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Economic Development and CO2 Emissions: A Nonparametric Panel Approach

Azomahou, Théophile; Laisney, François; van Phu, Nguyen - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

We examine the empirical relation between CO2 emissions per capita and GDP per capita during the period 1960-1996, using a panel of 100 countries. Relying on the nonparametric poolability test of Baltagi et al. (1996), we find evidence of structural stability of the relationship. We then specify...

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Economic Development and CO₂ Emissions: A Nonparametric Panel Approach

Azomahou, Théophile; Laisney, François; van Phu, Nguyen - 2005

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Differentiation of Green Taxes: A Political-Economy Analysis for Germany

Anger, Niels; Böhringer, Christoph; Lange, Andreas - 2006

In this paper we study political-economy determinants of the differentiation of environmental taxes between sectors. Using a common-agency model, we provide predictions on tax differentiation which are then tested using data from the German Ecological Tax Reform. As the reform is revenue neutral...

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Public Interest vs. Interest Groups: Allowance Allocation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme

Anger, Niels; Böhringer, Christoph; Oberndorfer, Ulrich - 2008

This paper presents a political-economy analysis of allowance allocation in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS). A common-agency model suggests that a politicalsupport maximizing government considers the preferences of sectoral interest groups besides public interest when allocating...

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Words speak louder than actions: The impact of politics on economic performance

Osterloh, Steffen - 2010

In this paper, a new approach to disclose the impact of politics on economic growth is presented: we use data derived … growth negatively; those which proposed incentives for business as well as technology and infrastructure had a positive …

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Tax policy and income inequality in the US, 1979-2007

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - 2014

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method allowing us to disentangle the policy effect from changing market incomes. Over the period 1979-2007, the cumulative policy effect aggravated inequality by increasing the income share of the top...

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Elite structure and the provision of health-promoting public goods

Krieger, Tommy - 2020

We compile biographical information on more than 5,000 Prussian politicians and exploit newly digitized administrative data to examine whether landowning and landless elites differ in the extent to which they support health infrastructure projects. Using exogenous variation in soil texture, we...

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Spreading the disease: Protest in times of pandemics

Lange, Martin; Monscheuer, Ole - 2021

This study analyzes the impact of COVID-19 deniers on the spread of COVID-19 in Germany. In a first step, we establish a link between regional proxies of COVID-19 deniers and infection rates. We then estimate the causal impact of large anti-lockdown protests on the spread of COVID-19 using an...

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Using machine learning for measuring democracy: An update

Gründler, Klaus; Krieger, Tommy - 2021

We provide a comprehensive overview of the literature on the measurement of democracy and present an extensive update … improvements are particularly notable: First, we produce a continuous and a dichotomous version of the Machine Learning democracy … conceptualization of the Machine Learning Index. Finally, we largely expand the data coverage by providing democracy indicators for 186 …

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The 2015 refugee inflow and concerns over immigration

Gallegos Torres, Katia - 2021

How did the large asylum-seeker inflow to Germany in 2015 affect concerns about immigration? Using individual-level panel data for the years 2012-2018, I show that after 2015 concerns about immigration increased by about 21 pp. and support for extreme right-wing parties by about 1.7 pp. These...

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