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Technology Strategies for Low-Carbon Economic Growth : A General Equilibrium Assessment
Sue Wing, Ian - 2017
GDP (1 percent in Armenia and 0.2 percent in Georgia). The results demonstrate how MAC curves can paint a misleading …
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Assessment of Net Mitigation in the Context of International Greenhouse Gas Emissions Control Mechanisms
Strand, Jon - 2017
This paper discusses the scope for market mechanisms, already established for greenhouse gas mitigation in Annex 1 countries that ratified the Kyoto Protocol, for implementing "net mitigation," defined here as mitigation beyond Annex 1 countries' formal mitigation requirements under the Kyoto...
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Calculating the Carbon Footprint from Different Classes of Air Travel
Bofinger, Heinrich - 2017
This paper develops a new methodology for calculating the "carbon footprint" of air travel whereby emissions from travel in premium (business and first) classes depend heavily on the average class-specific occupied floor space. Unlike methods currently used for the purpose, the approach properly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974284
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An Analysis of Various Policy Instruments to Reduce Congestion, Fuel Consumption and Co2 Emissions in Beijing
Anas, Alex - 2017
Using a nested multinomial logit model of car ownership and personal travel in Beijing circa 2005, this paper compares the effectiveness of different policy instruments to reduce traffic congestion and CO2 emissions. The study shows that a congestion toll is more efficient than a fuel tax in...
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Lock-In Effects of Road Expansion on Co2 Emissions : Results from a Core-Periphery Model of Beijing
Anas, Alex - 2017
In the urban planning literature, it is frequently explicitly asserted or strongly implied that ongoing urban sprawl and decentralization can lead to development patterns that are unsustainable in the long run. One manifestation of such an outcome is that if extensive road investments occur,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976801
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Are Driving Forces of Co2 Emissions Different Across Countries? : Insights from Identity and Econometric Analyses
Dong, Kangyin - 2018
This paper investigates factors behind the growth of carbon dioxide emissions over the 35 years between 1980 and 2015 in more than 100 countries, using an index decomposition technique (the Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index). The results are further confirmed using an econometric technique (the...
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Variance and Skewness in Density Predictions : A World GDP Growth Forecast Assessment
Mendez Ramos, Fabian - 2019
surveys on expectations and implied statistics of predictive models. The BCEF procedure is applied to produce world GDP growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012901276
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Nonrenewable Resources, Income Inequality and Per Capita GDP : An Empirical Analysis
Scognamillo, Antonio - 2017
. It uses a two-equation system in which the Gini index and GDP per capita are the dependent variables and the stock of … capita GDP and the Gini index; in other words, resource dependence is associated with lower income levels, but also with a … statistically significant correlation with GDP per capita. Among the lower-income group, greater dependence on nonrenewable natural …
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Economic Development as Opportunity Equalization
Roemer, John E. - 2017
distribution of economic resources. The ubiquitous measure of GDP per capita reflects a utilitarian conception of justice, where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974166
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Economic Structure, Development Policy and Environmental Quality : An Empirical Analysis of Environmental Kuznets Curves with Chinese Municipal Data
He, Jie - 2017
In many cases, the relationship between environmental pollution and economic development can be generally depicted by an inverted U-shaped curve, or an environmental Kuznets curve, where pollution increases with income at the beginning and decreases after a certain level of income. However, what...
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