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Atallah, Gamal - 2016

This paper models the simultaneous investments in cost-reducing and environmental R&D by asymmetric firms competing à la Cournot. Pollution rights are allocated by the regulator, and firms can trade pollution permits. Both R&D competition and R&D cooperation are considered; in the latter case,...

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Chapter 7. Cities and the Environment

Kahn, Matthew E.; Walsh, Randall - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 405-465). 2015

This chapter surveys recent literature examining the relationship between environmental amenities and urban growth. In this survey, we focus on the role of both exogenous attributes such as climate and coastal access and endogenous attributes such as local air pollution and green space. A city's...

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Network Economics and the Environment : Insights and Perspectives

Currarini, Sergio - 2014

Recent research in the field of network economics has shown how explicitly modelling the network structure of social and economic relations can provide significant theoretical insights, as well as account for previously unexplained empirical evidence. Despite their critical importance to many...

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Environmental R&D

Hoel, Michael - 2010

The topic of this note is issues related to R&D expenditures leading to improved technologies for reducing environmentally harmful emissions. The focus is on he following questions: Will a market economy where environmental policies are restricted to taxes or quotas give the socially efficient...

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Evolutionary thinking in environmental economics

Bergh, Jeroen C. J. M. van den - 2007

Evolutionary and environmental economics have a potentially close relationship. This paper reviews past and identifies potential applications of evolutionary concepts and methods to environmental economics. This covers a number of themes: resource use and ecosystem management; growth and...

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Vehicle fleets path and non-linear ownership elasticity for Bolivia, 2000-2035

Aliaga Lordemann, Javier; Orsini, Alejandra Terán - 2020

This paper seeks to analyze the evolution of the Bolivian vehicle stock in the mid-term and its policy implications. First, we analyze the relationship between income and vehicle ownership in the country during the period 1970 - 2017 through robust econometric techniques. Based on these results,...

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Measuring Urban Sustainability Through Common Indicators and Peer City Benchmarking : Assessing Sustainability Assets for Performance Improvement and Economic and Environmental Progress in Delaware

Byrne, John - 2018

The report summarizes first-year research of a three-year study of pathways to urban sustainability. The research team selected the STAR Communities assessment model as the backbone for its analysis. This framework offers a menu-based system for enabling city managers and leaders to build paths...

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Green Technology Adoption and the Business Cycle

Bourgeon, Jean-Marc - 2018

We analyze the adoption of green technology in a dynamic economy affected by random shocks where demand spillovers are …

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Complementarity between Environmental Efficiency and Labour Productivity in a Cumulative Growth Process

Guarini, Giulio - 2015

The aim of this paper is to analyse the potential complementarity between environmental efficiency and labour productivity within growth process in theoretical and empirical terms. Firstly, I analyse the theoretical elements that justify the positive relationship between the two efficiencies....

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Technology, Trade, and Wages

Adams, James D. - 1997

causes of the change in structure. This paper seeks to fill the gap by studying the impact of domestic technology, foreign … technology, and trade on U.S. wages. A standard model of general equilibrium is presented that shows each effect tends to be … technology has the same rather than opposite effect on wages at both skill levels; (ii), a rise in the foreign share in world …

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