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The main purpose of this study is to investigate empirically the impact of energy consumption and economic growth on the environmental degradation as measured by CO2 emissions. We utilize the cointegration test, the fully modified OLS, and the panel causality to examine the causality between...
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In this paper we analyze the relative importance and mutual behavior of two competing base-load electricity generation options that each are capable of contributing significantly to the abatement of global CO2 emissions: nuclear energy and coal-based power production complemented with CO2...
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In this paper, we empirically investigate the causal nexus between economic growth (GDP), CO2 emissions (environmental …-Douglas production function. The empirical findings point to a bidirectional Granger causal linkage among GDP and pollution, GDP and … financial sector development, GDP and trade openness, financial sector development and trade openness, and trade openness and …
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Spain is on a path toward the decarbonization of the economy. This is mainly due to structural changes in the economy, where less energy-intensive sectors are gaining more relevance, and due to a higher use of less carbon-intensive primary energy products. This decarbonization trend is in fact...
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Are efficiency improvements in the use of natural resources the key for sustainable development, are they the solution to environmental problems, or will second round effects - so-called rebound effects - compensate or even overcompensate potential savings, will they fire back? The answer to...
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Are efficiency improvements in the use of natural resources the key for sustainable development, are they the solution to environmental problems, or will second round effects -so-called rebound effects- compensate or even overcompensate potential savings, will they fire back? The answer to this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291087
Arguments about the possibility and desirability of exponential economic growth have animated the environmental movement for half a century, since the publication of the Club of Rome report The Limits to Growth in 1972. The debate has been revived in recent years as the climate crisis has...
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This paper constructs annual GDP estimates for Ireland (1924-47) to join the first complete official aggregates. The …
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This article proposes a complementary explanation for why oil-rich economies have experienced a relative low GDP growth …
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indicators for the Chinese economy. We compare the dynamics of the estimated factors with GDP, and compare our factors with other … published indicators for the Chinese economy. The indicator data match the GDP dynamics well and discrepancies are very short … for GDP itself nor various coincident indicators are able to forecast them satisfactorily. …
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