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This paper discusses the merits and limits of the recent European energy policy aimed at reducing carbon emissions, devoting particular attention to the European Trading System of carbon permits and to the measures that the European Union has adopted to promote renewable energy sources. From the...
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production. Production exhibits increasing returns to scale on aggregate. Urban environmental pollution, as a force that …
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This paper explores the trade-off between economic growth and environmental quality along two paradigms of endogenous growth theory: variety expansion (HIP) and quality improvements (VIP). We compare the policies that match the decentralised economies' paths with the optimal "strong sustainable"...
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use induces a pollution which is accentuated by the soil fragility. We show, at the steady state, that the environmental … tax induces a more conservative farmer behavior for soil, but in some cases it can exacerbate pollution. These effects can …
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Industrial pollution can have damaging effects on resource-based productive sectors. International trade creates …
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We incorporate health-damaging pollution into a three period overlapping generations model in which life expectancy …
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is that the EKC is examined in the presence of pollution as a by product of consumption activities; also, pollution is a … environment, consumers do not consider directly pollution in the maximization problem and are assumed to choose between two … that substitution of dirty consumption with clean consumption alone is not sufficient to reduce environmental pollution …
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