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The Timing of National Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions in the Presence of Other Environmental Policies

Dellink, Rob B.; Hofkes, Marjan W. - 2006

This paper shows in an empirical context that substantial cost reductions can be achieved in the implementation of Dutch national climate policy by (i) targeting the policy at the stock of greenhouse gases, thus allowing polluters flexibility in their timing of emission reductions; and (ii)...

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Ranking of Countries - The WEF, IMD, Fraser and Heritage Indices

Ochel, Wolfgang; Röhn, Oliver - In: CESifo DICE Report 04 (2006) 2, pp. 48-60

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Freedom, growth, and the environment

Barrett, Scott A.; Graddy, Kathryn - 1998

A number of recent papers have found that certain measures of pollution worsen and later improve as income per head … political system. In this paper we find that, for a number of pollution variables, an increase in civil and political freedoms … significantly improves environmental quality. For other pollution variables, however, we find that freedoms have no effect. The …

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Understanding West German economic growth in the 1950s

Eichengreen, Barry; Ritschl, Albrecht - 2008

We evaluate explanations for why Germany grew so quickly in the 1950s. The recent literature has emphasized convergence …

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Inventor mobility, knowledge diffusion, and growth

Koike-Mori, Yasutaka; Maruyama, Toshitaka; Okumura, Koki - 2024

This paper develops an endogenous growth model that incorporates a frictional inventor market and examines the allocation of inventors across firms, knowledge diffusion, and its impact on growth. In our model, inventors play dual roles: they engage in in-house R&D and transfer knowledge from...

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Factoring the environmental Kuznets curve Evidence from Norway

Bruvoll, Annegrete; Medin, Hege - 2000

The environmental Kuznets curve theory suggests that economic growth may reduce environmental problems. In this article, we analyze the changes in environmentally damaging emissions to air in Norway from 1980 to 1996. In order to reveal the factors which decrease the emissions per produced unit,...

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Institutions in the Economic Fitness Landscape: What Impact Do Welfare State Institutions Have on Economic Performance?

Schettkat, Ronald - In: CESifo DICE Report 01 (2003) 2, pp. 27-33

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What drives biodiversity?: an empirical assessment of the relation between biodiversity and the economy

Freytag, Andreas; Vietze, Christoph; Völkl, Wolfgang - 2009

The environmental discussion is increasingly extended to the question of how to preserve biodiversity. As sensible regulation of biodiversity utilization uses politically set incentive schemes, it is required to discus the monetary value of biodiversity. Consequently, the relation between...

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Influence of economic factors on the environment in countries with different levels of development

Filimonova, I. V.; Provornaya, I. V.; Komarova, A. V.; … - In: Energy Reports 6 (2020) 1, pp. 27-31

The pattern of development of the economies of Europe and the world in recent decades is a focus on sustainable development. In accordance with the declaration of the United Nations Conference of 1992, sustainable development is defined as "equitable meeting the needs of present and future...

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How Fast are the Tourism Countries Growing? The cross-country evidence

Brau, Rinaldo; Lanza, Alessandro; Pigliaru, Francesco - 2003

Specializing in tourism is an option available to a number of less developed countries and regions. But is it a good option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 "tourism countries" within a sample of 143 countries, observed during the period 1980-95....

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