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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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Investigating the shape of the EKC: A nonparametric approach

Baiocchi, Giovanni; DiFalco, Salvatore - 2001

In this paper we investigate the existence and shape of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) by means of nonparametric methods. We also investigate the issues involved in the choice of nonparametric estimator. We find that the nature of the economic relationship and the quality of environmental...

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Desperately seeking (environmental) Kuznets: A new look at the evidence

Galeotti, Marzio; Lanza, Alessandro; Pauli, Francesco - 2001

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

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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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Economic Growth, Innovation, Cultural Diversity. What Are We All Talking About? A Critical Survey of the State-of-the-art

Maignan, Carole Juliette (contributor); … - 2003

This report constitutes the first deliverable of the project ENGIME - Economic Growth and Innovation in Multicultural …

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