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Climatic fluctuations and the diffusion of agriculture

Ashraf, Quamrul; Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2013

This research examines variations in the diffusion of agriculture across countries and archaeological sites. The theory suggests that a society´s history of climatic shocks shaped the timing of its adoption of farming. Specifically, as long as climatic disturbances did not lead to a collapse of...

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Better to grow or better to improve? Measuring environmental efficiency in OECD countries with a Stochastic Environmental Kuznets Frontier

Badunenko, Oleg; Galeotti, Marzio; Hunt, Lester C. - 2021

The standard approach to the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) holds that as a country develops and GDP per capita grows environmental degradation initially increases but eventually it reaches a turning point where environmental degradation begins to decline. Environmental degradation takes many...

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The Economic Impact of Weather and Climate

Tol, Richard S.J. - 2021

I propose a new conceptual framework to disentangle the impacts of weather and climate on economic activity and growth …: A stochastic frontier model with climate in the production frontier and weather shocks as a source of inefficiency. I … in both rich and poor countries; positively in cold countries and negatively in hot ones. Weather anomalies reduce …

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Unit labor costs and manufacturing sector performance in Africa

Naidoo, Karmen; Ndikumana, Léonce - 2020

unit labor costs - average wages relative to productivity - for two-digit manufacturing sectors across a wide range of …. Further, we find that for Africa, the level and growth of labor productivity have a quantitatively stronger and more robust …

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Anatomy of Green Specialisation: Evidence from EU Production Data, 1995-2015

Vona, Francesco; Bontadini, Francesco - 2022

We study green specialisation across EU countries and detailed 4-digit industrial sectors over the period of 1995-2015 by harmonizing product-level data (PRODCOM). We propose a new list of green goods that refines lists proposed by international organizations by excluding goods with double...

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Does China Fall into Poverty-Environment Traps? Evidence from Long-term Income Dynamics and Urban Air Pollution

Wu, Jian-Xin; He, Ling-Yun; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2019

This paper examines the long-run relationship between income and urban air pollution using a joint distribution dynamics approach. This approach enables to estimate the transition process and long-run distribution and to examine the mechanisms behind the evolution process. The approach is...

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The Role of Education and Income Inequality on Environmental Quality. A Panel Data Analysis of the EKC Hypothesis on OECD

Maranzano, Paolo; Bento, Joao Paulo Cerdeira; Manera, Matteo - 2021

We study the impact of human capital and the level of education on the pollution-income relationship controlling for income inequality in 17 OECD countries. By applying an innovative approach to country grouping, based on the temporal evolution of income inequality and clustering techniques to...

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Concepts of justice in the degrowth debate

Hennen, Sonja - 2022

Degrowth's search for a qualitatively and quantitively different economy is given legitimacy by the severity of the socio-ecological crisis, paired with a lack of evidence that resource use and environmental impact can be decoupled in absolute terms at a meaningful point in time and studies...

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Modelling the effects of climate change on economic growth: a Bayesian Structural Global Vector Autoregressive approach

Ahmadi, Maryam; Casoli, Chiara; Manera, Matteo; … - 2022

The identification of the effects of climate shocks on economic growth is central to design effective policies aiming at managing the future global climate change challenge. In this study, we investigate the effects of temperature and precipitation shocks on economic growth across different...

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Capital accumulation, green paradox, and stranded assets: An endogenous growth perspective

Jin, Wei; Zhang, ZhongXiang - 2018

The existing studies on Green Paradox and stranded assets focus on dirty exhaustible assets (fossil fuel reserves) and show that environmental regulations, by changing the costs of dirty inputs relative to clean ones, lead to replacements of the former by the latter and stranding of dirty assets...

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