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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...
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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 …
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mechanisms. By looking at Science and Technology it develops a two way classification. Science, is a non market allocation … disclosure. Technology, is a market allocation mechanism, where knowledge is treated as a private good and where patents and …
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parameters of technology. We estimate the equation using trade in manufactures among the OECD. The parameter estimates allow us …
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The 1998 Kyoto protocol signalled a new earnestness of international intent toward addressing the perceived risk of climate change. Kyoto demands that developed nations turn their economies so as to hit differentiated, sub-1990 level carbon emission targets within the next decade or so. But when...
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This paper elaborates on the recent race to sequence the human genome. Starting from the debate on public vs. private research arising from the genome case, the paper shows that in some fundamental research areas, where knowledge externalities play an important role, market and non-market...
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than the effect of representing the details of electricity technology in both the estimated carbon prices and the estimated …
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basically depends on material and relational goods, we show that the best-case scenarios hold when technology and social capital … technology and social interaction balance one another in fostering the growth of both the social and the private sector of the … economy. Along such tracks, technology may play a crucial role in supporting a 'socially sustainable' economic growth. …
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spatial agglomeration and technology, in determining some features of business groups' strategy and organization. Specifically … industrial districts (as a proxy for spatial agglomeration) and to the role of spatial agglomeration and technology in vertical …
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resources towards exploration. In particular, I argue there is a valid concern that privately optimal levels of industrial … activity will fail to fully capture all potential social gains; these sub-optimal exploration levels are linked to a departure … between the private and social values of exploration information. …
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