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Stagnation Vs Singularity : The Global Implications of Alternative Productivity Growth Scenarios
McKibbin, Warwick J. - 2019
Productivity growth has flat-lined in most economies despite rapid advances in technology. Economists suggest competing … and increased productivity means a productivity surge is just around the corner. The paper explores the implications of … alternative productivity growth scenarios for the global economy, particularly for growth, labor markets and the flows of trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012890306
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Assessing Climate Change Impacts : Agriculture
Bosello, Francesco; Zhang, Jian - 2014
temperature increase in the relevant year and with a crop-growth model estimating climate change impact on cereal productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063286
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Development, Growth and Volatility
Moro, Alessio - 2010
theory of development consistent with these three facts. I show that even when total factor productivity (TFP) growth and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141336
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The contribution of economics to the analysis of climate change and uncertainty: a survey of approaches and findings
Peterson, Sonja - 2004
There is a general agreement that (a) climate change is one of the most serious environmental problems, that (b) the analysis of climate change is confronted with a large degree of uncertainty and (c) that these uncertainties need to be taken into account to arrive at meaningful policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265417
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Reducing Deforestation and Trading Emissions: Economic Implications for the post-Kyoto Carbon Market
Sathaye, Jayant A.; Anger, Niels - 2008
This paper quantitatively assesses the economic implications of crediting carbon abatement from reduced deforestation for the emissions market in 2020 by linking a numerical equilibrium model of the global carbon market with a dynamic partial equilibrium model of the forestry sector. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298025
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Interactions of Reduced Deforestation and the Carbon Market: The Role of Market Regulations and Future Commitments
Anger, Niels; Dixon, Alistair; Livengood, Erich - 2009
Reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD) has been proposed as a potentially inexpensive and plentiful source of emission abatement to supplement other longterm climate policies. However, critics doubt that REDD credits are environmentally equivalent to domestic emission...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298719
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Energy outlooks compared : global and regional insights
Ansari, Dawud; Holz, Franziska; Al-Kuhlani, Hashem - 2019
We compare prominent global energy scenarios of organisations and companies. We supplement the analysis with four own scenarios, which were derived from structured analytic techniques in combination with a numerical global energy and resource market model (Multimod). Our study provides three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137101
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A multi-scale model of virus pandemic : heterogeneous interactive entities in a globally connected world
Bellomo, Nicola; Bingham, Richard D.; Chaplain, Mark A. J. - 2020
This paper is devoted to the multidisciplinary modelling of a pandemic initiated by an aggressive virus, specifically the so-called SARS-CoV-2 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, corona virus n.2. The study is developed within a multiscale framework accounting for the interaction of different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229895
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Identifying sustainability and knowledge gaps in socio-economic pathways vis-à-vis the sustainable development goals
Zimm, Caroline; Sperling, Frank; Busch, Sebastian - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 2, pp. 1-22
With the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the global community has set itself an ambitious development agenda. Current analytical and quantitative modeling capabilities fall short of being able to capture all 17 SDGs and their targets. Even highly ambitious and optimistic pathways currently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853672
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Does political risk matter for economic growth in Cyprus?
Kirikkaleli, Dervis; Kalmaz, Demet Beton - In: Review of Economic Analysis : REA 16 (2024) 1, pp. 61-73
This study aims to capture the co-movement between political risk and economic growth in Cyprus employing quarterly data over the time period between 1995Q1 and 2018Q4, adopting a wavelet coherence technique allowing to investigate both the short and long run causal link between economic growth...
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