technology and damages, coupled with a relative risk aversion which exceeds unity, the abatement propensity increases to 2 …

technology and damages, coupled with a relative risk aversion which exceeds unity, the abatement propensity increases to 2 …

from natural hazards. Increasing investments in disaster risk reduction have led to a significant reduction in human … and poor countries. The analysis suggests indeed that economic growth leads to better defenses but also more risk taking …

growth model to explore the conditions under which an economy is sustainable, considering different types of risk. In general … equilibrium, sustainability boils down to supply-side factors, with increased growth, decreased consumption risk, and greater …, catastrophic risk management, investments in clean and dirty technologies, and the importance of risk-sharing assets …

We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge … knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the …

We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge … country depends on its connections to the rest of the world and on the human capital of the countries it is exchanging … knowledge with. We show how the diffusion of knowledge through the world explains the evolution of global income inequality. It …