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As bad as it gets : how climate damage functions affect growth and the social cost of carbon

Bretschger, Lucas; Pattakou, Aimilia - 2017

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Dirty history versus clean expectations : can energy policies provide momentum for growth?

Bretschger, Lucas; Schäfer, Andreas - 2016

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Factor income distribution and endogenous economic growth : when Piketty meets Romer

Irmen, Andreas; Tabaković, Amer - 2016

We scrutinize Thomas Piketty's (2014) theory concerning the relationship between an economy's long-run growth rate, its … of Piketty's Second Fundamental Law of Capitalism does not hold. In line with Piketty's theory a smaller long-run growth …, both the economy's savings rate and its growth rate are endogenous variables whereas in Piketty's theory they are both …

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Population growth and natural resource scar-city : long-run development under seemingly unfavourable conditions

Bretschger, Lucas - 2009

The paper develops a model with non-exponential population growth, nonrenewable natural resources, and endogenous knowledge creation to analyse substitution between primary inputs and an essential use of resources in the innovation sectors, which is generally considered as most unfavourable for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011793475

Factor income distribution and endogenous economic growth : when Piketty meets Romer

Irmen, Andreas; Tabakovic, Amer - 2016

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853082

Stranded assets : how policy uncertainty affects capital, growth, and the environment

Bretschger, Lucas; Soretz, Susanne - 2018

Standard environmental economics prescribes policies which are optimal and implemented immediately. The paper argues that, in reality, environmental policy often deviates from the optimum and implementation is not deterministic but subject to major uncertainty and frequent change. We present a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011818392

Optimal carbon policies in a dynamic heterogenous world

Borissov, Kirill; Bretschger, Lucas - 2018

We derive the optimal contributions to global climate policy when countries differ with respect to income level and pollution intensity. Countries' growth rates are determined endogenously, and abatement efficiency is improved by technical progress. We show that country heterogeneity has a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011920831

Explaining Environmental Kuznets Curves : how pollution induces policy and new technologies

Smulders, Sjak; Bretschger, Lucas - 2000

Production often causes pollution as a by-product. Once pollution problems become too severe, regulation is introduced by political authorities which forces the economy to make a transition to cleaner production processes. We model this transition as a change in "general purpose technology"...

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Dynamik der realwirtschaftlichen Integration am Beispiel der EU-Osterweiterung

Bretschger, Lucas - 1998

In diesem Beitrag werden die Auswirkungen einer wirtschaftlichen Integration auf das langfristige Wachstum analysiert. Dabei wird von international unterschiedlichen Faktorausstattungen, einer unvollständigen Wissensdiffusion und der Existenz von Umweltproblemen ausgegangen. Als Resultat einer...

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Trade union objectives and economic growth

Irmen, Andreas; Wigger, Berthold U. - 2000

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001455668