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Economic analysis, sustainability and environmental commons
Musu, Ignazio - 2013
When confronted with market weaknesses and failures determining sustainability problems for environmental common-pool resources, economic analysis has proposed government intervention as the only alternative available. Elinor Ostrom showed that this dichotomy between market and government is not...
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Economic challenges in the Anthropocene
Musu, Ignazio - 2013
The evolution during the Anthropocene is analyzed through the interaction between economic and technological development, characterized by the role of fossil fuels and by the progressive dominance of those with a higher energy and density power. The challenge is how to make the rising demand for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223439
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Modeling fiscal sustainability in dynamic macro-panels with heterogeneous effects : evidence from German federal states
Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Wolfinger, Julia - 2018
In this paper, we extend Henning Bohn's (2008) fiscal sustainability test by allowing for slope heterogeneity and cross-sectional dependence (CD). In particular, our econometric approach is the first that allows fiscal reaction functions (FRF) to capture unobserved heterogeneous effects from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011822075
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Sustainability of German fiscal policy and public debt : historical and time series evidence for the period 1850-2010
Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2013
default. Due to a multitude of large scale events in its past, Germany is far from being an exception: In fact, Germany … Germany's public finances against the standard theoretical background using a unique database, retrieved from multiple sources … historical perception of Germany as the poster child of European public finance. Given these corresponding breaks in time series …
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Panel cointegration tests on the fiscal sustainability of German Laender
Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2014
newly compiled database covering the years 1950 - 2011. Unlike previous studies on Germany, we analyze fiscal sustainability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010388585
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Fiscal sustainability of the German Laender : time series evidence
Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2014
Germany using an unprecedentedly comprehensive fiscal dataset for the time period from 1950 to 2011 for West German Laender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010388609
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Achieving sustainable energy security : 2030 outlook for ASEAN, People Republic of China and India
Fan, Ying; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2015
of Asia and the world economy - during the last five decades has caused significant strains on their scarce resources …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300352
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Do we still need carbonIntensive capital when transitioning to a green economy?
Jin, Wei; Ploeg, Frederick van der; Zhang, Lin - 2020
This paper presents a two-sector green endogenous growth model to explore a mechanism that explains why carbon-intensive capital is not necessarily shut down during transition to a green economy. Without accumulating clean capital to offset carbon emissions, a tightening of climate regulation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012383739
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Global demographic change and climate policies
Gerlagh, Reyer; Jaimes, Richard; Motavasseli, Ali - 2017
Between 1950 and 2017, world average life expectancy increased from below-50 to above-70, while the fertility rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011717212
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Works councils and environmental investment : theory and evidence from German panel data
Askildsen, Jan Erik; Jirjahn, Uwe; Smith, Stephan C. - 2002
Firms may underinvest in local environmental protection even from the private viewpoint of its owners and employees, but works councils may help mitigate this problem. We show that increases in environmental investments when councils are present could be employee-led, firm-led, or jointly-led....
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