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Analyzing rebound effects
Schettkat, Ronald - 2009
Are efficiency improvements in the use of natural resources the key for sustainable development, are they the solution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003836154
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Analyzing rebound effects
Schettkat, Ronald - 2009
Are efficiency improvements in the use of natural resources the key for sustainable development, are they the solution …Sind Verbesserungen in der Effizienz im Umgang mit den natürlichen Ressourcen der Schlüssel für eine Nachhaltige …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003882199
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A Bayesian approach to dynamic efficiency and productivity measurement
Skevas, Ioannis - 2016
The vast majority of the efficiency and productivity measurement literature has been based on the static viewpoint of … the firm. Few studies have developed the dynamic analog of static efficiency measurement, introducing the notions of long …-run efficiency and inefficiency persistence. However, these few existing dynamic efficiency studies have not provided any empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012504611
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Productive inefficiency in dairy farming and cooperation between spouses : evidence from Senegal
Hoel, Jessica B.; Hidrobo, Melissa; Bernard, Tanguy; … - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110275
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A comparison of stochastic frontier approaches to estimating inefficiency and total factor productivity : an application to Irish dairy farming
Carroll, James; Newman, Carol; Thorne, Fiona - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003996420
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O mercado de trabalho rural : evolução recente, composição da renda e dimensão regional
Diniz, Bernardo P. Campolina; Silveira, Fernando Gaiger da - 2009
This paper focuses on the changes in income and activity sectors on the economically active rural population (EAP) between 1996 and 2006. Besides a brief introduction, its divide into more tree parts. The first part analyzes the changes in income and activity sectors based on the National...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003857097
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Sustainable economic development and the environment : theory and evidence
Bertinelli, Luisito (contributor); Strobl, Eric (contributor) - 2005
The relationship between growth and pollution is studied through a vintage capital model, where new technology is more environmentally friendly. We find that once the optimal scrapping age of technologies is reached, an economy may achieve two possible cases of sustainable development, one in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003731649
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The impact of market innovations on the evolution of norms : the sustainability case
Müller, Stephan; Wangenheim, Georg von - 2014
That institutions matter is widely accepted among economists and so are social norms as an important category of informal institutions. Social norms matter in many economic situations, but in particular for markets. The economic literature has studied the interrelation between markets and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350951
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Mirage on the horizon : geoengineering and carbon taxation without commitment
Acemoglu, Daron; Rafey, Will - 2018
We show that, in a model without commitment to future policies, geoengineering breakthroughs can have adverse environmental and welfare effects because they change the (equilibrium) carbon taxes. In our model, energy producers emit carbon, which creates a negative environmental externality, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820231
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Irreversibility, ignorance, and the intergenerational equity-efficiency trade-off
Hoberg, Nikolai; Baumgärtner, Stefan - 2011
We demonstrate the existence of an intergenerational equity-efficiency trade- off in policy-making that aims at Pareto-efficiency … taken, policy-making faces a fundamental trade-off between intergenerational Pareto-efficiency and sustainability. …We demonstrate the existence of an intergenerational equity-efficiency tradeoff in policy-making that aims at Pareto-efficiency …
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