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Disaggregating the resource curse: Is the curse more difficult to dispel in oil states than in mineral states?
Azarchs, Timothy; Khitarishvili, Tamar - 2010
The hypothesis of the natural resource curse has captivated the economics profession, and since the mid-1990s has generated a large body of policymaking initiatives aimed at dispelling the curse. In this paper, we evaluate how the effect of resource abundance on economic growth has changed since...
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Does China Fall into Poverty-Environment Traps? Evidence from Long-term Income Dynamics and Urban Air Pollution
Wu, Jian-Xin; He, Ling-Yun; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2019
This paper examines the long-run relationship between income and urban air pollution using a joint distribution … are the major characteristics in the long-run relationship between income and urban air pollution in China, which implies … explain this new stylized fact. The findings provide strong support for taking more aggressive measures that consider income …
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Information Diffusion and Spillover Dynamics in Renewable Energy Markets
Cedic, Samir; Mahmoud, Alwan; Manera, Matteo; Uddin, … - 2021
The aim of this paper is to analyze the connectedness between renewable energy (RE) sectors, the oil & gas sector and other assets using time-scale spillover approach. We find that the RE bioenergy firms are the most connected to oil & gas firms and oil prices. The bond market transmits...
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Uncertainty and Stock Returns in Energy Markets: A Quantile Regression Approach
Cedic, Samir; Mahmoud, Alwan; Manera, Matteo; Uddin, … - 2021
The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between different types of uncertainty and stock returns of the renewable energy and the oil & gas sectors. We use the quantile regression approach developed by Koenker and d’Orey (1987; 1994) to assess which uncertainties are the potential...
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Linking Heterogeneous Climate Policies (Consistent with the Paris Agreement)
Mehling, Michael A.; Metcalf, Gilbert E.; Stavins, Robert N. - 2017
The Paris Agreement has achieved one of two key necessary conditions for ultimate success – a broad base of participation among the countries of the world. But another key necessary condition has yet to be achieved – adequate collective ambition of the individual nationally determined...
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Better to grow or better to improve? Measuring environmental efficiency in OECD countries with a Stochastic Environmental Kuznets Frontier
Badunenko, Oleg; Galeotti, Marzio; Hunt, Lester C. - 2021
The standard approach to the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) holds that as a country develops and GDP per capita grows environmental degradation initially increases but eventually it reaches a turning point where environmental degradation begins to decline. Environmental degradation takes many...
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The Role of Education and Income Inequality on Environmental Quality. A Panel Data Analysis of the EKC Hypothesis on OECD
Maranzano, Paolo; Bento, Joao Paulo Cerdeira; Manera, Matteo - 2021
We study the impact of human capital and the level of education on the pollution-income relationship controlling for … income inequality in 17 OECD countries. By applying an innovative approach to country grouping, based on the temporal … evolution of income inequality and clustering techniques to feature the annual value of the Gini Index on disposable income from …
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Can the diligent governance increase subjective wellbeing? New evidence from environmental regulations in China
Guo, Shu; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2021
the people would place more weight on environmental governance as their income rises, and can help the government …
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Is high-speed rail green? Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in China
Nie, Liang; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2021
Existing studies have investigated the environmental dividends of substituting high-speed rail for other energy-intensive vehicles from an engineering standpoint, but they have yet to explore the economic effects of high-speed rail and the associated carbon emission reduction benefits. To fill...
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The new developmental state and the challenges of the socio-ecological transformation: Lessons from Argentina and Brazil
Alfano, Lucia - 2022
The climate crisis is inevitably looming over the horizon. Some countries are much more vulnerable than others to its harshest consequences due to their existing issues of poverty and underdevelopment. At the same time, developmental policies pursue economic growth at the cost of environmental...
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