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Economic geography and Urban environmental pollution

Quaas, Martin; Lange, Andreas - 2004

This paper studies Krugman's (1991) core-periphery model and extends it to include environmental pollution. We present … local environmental pollution, a third and more realistic type of equilibrium may occur in which most of the manufacturing …

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Simulating with RICE coalitionally stable burden sharing agreements for the climate change problem

Eyckmans, Johan; Tulkens, Henry - 1999

In this paper we test empirically with the Nordhaus and Yang (1996) RICE model the core property of the transfer scheme advocated by Germain, Toint and Tulkens (1997). This scheme is designed to sustain full co-operation in a voluntary international environmental agreement by making all...

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Simulating coalitionally stable burden sharing agreements for the climate change problem

Eyckmans, Johan; Tulkens, Henry - 2001

In this paper we introduce the CLIMNEG World Simulation (CWS) model for simulating cooperative game theoretic aspects …

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Pollution externalities in a Schumpeterian growth model

Koesler, Simon - 2010

links the pollution intensity of economic activity to technological progress. In a second step, it investigates the effect … of pollution on economic growth under the assumption that pollution intensities are related to technological progress …. Several conclusions emerge from the model. In equilibrium, the economy follows a balanced growth path. The effect of pollution …

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Trends and cycles in the Danish economy

Weissert, Christoffer Jessen - 2024

I present empirical results on the contribution of three key drivers of inflation in Denmark: an inflation trend anchored by inflation expectations; the Danish business cycle; and an energy price cycle. All three drivers contribute significantly to the development of inflation and explain most of...

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Toward a theory of evaluating predictive accuracy

Kunst, Robert M.; Jumah, Adusei - 2004

We suggest a theoretical basis for the comparative evaluation of forecasts. Instead of the general assumption that the data is generated from a stochastic model, we classify three stages of prediction experiments: pure non-stochastic prediction of given data, stochastic prediction of given data,...

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Google-haut Suomen asuntojen hintojen ennustajana

Widgrén, Joona - 2016

This report examines whether Google search queries can be used to predict the present and the near future house prices in Finland. Compared to a simple benchmark model, Google searches improve the prediction of the present house price index by 7.5 % measured by mean absolute error. In addition,...

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Relationship Between CO₂ Emissions and Trade: The Case of the EU

Steinhauser, Dušan; Kittová, Zuzana; Khúlová, Lucia - In: Intereconomics 59 (2024) 1, pp. 41-47

Understanding the relationship between international trade and CO2 emissions is crucial for designing appropriate measures to address climate change. This article focuses on CO2 emissions as one of the trade flow determinants of the EU countries, along with other factors including remoteness,...

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Voluntary Corporate Climate Initiatives and Regulatory Loom: Batten Down the Hatches

Ilic, Dragan; Mollet, Janick Christian - 2016

The rationale of voluntary corporate initiatives is often explained with anticipation of future regulation. We test this hypothesis for the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) and the Climate Leaders (CL), two popular voluntary US environmental programs to curb carbon emission that were operating...

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Income inequality and the environmental Kuznets curve

Borghesi, Simone - 2000

This study explores the link between environmental degradation, economic growth and income inequality within the framework of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. To investigate this issue, we examine how inequality affects carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions and their relationship with...

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