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Potrafke, Niklas; Wuthrich, Kaspar - 2021

We examine how Green governments influence macroeconomic, education, and environmental outcomes. We exploit that the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan gave rise to an unanticipated change in government in the German state Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2011. Using the synthetic control method, we find...

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Towards green growth in Denmark : improving energy and climate change policies

Jamet, Stéphanie - 2012

Denmark’s green growth strategy focuses on moving the energy system away from fossil fuels and investing in green technologies, while limiting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. On the whole, current policies should allow Denmark to reach near-term climate change targets, but may not be...

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Supporting the UN SDGs transition : methodology for sustainability assessment and current worldwide ranking

Campagnolo, Lorenza; Eboli, Fabio; Farnia, Luca; … - 2017

-dimensional index and a worldwide ranking of current sustainability. This allows informing on strengths and weaknesses of today … ranking includes 139 countries. North European countries are at top of the ranking (Sweden, Norway and Switzerland). …

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Green transformation of small businesses : achieving and going beyond environmental requirements

Mazur, Eugene - 2012

This report aims to help environmental and other competent authorities in OECD countries to promote green business practices among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It analyses different ways to establish environmental regulatory requirements for facilities with low environmental risk...

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Assessing SDGs : a new methodology to measure sustainability

Campagnolo, Lorenza; Carraro, Carlo; Eboli, Fabio; … - 2015

and then derives a composite multi-dimensional index and a worldwide ranking of current sustainability. This allows …-dimensional index. The final ranking summarizes countries’ sustainability performance. As expected, Middle-North European countries are … at top of the ranking (Sweden, Norway and Switzerland the first three), with the most industrialized European countries …

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Supporting the UN SDGs transition: methodology for sustainability assessment and current worldwide ranking

Campagnolo, Lorenza; Eboli, Fabio; Farnia, Luca; … - 2018

and a worldwide ranking of current sustainability. This makes it possible to assess the strengths and weaknesses of today … 26 indicators into composite indices by pillars as well as in a multi-dimensional index. The final ranking includes 139 … countries. Sweden, Norway and Switzerland are at the top of the ranking. …

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Public spending, green growth, and corruption : a local fiscal multiplier analysis for Italian provinces

Ficarra, Matteo - 2024

This paper estimates local fiscal multipliers for green and non-green public works in Italian provinces, and disentangles the geographic and institutional heterogeneities behind them. I construct a fiscal shock by taking the variation of the difference between actual and budgeted spending, and I...

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Assessment of green growth in the Baltic States

Štreimikienė, Dalia - In: Contemporary economics 18 (2024) 1, pp. 87-100

EU Green Deal and US Green New Deal strategies indicate that green growth is at the center of the policy agendas of many developed countries and regions. The green growth is a key element in achieving sustain- able development. Green growth is an economic growth strategy that prioritizes human...

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Elasticity of substitution between clean and dirty energy inputs : a macroeconomic perspective

Papageorgiou, Chris; Saam, Marianne; Schulte, Patrick - 2013

Recently Acemolgu, Aghion, Bursztyn and Hemous (AER 2012) formulated a model in which a high macroeconomic elasticity of substitution between clean and dirty production represents a crucial condition for green growth. Until now it has never been systematically estimated. Using a novel panel of...

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A review of the circular economy and its implementation

Heshmati, Almas - 2015

Circular economy (CE) is a sustainable development strategy that is being proposed to tackle urgent problems of environmental degradation and resource scarcity. CE's 3R principles are to reduce, reuse and recycle materials. The principles account for a circular system where all materials are...

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