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Dynamic behavior of oil importers and exporters under uncertainty

Bretschger, Lucas; Vinogradova, Alexandra - In: Dynamic optimization in environmental economics, (pp. 195-213). 2014

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Sustainability and Substitution of Exhaustible Natural Resources. How resource prices affect long-term R&D investments

Bretschger, Lucas; Smulders, Sjak - 2003

limited, which seems to be crucial for today's sustainability debate. …

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The sustainability paradigm: A macroeconomic perspective

Bretschger, Lucas - 1997

The paper presents a macroeconomic approach to sustainable growth. After clarifying the concept of sustainability, the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608281

The importance of tipping points for sustainable development

Bretschger, Lucas; Leuthard, Matthias - 2024

Solving major sustainability problems such as climate change and the loss of biodiversity requires overcoming a … inertia and path dependencies. As a result, expectations and reality are often still far apart in sustainability policy … thresholds can thus become a successful strategy for sustainability policy. In this paper, we highlight the importance and …

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The sustainability paradigm: A macroeconomic perspective

Bretschger, Lucas - 1997

This paper presents a macroeconomic approach to sustainable growth. After clarifying the concept of sustainability, the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397944

Sustainability and substitution of exhaustible natural resources. How resource prices affect long-term R&D-investments

Bretschger, Lucas; Smulders, Sjak - 2006

Traditional resource economics has been criticised for assuming too high elasticities of substitution, not observing material balance principles and relying too much on planner solutions to obtain long-term growth. By analysing a multi-sector R&Dbased endogenous growth model with exhaustible...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753091

Economics of technological change and the natural environment: How effective are innovations as a remedy for resource scarcity?

Bretschger, Lucas - 2004

The paper aims to substantiate the importance of endogenous innovations when evaluating the compatibility of natural resource use and economic development. It explains that technological change has the potential to compensate for natural resource scarcity, diminishing returns to capital, poor...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753092

Natural resource scarcity and long-run development: central mechanisms when conditions are seemingly unfavourable

Bretschger, Lucas - 2005

Using a dynamic model with non-renewable natural resources and endogenous knowledge creation, the paper analyses economic development under conditions which are generally considered as most unfavourable. We assume poor substitution between primary input factors, positive population growth and a...

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Population growth and natural resource scarcity: 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/10011753151

International Trade and Net Investment: Theory and Evidence

Bretschger, Lucas; Valente, Simone - 2011

augmented net investment for the world's top twenty oil producers, we show that the difference with standard non …-augmented measures can be large and may even revert some established con- clusions regarding sustainability: prospects are more favorable … than previously thought in oil-exporting countries endowed with large reserves like Angola, Azerbaijan, Kuwait, Saudi …

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