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Is Inequality Harmful for the Environment in a Growing Economy?
Kempf, Hubert; Rossignol, Stéphane - 2005
In this paper we investigate the relationship between inequality and the environment in a growing economy from a … the environment. Public expenditures may either be devoted to supporting growth or abating pollution. The decision over … and show that inequality is harmful for the environment: the poorer the median voter relative to the average individual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312338
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Lessons from the Southern enlargement of the EU for the environmental dimensions of Eastern enlargement in particular for Poland
Kuik, Onno J.; Oosterhuis, Frans H. - 2001
This paper analyses the environmental dimensions the past accession of Greece, Portugal and Spain to the EU in order to draw lessons for the current accession of countries of Central and Eastern Europe. A distinction is made between scale, composition and technique effects. Two major conclusions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608821
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Transitional dynamics and uniqueness of the balanced-growth path in a simple model of endogenous growth with environmental asset
Cazzavillan, Guido; Musu, Ignazio - 2001
We present an optimal endogenous growth model with an environmental asset which delivers a direct social utility value. The efficiency of the production services provided by the environmental asset directly depend on past capital accumulation. Such an assumption corresponds to assuming that past...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608827
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European forests and carbon sequestration services: an economic assessment of climate change impacts
Ding, Helen; Nunes, Paulo A. L. D.; Teelucksingh, Sonja S. - 2010
This paper reports an original economic valuation of the impact of climate change on the provision of forest regulating services in Europe. To the authors' knowledge the current paper represents the first systematic attempt to estimate human well-being losses with respect to changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276872
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Hope for the environment: Free enterprise and other economic regimes
Baumol, William Jack - 1998
Economists that was held in Venice on June 25-27, 1998. It analyses the situation of the environment under different economic … long run for the environment. This hope lies in the abundance and growth, such as the world has never known, produced by …, they begin to think about the environment. This has allowed concern about the environment to become a powerful political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608432
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The Determinants of Individuals’ Attitudes Towards Preventing Environmental Damage
Torgler, Benno; Garcia-Valiñas, Maria A. - 2005
This paper investigates empirically the determinants of individuals' attitudes towards preventing environmental damage in Spain using data from the World Values Survey and European Values Survey for the periods 1990, 1995 and 1999/2000. Compared to many previous studies, we present a richer set...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312271
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Environmental policy in an integrated world economy
Schulze, Günther G.; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 1998
This paper critically assesses the literature on the relationship between economic integration and the environment. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608396
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Negotiation as a means of developing and implementing environmental policy
Caldart, Charles C.; Ashford, Nicholas Askounes - 1998
In the environmental area, negotiated rulemaking, implementation, and compliance are proposed by their advocates as delivering two primary benefits: reduced rulemaking time and decreased litigation over a final agency rule. The experience to date, however, indicates that negotiated rulemaking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608405
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Strategic environmental policies in the presence of foreign direct investment
Kayalica, M. Ozgur; Lahiri, Sajal - 2001
We analyse strategic environmental standards in the presence of foreign direct investment (FDI). A foreign firm located in a host country competes with a domestic firm in another country to export a homogeneous good to a third country. We also extend the model to allow the number of FDI to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608817
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Energy Biased Technical Change: A CGE Analysis
Otto, Vincent M.; Löschel, Andreas; Dellink, Rob - 2005
This paper studies energy bias in technical change. For this purpose, we develop a computable general equilibrium model that builds on endogenous growth models. The model explicitly captures links between energy, the rate and direction of technical change, and the economy. We derive the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010312277