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Desperately Seeking (Environmental) Kuznets

Galeotti, Marzio; Lanza, Alessandro - 1999

The number of studies seeking to empirically characterize the reduced-form relationship between a country's economic growth and the quantity of various pollutants produced has recently increased significantly. In several cases researchers have found evidence in favor of an inverted-U...

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The Environmental Kuznets Curve: A Survey of the Literature

Borghesi, Simone - 1999

In the last few years, several studies have found an inverted-U relationship between per capita income and environmental degradation. This relationship, known as the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC), suggests that environmental degradation increases in the early stages of growth, but it...

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Production Functions for Climate Policy Modeling: An Empirical Analysis

van der Werf, Edwin - 2007

Quantitative models for climate policy modeling differ in the production structure used and in the sizes of the elasticities of substitution. The empirical foundation for both is generally lacking. This paper estimates the parameters of two-level CES production functions with capital, labour and...

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On the Robustness of Robustness Checks of the Environmental Kuznets Curve

Galeotti, Marzio; Manera, Matteo; Lanza, Alessandro - 2006

Since its first inception in the debate on the relationship between environment and growth in 1992, the Environmental Kuznets Curve has been subject to continuous and intense scrutiny. The literature can be roughly divided in two historical phases. Initially, after the seminal contributions,...

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Natural Resources, Innovation, and Growth

Papyrakis, Elissaios; Gerlagh, Reyer - 2004

This paper investigates the connection between resource abundance and innovation, as a transmission mechanism that can …, consumers trade off leisure versus consumption, and firms trade off innovation efforts versus manufacturing. For this model, we … indirectly by inducing a smaller proportion of the labor force to engage in innovation. …

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Optimal Clean Energy R&D Investments Under Uncertainty

Marangoni, Giacomo; De Maere, Gauthier; Bosetti, Valentina - 2017

produced by climate-economy models while introducing the dimension of uncertainty in innovation ef- forts, without succumbing … evaluating optimal near-term innovation investment portfolios in four key clean energy technologies (solar, biofuels … innovation to improve the performance of these technologies. We employ an IAM (WITCH) which has a fairly rich description of the …

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Spatial development

Desmet, Klaus; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - 2010

We present a theory of spatial development. A continuum of locations in a geographic area choose each period how much to innovate (if at all) in manufacturing and services. Locations can trade subject to transport costs and technology diffuses spatially across locations. The result is an...

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Improving the energy-efficiency of buildings: the impact of environmental policy on technological innovation

Noailly, Joëlle - 2010

energy R&D expenditures. Technological innovation is measured using patent counts for specific technologies related to energy …

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Linking reduced deforestation and a global carbon market: Impacts on costs, financial flows, and technological innovation

Bosetti, Valentina; Lubowski, Ruben; Golub, Alexander; … - 2009

Discussions over tropical deforestation are currently at the forefront of climate change policy negotiations at national, regional, and international levels. This paper analyzes the effects of linking Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) to a global market for...

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Knowing the right person in the right place: Political connections and economic growth

Bellettini, Giorgio; Ceroni, Carlotta Berti; Prarolo, … - 2009

low-quality producers to defend their monopoly position and prevent innovation and entry of high-quality competitors … politician secures re-election by setting high bureaucratic costs and firms invest in network blocking innovation and entry …

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