Solow model to incorporate technological progress in abatement, the EKC is a...
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The Environment and Globalization
Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 2003
Fears that globalization necessarily hurts the environment are not well-founded. A survey reveals little statistical evidence, on average across countries, that openness to international trade undermines national attempts at environmental regulation through a race to the bottom' effect. If...
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Trade, Growth and the Environment
Copeland, Brian R. - 2003
For the last ten years environmentalists and the trade policy community have engaged in a heated debate over the environmental consequences of liberalized trade. The debate was originally fueled by negotiations over the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Uruguay round of GATT...
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The Environmental Kuznets Curve : Exploring A Fresh Specification
Bradford, David F. - 2000
Using a new specification, we reanalyze the data on worldwide environmental quality investigated by Gene Grossman and Alan Krueger in a well-known paper on the environmental Kuznets curve (which postulates an inverse U shaped relationship between income level and pollution). The new...
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The Simple Analytics of the Environmental Kuznets Curve
Andreoni, James - 1998
Evidence suggests that some pollutants follow an inverse-U-shaped pattern relative to countries' incomes. This relationship has been called the out a simple and straight-forward static model of the microfoundations of the pollution-income relationship. We show that the environmental Kuznets...
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Deals versus rules : policy implementation uncertainty and why firms hate it
Hallward-Driemeier, Mary - 2010
"Firms in Africa report "regulatory and economic policy uncertainty" as a top constraint to their growth. We argue that often firms in Africa do not cope with policy rules, rather they face deals; firm-specific policy actions that can be influenced by firm actions (e.g. bribes) and...
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Winning Isn't Everything : Corruption in Sumo Wrestling
Duggan, Mark - 2000
Although the theoretical literature on corruption is well developed, empirical work in this area has lagged because it … has proven difficult to isolate corrupt behavior in the data. In this paper, we look for evidence of corruption in an … stables play a role in facilitating the corruption. In times of increased media scrutiny, the match rigging disappears …
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Natural Openness and Good Government
Wei, Shang-Jin - 2000
This paper offers a new interpretation of the connection between openness and good governance. Assuming that corruption … display lower corruption in equilibrium. In data, naturally more open economies' do exhibit less corruption even after taking …
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