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Transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy: Evidence from a dynamic simulation model with endogenous resource substitution
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Tse, Kin-ping - 1999
This paper applies an economic model of climate change that is based on endogenous substitution of energy resources to determine the effect of advances in renewable technology on aggregate and sectoral fossil fuel use and energy prices. It uses a Nordhaus type partial equilibrium model of the...
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Sharpening the effectiveness of natural experiments as an analytical tool
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2012
The importance of using natural experiments in economic research has long been recognized. Yet, it is only in recent years that natural experiments have become an integral part of the economist's analytical toolbox, thanks to the efforts of Meyer, Card, Peters, Krueger, Gruber, and others. This...
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Remembering Mark Blaug
Caldwell, Bruce - 2012
In the paper I offer some vignettes on my relationship, both professional and personal, with Mark Blaug, and by way of example reflect on his impact on the history of economics.
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Situational Analysis
Hoover, Kevin D. - 2016
Situational analysis (also known as situational logic) was popularized by Karl Popper as an appropriate method for the interpretation of history and as a basis for a scientific social science. It seeks an objective posit ive explanation of behavior through imputing a dominant goal or motive to...
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Why Are So Many Western Intellectuals Abandoning Liberalism and What Can We Do About It?
Craiutu, Aurelian - In: Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch 142 (2022) 1, pp. 1-20
This article analyzes some of the reasons why so many Western intellectuals have seemed ready to abandon the principles of liberalism lately in search for alternative solutions. I begin by examining the fascination exercised by Viktor Orbán among conservatives in the US who emerged as staunch...
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Reflecting on 'Beyond Positivism' at thirty-five
Caldwell, Bruce - 2017
In 1982 my book Beyond Positivism: Economic Methodology in the Twentieth Century was published. At the 2017 History of Economics society meeting, a session was held to mark the 35th anniversary of that event. Papers by Wade Hands, Kevin Hoover, Tony Lawson, and the trio Peter Boettke, Solomon...
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Does corruption matter for the environment? Panel evidence from China
Liao, Xianchun; Dogan, Eyup; Baek, Jungho - 2016
This paper examines the income-energy-SO2 emissions nexus by taking a corruption variable into account. To that end, the panel cointegration methods are applied to 29 Chinese provinces over 1999-2012. The authors' empirical evidence shows that an increase in the number of anticorruption cases...
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Does agricultural value added induce environmental degradation? Empirical evidence from an agrarian country
Agboola, Mary O.; Bekun, Festus V. - 2019
This study empirically investigates the agriculture-induced environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis in an agrarian …-run equilibrium relationship among the variables under consideration. This study also validates the inverted U-shaped pattern of EKC …
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Environmental pollution, economic growth and institutional quality: Exploring the nexus in Nigeria
Egbetokun, Samuel; Osabuohien, Evans; Akinbobola, … - 2019
objective of developing economies. An economy turns around the inverted U-shaped Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) when … EKC considering the impact of institutional quality on six variables of environmental pollution [carbon dioxide (CO2 … case of Nigeria. The EKC model includes population density, education expenditure, foreign direct investment, and gross …
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Socioeconomic factors and water quality in California
Farzin, Y. Hossein; Grogan, Kelly A. - 2011
Curve (EKC) - specifications, a more inclusive model containing main socioeconomic variables such as agricultural intensity … variables while accounting for spatial correlations too. For most water quality indicators, we do not find support for EKC …
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