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Revisiting the Relationships Between Non-Renewable Energy Consumption, CO2 Emissions and Economic Growth in Iran

Nasre Esfahani, Mohammad - 2016

Exploring the short-run and long-run relationships between consumption of various sources of non-renewable energy, economic growth and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions would be considered as a golden key to provide rational energy policies of Iran in the post sanctions era. The aim of this paper...

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Okun's and Barro's Misery Index as an Alternative Poverty Assessment Tool. Recent Estimations for European Countries

Lechman, Ewa - 2014

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The national bioenergy investment model: Technical documentation

Kemp-Benedict, Eric - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The National Bioenergy Investment Model is a scenario model that simulates the decisions of domestic and international investors on whether to invest in biofuel enterprises in a developing country. In the model, investors compare the profitability of different biofuel feedstock and fuel...

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The Feasibility of Further Ethanol Expansion

Gagnon, Jeffrey - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Over the course of the last few years ethanol production has expanded at an incredible pace, putting strain on corn markets and transportation systems throughout the Midwest. Driven by the government subsidy and profit possibilities, firm entry rates have spiked. Previous to 2006-2007 the...

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Macro-economic policy reactions to soaring food prices in Mediterranean countries, Russia, the CIS and the GCC

Peeters, Marga; Strahilov, Kiril - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

The aim of this study is to analyse the price developments and to compare national macroeconomic policies in response to the consumer prices that started to soar in 2007 across the European Neighbourhood Policy countries, the other arcelona countries2, Russia, the Gulf Cooperation Council...

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Determining optimal air quality standards: Quantities or prices?

Halkos, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2000

In this study, a basic comparison between the Pigouvian and the Coasean approaches is carried out in order to discuss and comment on the mechanisms by which externalities are resolved. Environmental control approaches are examined and compared in terms of minimization of abatement costs,...

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Income Heterogeneity and Environmental Kuznets Curve in Africa

Ogundipe, Adeyemi; Alege, Philip; Ogundipe, Oluwatomisin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis asserts that pollution levels rises as a country develops, but reaches … a certain threshold where pollution begins to fall with increasing income. In EKC analysis, the relationship between … pollution level. The study seeks to examine the pattern and nature of EKC in Africa and major income groups according to World …

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The rights and wrongs of intergenerational externalities

Spash, Clive L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992

Neither environmental economics nor environmental philosophy have adequately examined the moral implications of imposing environmental degradation and ecosystem instability upon our descendants. A neglected aspect of these problems is the supposed extent of the burden that the current generation...

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Uso De Combustíveis E Emissões De Co2 No Brasil: Um Modelo Interregional De Insumo-Produto

Hilgemberg, E. M.; Guilhoto, J. J. M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This study quantifies CO2 emissions caused by consumption of natural gas, alcohol and petroleum derivatives for six Brazilian regions, and evaluates the impact of possible policies for emission control. The connection between the level of activity and CO2 emissions for each energy input is...

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Future harm and current obligations: the case of global warming

Spash, Clive L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993

There is a time during which aggregate benefits from greenhouse gas emissions dominate costs, but less comfort should be drawn from this situation than current emphasis on double CO2 scenarios suggests. The intertemporal asymmetry of impacts means initial benefits to most regions, from slight...

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