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development almost naturally follows a history-dependent spatial diffusion influenced by both physical geography and the quality …
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systematically larger along the pre-Islamic trade routes in the Old World. The theory argues that this particular type of geography … across regions, fostering predatory behavior from the poorly endowed ones. In such an environment it was mutually beneficial …, capital accumulation remained low and wealth inequality bounded. Geography and trade shaped the set of economically relevant …
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Geography has long been considered as a fundamental prerequisite for economic development and growth. In recent years …, a growing number of papers have considered the role of physical geography as a determinant of regional growth and …
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We use a hazard model to estimate the effect of environmental regulation on the diffusion of membrane cell production technology in the chlorine manufacturing industry. We estimate the effect of regulation on both the adoption of the membrane technology at existing plants and on the exit of...
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Since oil is a non-renewable resource with a high environmental impact, and its most common use is to produce combustibles for electricity, reliable methods for modelling electricity consumption can contribute to a more rational employment of this hydrocarbon fuel. In this paper we apply the...
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&Gas industry and its links with the energy sector and the environment. In the next decade oil companies will have to deal with …
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This paper examines a simple North-South growth model where negative externalities may contribute to reinforce economic growth. Agents' welfare depends on three goods in the model: leisure, a common access renewable natural resource (one in each hemisphere) and a non-storable consumption good....
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Biodiversity provides essential services to human societies. Many of these services are provided as public goods, so that they will typically be underprovided both by market mechanisms (because of the impossibility of excluding non-payers from using the services) and by government-run systems...
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The Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis (EKC) postulates an inverted u-shaped curve between important pollutants and per capita GDP analogous to the relationship between in-come inequality and income per capita which has been analysed by Kuznets in 1955. The arti-cle focuses on an empirical...
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composed of three non-linear ordinary differential equations describing the dynamics of tourists, environment and services …
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