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We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a dynamic model of endogenous urban growth with two sectors of … equilibrium, compared to the efficient urbanization path, if economic growth implies increasing aggregate emissions. If, on the … other hand, production becomes cleaner over time (`quality growth') the urbanization path approximates the efficient outcome …
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This article exploit a data base of 1.522 observations related to Lombardy’s municipalities to run a cross sectional estimation of the drivers of MW selection. We find no evidence of a significant correlation between the percentage of selected MW selection and market variables such as the unit...
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Combining unique data bases on emissions with sectoral output and employment data, we study the sources of the fall in world-wide SO2 emissions and estimate the impact of trade on emissions. Contrarily to concerns raised by environmentalists, an emission-decomposition exercise shows that scale...
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income growth among regions. Empirical data seem to support the absolute convergence hypothesis for U.S. states, but the data … also show that natural resource-abundance is a significant negative determinant of growth. We find that natural resource … effects can fully explain the negative effect of natural resource abundance on growth. …
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We examine empirically the effect of natural resource abundance on economic growth. We find that natural resources have … a negative impact on growth when considered in isolation, but a positive impact on growth when including in the analysis … indirect effect on growth, that is, when we examine possible transmission channels, we find a strong negative effect of natural …
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This paper provides new empirical evidence on regional–national disparities in environmental efficiency, based on case studies of Italy and the Lazio region, which includes the city of Rome. Shift-share analyses provide evidence on the drivers of environmental efficiency and on sector...
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Defining what Sustainability and Sustainable Development mean is a critical task, as they are global objectives, which cover different aspects of life often difficult to quantify and describe. Talking about sustainable development means dealing with the development and implementation of SD...
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This paper presents an application of a multi-attribute aggregation methodology to the construction of a sustainability index. Sustainability is a multi-faceted issue, in which synergies or conflicts may arise among the different components, thus making it a complex concept to which multi...
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In this paper we empirically investigate the relationship between investments in environmentally-oriented equipment and firms’ export performance. Drawing on Porter hypothesis and firm heterogeneity theory, we adopt a structural model where first we estimate the impact of green investment...
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At the Davos forum of January 2014, a group of 14 countries pledged to launch negotiations on liberalising trade in ‘green goods’ (also known as `environmental goods’(EGs)), focussing on the elimination of tariffs for an ‘APEC list’ of 54 products. The paper shows that the ‘Davos...
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