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Economic challenges in the Anthropocene
Musu, Ignazio - 2013
development, characterized by the role of fossil fuels and by the progressive dominance of those with a higher energy and density … countries, compatible with the sustainability of the processes concerning the Earth system. Mainly by focusing on the energy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223439
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The New Globalization Era and Digitalization Debate : An Economist's Perspective
Nwaobi, Godwin Chukwudum - 2003
world. In fact, industrialization to date has been based on energy and it has been and continues to be based on fossil fuels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014095480
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Energy consumption, emissions and economic growth in an oil producing country
Ismail, Mohd Adib; Mawar, Murni Yunus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This study is aimed to examine the causal relationship between economic growth, energy consumption and emissions in … between output, capital, energy use, labor and emissions. It also finds that there is causality running from output to capital …, energy use and emissions, but not vice versa. Therefore, this study suggests emissions cut cannot be simply taken without …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259502
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The connection between oil and economic growth revisited
Torres, Nuno; Afonso, Óscar; Soares, Isabel - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2010
This study shows that the cross-section “curse” result found with oil abundance indicators for producing countries disappears in a panel estimation considering the most important growth factors. This happens even excluding institutional quality, which is hindered by oil and ores abundance in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008458568
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Geographic oil concentration and economic growth – a panel data analysis
Torres, Nuno; Afonso, Óscar; Soares, Isabel - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Porto - 2009
Given a panel of oil producing countries, we show that a higher oil concentration is associated with an increase in economic growth through capital efficiency in: (i) countries with medium and low income per head from East Asia & Pacific and Latin America & the Caribbean, classified as followers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008495872
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Knowledge and growth in the very long run
Strulik, Holger - 2010 - This version: October 2010
This paper proposes a theory for the gradual evolution of knowledge diffusion and growth over the very long run. A feedback mechanism between capital accumulation and the ease of knowledge diffusion explains a long epoch of (quasi-) stasis and an epoch of high growth linked by a gradual economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008906821
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The quest for status and R&D-based growth
Hof, Franz X.; Prettner, Klaus - 2016
We analyze the impact of status preferences on technological progress and long-run economic growth. For this purpose, we extend the standard relative wealth approach by allowing the two components of the representative household's wealth, physical capital and shares, to differ with respect to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422440
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Knowledge and growth in the very long run
Strulik, Holger - 2012 - This Version: November 2012
This paper proposes a theory for the gradual evolution of knowledge diffusion and growth over the very long run. A feedback mechanism between capital accumulation and the ease of knowledge diffusion explains a long epoch of (quasi-) stasis and an epoch of high growth linked by a gradual economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009665630
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Inside the virtuous cycle between productivity, profitability, investment and corporate growth : an anatomy of China industrialization
Yu, Xiaodan; Dosi, Giovanni; Grazzi, Marco; Lei, Jiasu - 2015
, profitability, investment and growth, based on China's manufacturing firm-level dataset over the period 1998 - 2007. First, we find …, the profitability-growth relationship is mediated via investment. Firm's contemporaneous and lagged profitabilities … display positive and significant effect on the probability to report an investment spike, and, in turn, investment activity is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500809
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Knowledge and growth in the very long-run
Strulik, Holger - 2009
This paper proposes a theory for the evolution of knowledge diffusion and growth over the very long run. A feedback mechanism between capital accumulation and knowledge spillovers creates a unified growth theory that explains a long epoch of (quasi-) stasis and an epoch of high growth linked by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003817154