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The sustainability of Chinese growth and the aggregate factor substitution elasticity

Whalley, John; Xing, Chunbing - 2012

than below one. We use time series data on labor's share in GDP to estimate a substitution elasticity for China, finding … role of factor substitution in future Chinese growth. We argue that high growth in China can be supported in such a … sustainability of high Chinese growth. -- China ; growth ; sustainability ; substitution elasticity …

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Housing environmental risk in urban areas : cross country comparison and policy implications

Chiarini, Bruno; D'Agostino, Antonella; Marzano, Elisabetta - 2017

The main aim of this paper is to assess whether there is a statistically significant environmental impact of cities within European countries. Second, starting from the estimated environmental impact of cities within European countries, the paper investigates whether cross-country variation can...

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City size, pollution and emission policies

Pflüger, Michael - 2020

modelling of pollution and pollution abatement. We derive two key insights. First, if the national government implements a … permit system (equivalently, pollution taxes) that allow for emissions as in the first-best, cities chosen by local …-best emission policy and extensions to city asymmetries, a fiscal externality, local pollution, generalized commuting costs and …

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CO2 emissions and GDP : evidence from China

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Claudio-Quiroga, Gloria; … - 2019

This paper examines the relationship between the logarithms of CO2 emissions and real GDP in China by applying …

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Role of production networks in sustaining and rebalancing Asia's growth

Thorbecke, Willem; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2012

to the People Republic of China (PRC) and ASEAN for assembly by lower-skilled workers. The finished products are then …

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We do not know the population of every country in the world for the past two thousand years

Guinnane, Timothy - 2021

Economists have reported econometric results that rely on estimates of the population of every country in the world for the past two thousand or more years. The underlying source is usually McEvedy and Jones' Atlas of World Population History, published in 1978. The McEvedy and Jones data have...

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Economic growth and pollutant emissions : new panel evidence from the Union for the Mediterranean countries

Ben Abdeljelil, Mouna; Rault, Christophe; Belaîd, Fateh - 2023

This paper investigates the existence of an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) and its robustness for 28 countries of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) over the recent period. Our methodology relies on four recent estimation methods for non-stationary panel data and includes four pollutants...

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Financial devlopment, environmental quality, trade and economic growth : what causes what in MENA countries?

Omri, Anis; Daly, Saida; Rault, Christophe; Chaibi, Anissa - 2015

This paper examines the relationship between financial development, CO2 emissions, trade and economic growth using simultaneous-equation panel data models for a panel of 12 MENA countries over the period 1990 - 2011. Our results indicate that there is evidence of bidirectional causality between...

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The environmental Kuznets curve and sustainability : a panel data analysis

Farhani, Sahbi; Mrizak, Sana; Chaibi, Anissa; Rault, … - 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...

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Pollution and resource extraction : do they matter for the dynamics of growth?

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs - 2000

This paper shows that whether pollution occurs as a by-product of economic activity (which is supposed to be the case …

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