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Anthropogenic climate change in an integrated energy balance model of global and urban warming
Sato, Kimitoshi - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 3 (2014), pp. 1-21
This paper presents an integrated energy balance model of global and urban warming in the attributes/functionings framework à la Gorman-Lancaster-Sen and proposes a Global Warming Function and an Urban Warming Function. Also presented is a concept of Heat Island Integral, which measures the...
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The economic and environmental effects of an EU ban on illegal logging imports : insights from a CGE assessment
Bosello, Francesco; Parrado, Ramiro; Rosa, Renato - 2010
Illegal logging is widely recognized as a major economic problem and one of the causes of environmental degradation. Increasing awareness of its negative effects has fostered a wide range of proposals to combat it by major international conservation groups and political organizations. Following...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008729121
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A framework for ex-ante economic impact assessment of tourism investments : an application to Haiti
Banerjee, Onil; Cicowiez, Martin; Gachot, Sebastien - 2015
This study develops a linked regional computable general equilibrium and micro-simulation (RCGE-MS) model to assess the regional economy-wide and poverty impacts of a US$36 million investment in tourism in the south of Haiti. The first social accounting matrix for Haiti with a base year of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431387
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Trade and the spatial distribution of transport infrastructure : conference paper
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Tarasov, Alexander - 2014 - This version: December 2013, Preliminary and incomplete draft
This paper endogenizes the spatial distribution of infrastructure investment and transportation costs. Transportation costs between two addresses depend on cumulative infrastructure investment. In a continuous space setting with several independent countries or regions, consumers demand domestic...
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Adaptation, internalization and environmental damage
Abrego, Lisandro E. (contributor); Whalley, John (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]
significance of these responses to congestion externalities, and argue that they need to be taken into account in designing … internalization instruments. We consider labor-leisure, regional labor mobility and house price responses to congestion externalities … consequences of internalizing externalities. If adaptation is present, externalities will be partially internalized, the gains from …
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A Provincial View of Economic Integration
Bayoumi, Tamim - 2006
This paper develops a method of testing levels of economic integration based upon consumption smoothing, and tests it using data on trade balances across Canadian provinces. The results indicate the provinces are highly integrated within Canada, but integration between Canada and the rest of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012782323
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The COVID Crumbling of Tourism in Andalusia : An Assessment of Economic and Environmental Consequences
Roson, Roberto; Van der Vorst, Camille - 2021
This paper presents a simulation exercise undertaken with a newly available regional general equilibrium model for the Spanish region of Andalusia. The exercise is intended to assess the structural adjustment processes and impacts on the Andalusian economy directly induced by the dramatic fall...
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How to Feed the World in 2050 : Macroeconomic Environment, Commodity Markets -- A Longer Term Outlook
van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique - 2013
The recent commodity boom was the longest and broadest of the post-World War II period. Although most prices have declined sharply since their mid-2008 peak, they are still considerably higher than 2003, the beginning of the boom. Apart from strong and sustained economic growth, the recent boom...
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Land competitiveness and leakage concerns and border carbon adjustments
Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2012
This paper provides a review of the literature on competitiveness and leakage concerns associated with differentiated climate abatement commitments among countries. The literature reviewed is not exhausted, but it is sufficient to provide a balanced view of both academics and policy circles....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009634265
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The Implications of Brexit for UK and EU Regional Competitiveness
Thissen, Mark - 2019
Any form of Brexit will impact heterogeneously in terms of sectors and regions on the competitiveness of firms in both the UK and Europe. The ongoing uncertainty about the conditions under which the UK will be leaving the EU, creates difficulties in structurally estimating these impacts. Using...
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