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The article examines conditions, under which the degree of democratization influences environmental policy outcomes, with a given resource endowments' heterogeneity as a crucial feature of a politico-economic process. We develop an OLG model with pollution as an aggregate externality. The...
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Using a considerable number of theoretical and empirical sources, we analyze the relationship between democracy and environment. First, we compare the situation in democracies and non-democracies. Later we discusses environmental distribution conflicts and the role of ratization influences...
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Political Economy may provide an important link between inequality and pollution. This paper studies the dynamic relationship between inequality and redistributive policy leading to differing transitional paths of pollution to the steady state, using a pollution-augmented framework developed by...
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Political economy may provide an important link between inequality and pollution. This paper studies the dynamic relationship between inequality and redistributive policy leading to differing transitional paths of pollution to the steady state, using a pollution-augmented framework developed by...
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The article examines conditions, under which the degree of democratization influences environmental policy outcomes, with a given resource endowments' heterogeneity as a crucial feature of a politico-economic process. We develop an OLG model with pollution as an aggregate externality. The...
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Die Berechnung der EEG-Umlage für das Jahr 2013 durch die Netzbetreiber hat zu einer breiten Diskussion über die sozialen Auswirkungen steigender Strompreise geführt. In der vorliegenden Studie werden modellgestützt Verteilungswirkungen bei einem Vergleich verschiedener Entwicklungspfade der...
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Die Arbeiten am sozioökonomischen Modell DEMOS der GWS mbH gehen auf die Arbeiten der Kooperationsgruppe "Sozioökonomische Modellierung" am Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung der Universität Bielefeld (ZiF) im Jahre 2004 zurück. Beteiligt waren Peter Bartelheimer (SOFI), Joachim Frohn...
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We test the hypothesis that more progressive redistribution contributes to emission reductions with the aid of fixed-effects estimation technique. Using a panel of 16 West European countries over the period 1990-00, we regress emission levels of four different air pollutants on two alternative...
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