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Corruption and environmental policy : an alternative perspective
Lapatinas, Athanasios; Litina, Anastasia; Sartzetakis, … - 2011
We construct an overlapping generations model in which agents live through two periods; childhood and adulthood. Each agent makes choices only as an adult, based on her utility that depends on her own consumption and the human capital and environmental quality endowed to her offspring. Entering...
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What should we expect from innovation? : a model-based assessment of the environmental and mitigation cost implications of climate-related R&D
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Duval, Romain; … - 2010
complement carbon pricing (taxes or permit trading) and improve the economic efficiency of a mitigation policy package? To answer … temperature. The efficiency gains of combining innovation and carbon pricing policies are found to reach about 10% for a …
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The role of R&D and technology diffusion in climate change mitigation : new perspectives using the witch model
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Duval, Romain; … - 2009
diffusion. Their impact on stabilisation costs depends on the nature of R&D: R&D targeted at incremental energy efficiency …
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The role of privately held firms in income inequality
Paukkeri, Tuuli; Ravaska, Terhi; Riihelä, Marja - 2023
Business owners of privately held firms have multiple opportunities to decide how much taxable income to take out from their firm and how much to retain within the firm. However, undistributed profits within firms, i.e. retained earnings, are typically invisible in income data, distorting our...
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The effect of tax incentives on private pension saving
O'Brien, Laurence - 2023
In many countries, saving in a private pension is tax-advantaged to encourage saving for retirement; however, there is mixed evidence on the extent to which this increases saving. This paper estimates the responsiveness of private pension saving to tax incentives for employees in England and...
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Learning by doing vs learning by researching in a model of climate change policy analysis
Castelnuovo, Efrem; Galeotti, Marzio; Gambarelli, Gretel; … - 2003
model the process of technological change. In keeping with recent theories of endogenous growth, we specify two ways in …
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Economic development and environmental protection
Galeotti, Marzio - 2003
relationship between income distribution and income growth, the inverted-U relationship between per capita income and pollution has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011592727
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Climate policy and economic growth in developing countries
Buchner, Barbara; Galeotti, Marzio - 2003
problem is thus not emissions but economic growth. Therefore the key question is whether or not the Kyoto Protocol provides an … opportunity for growth and thus for their economic development. The only way to accelerate the participation of developing … which enable their economic development. The dilemma of reducing emissions on a global scale while ensuring growth in the …
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Environment and economic growth : is technical change the key to decoupling?
Galeotti, Marzio - 2003
The relationship between economic growth and pollution is very complex, depending upon a host of different factors … the class of optimal growth models. These are usually studied from the point of view of the analytical conditions that … must hold in order to obtain an inverted-U functional relationship between pollution and growth. These models are however …
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Stable coalitions
Carraro, Carlo; Marchiori, Carmen - 2002
This paper examines recent theoretical developments of the theory of coalition stability. It focuses on the relationship between the incentives to defect from a coalition, the size of the resulting equilibrium coalition structure, and the different assumptions on membership rules, coalition...
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