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Energy Use and Economic Growth in Africa: A Panel Granger-Causality Investigation
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Youssef, Adel Ben; M'Henni, Hatem - CESifo - 2014
African countries over the period 1988-2010. Our results show that growth and energy use are strongly linked in Africa …We make use of a bootstrap panel analysis of causality between energy use and economic growth for a sample of sixteen …. However, African countries are heterogeneous and there is no “one way” recommendation about energy-growth relationship that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877974
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Energy Consumption, Economic Growth and CO2 Emissions in Middle East and North African Countries
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Youssef, Adel Ben; M'Henni, Hatem - CESifo - 2012
hypothesis. Thus, our findings suggest that not all MENA countries need to sacrifice economic growth to decrease their emission … growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645652
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Energy Consumption and Economic Growth Revisited in African Countries
Eggoh, Jude C.; Bangaké, Chrysost; Rault, Christophe - CESifo - 2011
growth for 21 African countries over the period from 1970 to 2006, using recently developed panel cointegration and causality … decreasing energy consumption decreases growth and vice versa, and that increasing energy consumption increases growth, and vice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320785
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Pollution, Shadow Economy and Corruption: Theory and Evidence
Biswas, Amit K.; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Thum, Marcel - CESifo - 2011
We study how the shadow economy affects pollution and how this effect depends on corruption levels in public administration. Production in the shadow economy allows firms to avoid environmental regulation policies; a large informal sector may be accompanied by higher pollution levels. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009368501
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The Environmental Kuznets Curve and Sustainability: A Panel Data Analysis
Farhani, Sahbi; Mrizak, Sana; Chaibi, Anissa; Rault, … - CESifo - 2014
In recent years, sustainability has represented one of the most important policy goals explored in the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. But related hypotheses, performance measures and results continue to present a challenge. The present paper contributes to this ongoing literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010765493
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An Environmental-Economic Measure of Sustainable Development
Cairns, Robert D.; Martinet, Vincent - CESifo - 2013
A central issue in the study of sustainable development is the interplay of growth and sacrifice in a dynamic economy … provides the limit to growth. Maximin value is interpreted as a dynamic environmental-economic carrying capacity and current …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877894
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Fueling Growth when Oil Peaks: Directed Technological Change and the Limits to Efficiency
André, Francisco J.; Smulders, Sjak - CESifo - 2012
scarcity could cast its shadow on world economic growth soon if energy markets are forward looking. We develop an endogenous … growth model that reconciles the current aggregate trends in energy use and productivity growth with the intertemporal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010586070
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Population under a Cap on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Bohn, Henning; Stuart, Charles - CESifo - 2010
A cap on greenhouse gas emissions makes total emissions a fixed common-property resource. Population increases under a cap are therefore self-limiting: a population increase raises labor and reduces emissions per unit of labor, which lowers incomes and fertility. Because a marginal birth under a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572574
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When Labor Disputes Bring Cities to a Standstill: The Impact of Public Transit Strikes on Traffic, Accidents, Air Pollution, and Health
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2015
Many governments have banned strikes in public transportation. Whether this can be justified depends on whether strikes endanger public safety or health. We use time-series and cross-sectional variation in powerful registry data to quantify the effects of public transit strikes on urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265260
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Carbon Content of Electricity Futures in Phase II of the EU ETS
Fell, Harrison; Hintermann, Beat; Vollebergh, Herman R. J. - CESifo - 2013
We estimate the relationship between electricity, fuel and carbon prices in Germany, France, the Netherlands, the Nord Pool market and Spain, using one-year futures for base and peak load prices for the years 2009-2012, corresponding to physical settlement during the second market phase of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877729