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Pollution-reducing infrastructure and urban environmental policy
Quaas, Martin F. - 2005
Based on a case study on Bombay, we argue that urban infrastructure, like the sewage system and the municipal waste collection, is an important instrument for urban environmental policy. We develop a spatial general equilibrium model of a monocentric city, where infrastructure serves as a public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010469546
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Knowledge accumulation from public renewable energy R&D in the European Union : converging or diverging trends?
Grafström, Jonas; Söderholm, Patrik; Gawel, Erik; … - 2017
Bottom-up processes of policy convergence are increasingly discussed as a substitute for the absence of supranational …-up convergence? In order to answer this question, we first construct country-specific R&D-based knowledge stocks, and then … Member States over the time period 1990-2012 is employed to test for the presence of conditional â-convergence using a bias …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011723890
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Causes of persistent productivity differences in the West German states in the period from 1950 to 1990
Waidlein, Nicole - 2011
Since the Second World War the West German states show persistent differences in their standard of living. The explanation of the incomplete catching-up process within West Germany is of crucial interest. After identifying productivity as the major growth driving force, this paper investigates...
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