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Education Quality, Green Technology, and the Economic Impact of Carbon Pricing

Macdonald, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2022

Carbon pricing is increasingly used by governments to reduce emissions. The effect of carbon pricing on economic outcomes as well as mitigating factors has been studied extensively since the early 1990s. One mitigating factor that has received less attention is education quality. If...

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Defensive Investments and the Demand for Air Quality : Evidence from the Nox Budget Program and Ozone Reductions

Deschênes, Olivier - 2014

Demand for air quality depends on health impacts and defensive investments that improve health, but little research assesses the empirical importance of defenses. We study an important cap-and-trade market, which dramatically reduced NOx emissions, a key ingredient in ozone formation. A rich...

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The Effect of Renewable Energy Development on Carbon Emission Reduction : An Empirical Analysis for the EU-15 Countries

Abolhosseini, Shahrouz - 2015

The increased concerns about climate change have made renewable energy sources an important topic of research. Several scholars have applied different methodologies to examine the relationships between energy consumption and economic growth of individual and groups of countries and to analyze...

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Distributional Effects of Emission Pricing in a Carbon-Intensive Economy : The Case of Poland

Antosiewicz, Marek - 2020

In this paper, we assess the distributional impact of introducing a carbon tax in Poland. We apply a two-step simulation procedure. First, we evaluate the economy-wide effects with a dynamic general equilibrium model. Second, we use a microsimulation model based on household budget survey data...

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Why Does Emissions Trading Under the EU Ets Not Affect Firms' Competitiveness? Empirical Findings from the Literature

Joltreau, Eugénie - 2018

Environmental policies may have important consequences for firms' competitiveness or profit-ability. However, the empirical literature shows that hardly any statistically significant effects on firms can be detected for the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). We explain why there...

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Willingness to Pay for Carbon Mitigation : Field Evidence from the Market for Carbon Offsets

Rodemeier, Matthias - 2023

What do markets for voluntary climate protection imply about people's valuations of en- vironmental protection? I study this question in a large-scale field experiment (N=255,000) with a delivery service, where customers are offered carbon offsets that compensate for emissions. To estimate...

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Who Pays for Higher Carbon Prices? Illustration for Lithuania and a Research Agenda

Immervoll, Herwig; Linden, Jules; O'Donoghue, Cathal; … - 2023

This paper lays out an approach, and a research agenda, for assessing the impact of carbon pricing on household budgets, and of possible compensatory government transfers that can be financed through carbon-tax revenues. It relies on a rich set of available data and policy models and combines...

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Asabiyya : Re-Interpreting Value Change in Globalized Societies

Heshmati, Almas; Tausch, Arno - 2009

. The World Values Survey provided a data framework of global value change, whose quantitative results led members of the … parcel of a larger set of traditional values. With the free available country-wide data from the World Values Survey, we re …/Welzel, 2003, 2003. A frequently asked question is whether “modernization” without “spiritual values” in a globalized world economy …

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The Political U : New Evidence on Democracy and Income

Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Frigerio, Marco - 2022

This paper throws new light on the relationship between income and democracy. Using data for 162 countries over 1960-2018, we show that the causal relationship between political and economic development is U-shaped: "intermediate" political regimes significantly lead to inferior economic...

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Demographic Transitions Across Time and Space

Delventhal, Matt; Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Guner, … - 2022

The demographic transition the move from a high fertility/high mortality regime into a low fertility/low mortality regime is one of the most fundamental transformations that countries undertake. To study demographic transitions across time and space, we compile a data set of birth and death...

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