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An empirical contribution to the debate on corruption, democracy and environmental policy

Pellegrini, Lorenzo (contributor); … - 2005

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Democracy does not cause growth : the importance of endogeneity arguments

Ruiz Pozuelo, Julia; Slipowitz, Amy; Vuletin, Guillermo - 2016

This article challenges recent findings that democracy has sizable effects on economic growth. As extensive political … paper focuses on this endogeneity concern. Using a worldwide survey of 165 country-specific democracy experts conducted for … these more exogenous democratizations strongly indicates that democracy does not cause growth. Consequently, the common …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521223

What does it take to sell environmental policy? : an empirical analysis of referendum data

Halbheer, Daniel (contributor); Niggli, Sarah (contributor); … - 2003 - June 2003, revised April 2005

-votes do not seem to depend on whether a proposal involves a tax or not. -- direct democracy ; environmental policy ; public …

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Entropy of proportional matrix apportionments

Helgason, Thorkell; Jörnsten, Kurt O. - 1994

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Aid, exports, and growth : a time-series perspective on the Dutch disease hypothesis

Kang, Joong Shik; Prati, Alessandro; Rebucci, Alessandro - 2010

The available evidence on the effects of aid on growth is notoriously mixed. We use a novel empirical methodology, a heterogeneous panel vector-autoregression model identified through factor analysis, to study the dynamic response of exports, imports, and per capita GDP growth to a global aid...

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Debt and economic growth : does size matter? : evidence from dynamic parametric and static non-parametric approaches

Reyes-Tagle, Gerardo; Muñoz, Jorge - 2023

This paper provides new evidence on the effect of debt on economic growth through two alternative methodological approaches. On the one hand, by using a panel error correction model with a sample of 130 countries between 1980 and 2020, we found evidence of the existence of a range of debt-to-GDP...

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Carbon taxes, path dependency and directed technical change : evidence from the auto industry

Aghion, Philippe; Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Hémous, David - 2012

Can directed technical change be used to combat climate change? We construct new firm-level panel data on auto industry innovation distinguishing between "dirty" (internal combustion engine) and "clean" (e.g. electric and hybrid) patents across 80 countries over several decades. We show that...

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Are small farms really more productive than large farms?

Aragon, Fernando M.; Restuccia, Diego; Rud, Juan Pablo - 2021

This paper shows that using yields may not be informative of the relationship between farm size and productivity in the context of small-scale farming. This occurs because, in addition to productivity, yields pick up size-dependent market distortions and decreasing returns to scale. As a result,...

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Eugster, Patrick (contributor); Zweifel, Peter (contributor) - 2006

underwriting risks both domestically and internationally. -- Insurance ; Portfolio Theory ; International Diversification …

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Efficient electricity portfolios for the United States and Switzerland : an investor view

Krey, Boris B.; Zweifel, Peter - 2008

This study applies financial portfolio theory to determine efficient electricity-generating technology portfolios for the United States and Switzerland, adopting an investor point of view. Expected returns are defined by the rate of decrease of power generation cost (with external costs...

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