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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 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

-income relationship. We show that the environmental Kuznets curve can be derived directly from the technological link between consumption …

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Growth-Rate and Uncertainty Shocks in Consumption : Cross-Country Evidence

Nakamura, Emi - 2012

We provide new estimates of the importance of growth rate and uncertainty shocks for developed countries. The shocks we estimate are large and correspond to well-known macroeconomic episodes such as the Great Moderation and the productivity slowdown. We compare our results to earlier estimates...

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The Evolution of Income, Consumption, and Leisure Inequality in The US, 1980-2010

Attanasio, Orazio - 2012

of an issue. Second, we explore inequality measures within the CE using the value of vehicles owned, a consumption … Study of Income Dynamics to explore the dynamics of alternative measures of consumption inequality. All of our different … methods yield similar results. We find that consumption inequality within the U.S. between 1980 and 2010 has increased by …

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Crises and Recoveries in an Empirical Model of Consumption Disasters

Nakamura, Emi - 2010

We estimate an empirical model of consumption disasters using a new panel data set on personal consumer expenditure for … consumption of about 30%, but that roughly half of this decline is reversed in a subsequent recovery. Uncertainty about … consumption growth increases dramatically during disasters. Our estimated model generates a sizable equity premium from disaster …

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Modeling the Impact of Warming in Climate Change Economics

Pindyck, Robert S. - 2010

and consumption. Most integrated assessment models (IAMs) relate temperature to the level of real GDP and consumption, but … uncertainty over future temperature change and its impact? I address these questions by estimating the fraction of consumption …

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Activist Fiscal Policy to Stabilize Economic Activity

Auerbach, Alan J. - 2009

evidence is not as "shovel ready" as one would like. Although consumption and investment clearly respond to tax incentives and …

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