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Fiscal storms: Public spending and revenues in the aftermath of natural disasters

Noy, Ilan; Nualsri, Aekkanush - 2008

Theory, 2004), that also controls for the business cycle. We find fiscal behavior in the aftermath of disasters in developed …

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Fiscal Sustainability in Emerging Market Countries with an Application to Ecuador

Alvarado, Carlos Díaz; Izquierdo, Alejandro; Panizza, Ugo - 2004

This paper surveys the recent literature on fiscal sustainability, with particular emphasis on emerging market countries. It discusses the main elements that differentiate emerging market countries from industrial countries and then discusses how probabilistic models can help to evaluate fiscal...

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Should we sustain? And if so, sustain what? Consumption or the quality of life?

Llavador, Humberto; Roemer, John E.; Silvestre, Joaquim - 2012

Sustainability has been largely replaced by discounted utilitarianism in contemporary climate-change economics. Our approach rejuvenates sustainability by expanding the conception of the quality of life, along the lines of the UN Human Development Reports, to include not only consumption, but...

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Umwelttechnikindustrie - Zukunftsmarkt China

Lichtenecker, Ruperta - 2006

China, das Reich der Mitte, ist mit schwerwiegenden Umweltproblemen konfrontiert die hohe Kosten verursachen. Mit der zunehmenden Anwendung der Umwelttechnik kann der Herausforderung diese Problemfelder zu beheben sinnvoll begegnet werden. Die Indikatoren Wirtschaftswachstum, notwendiger Schutz...

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Trade in Environmental Goods: Empirical Exploration of Direct and Indirect Effects on Pollution by Country’s Trade Status

Zugravu-Soilita, Natalia - 2017

Based on panel data covering 114 countries in the world, this study investigates the direct, indirect and total effects of trade flows in environmental goods (EG) on total CO2 and SO2 emissions. Our system-GMM estimations reveal positive direct scale – [between-industry] composition effects...

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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 dynamics approach. This approach enables to estimate the transition process and long-run distribution and to examine the mechanisms behind the evolution process. The approach is...

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Towards An Inclusive Energy Transition Beyond Coal - A comparison of just transition policies away from coal between China, the EU and the US.

Zhu, Erpu; Campbell, Loyle; Hafner, Manfred; Lu, Xinqing; … - 2021

This paper compares different just transition pathways in China, the European Union and the United States of America by comparing the current state of the coal sector and just transition policies away from coal. How can social justice in the energy transition be achieved under different models...

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Concepts of justice in the degrowth debate

Hennen, Sonja - 2022

theory (EJ) could compensate for this deficit and thus contribute to a more comprehensive and inclusive understanding of … transition. The second section of the analysis highlights those concepts within critical EJ theory that, based on the gaps … areas of recognition, decoloniality, and theory of the state. …

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Allocation and Ex Ante Cost Efficiency of a Swedish Subsidy for Environmental Sustainability: The Local Investment Program

Vredin Johansson, Maria - 2004

We evaluate the allocation rationality and ex ante cost efficiency of a major Swedish investment subsidy program, the "Local Investment Program" (LIP). The LIP, effective between 1998-2002, had dual purposes: to step up the pace at which Sweden transforms into an ecologically sustainable society...

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De facto fiscal space and fiscal stimulus: Definition and assessment

Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin - 2010

We define the notion of 'de facto fiscal space' of a country as the inverse of the outstanding public debt relative to the de facto tax base, where the latter measures the realized tax collection, averaged across several years to smooth for business cycle fluctuations. We apply this concept to...

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