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Will Trade Liberalization Harm the Environment? The Case of Indonesia 2020
Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
Most-favoured-nation (MFN) trade liberalizations will always improve global economic welfare provided globally optimal environmental, and other, policies are in place. But since the latter proviso is not met in practice, empirical studies of the environmental and resource depletion effects of...
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Optimal Energy Investment and R&D Strategies to Stabilise Greenhouse Gas Atmospheric Concentrations
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Massetti, Emanuele; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
objective. In this paper we use WITCH, a hybrid climate-energy-economy model, to obtain a quantitative assessment of some cost …-effective strategies that stabilise CO2 concentrations at 550 or 450 ppm. In particular, this paper analyses the energy investment and R …&D policies that optimally achieve these two GHG stabilisation targets (i.e. the future optimal energy mix consistent with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791545
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Media Freedom, Bureaucratic Incentives and the Resource Curse
Egorov, Georgy; Guriev, Sergei; Sonin, Konstantin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
How can a non-democratic ruler provide proper incentives for state bureaucracy? In the absence of competitive elections and separation of powers, the ruler has to be well-informed himself, and to gather information he may use either a secret service or the media. The danger of using a secret...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123655
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Reducing Coal Subsidies and Trade Barriers: Their Contribution to Greenhouse Gas Abatement
Anderson, Kym; McKibbin, Warwick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
International negotiations for an agreement to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases are unlikely to produce concrete and comprehensive policies for effective emission reductions in the near term, not least because the policy measures being considered are economically very costly to major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124128
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Do Oil Price Increases Cause Higher Food Prices?
Baumeister, Christiane; Kilian, Lutz - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
U.S. retail food price increases in recent years may seem large in nominal terms, but after adjusting for inflation have been quite modest even after the change in U.S. biofuel policies in 2006. In contrast, increases in the real prices of corn, soybeans, wheat and rice received by U.S. farmers...
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Innovative Activity in Wind and Solar Technology: Empirical Evidence on Knowledge Spillovers Using Patent Data
Braun, Frauke G; Schmidt-Ehmcke, Jens; Zloczysti, Petra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
innovative activity with a special emphasis on the role of knowledge spillovers. We investigate two major renewable energy …
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Weightless Machines and Costless Knowledge: An Empirical Analysis of Trade and Technology Diffusion
Barba Navaretti, Giorgio; Soloaga, Isidro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper examines the impact of imported technologies on productivity for a sample of developing and transition countries in Central and Eastern Europe and in the Southern Mediterranean. These economies are getting more and more integrated to the European Union. The Paper departs from earlier...
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Why Do New Technologies Complement Skills? Directed Technical Change and Wage Inequality
Acemoglu, Daron - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
This paper considers an economy where skilled and unskilled workers use different technologies. The rate of improvement of each technology is determined by a profit-maximizing R&D sector. When there is a high proportion of skilled workers in the labour-force, the market for skill-complementary...
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Workers, Machines and Economic Growth
Zeira, Joseph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
This paper models technology adoption as replacing workers by machines, which perform the same job in the production process. The paper shows that such modelling of technology adoption affects significantly the analysis of economic growth. This model can explain large and persistent...
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Industrial Employment, Investment Equipment and Economic Growth
Dellas, Harris - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
The industrialization of labour is the main engine of growth during the early stages of economic development. In less developed countries, equipment investment has played a less important role than non-equipment investment; and it has only proved growth enhancing when it either encountered a...
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