Download or read book Three Essays on Economic Growth and Natural Resources written by Anne W. Walker and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Economic Growth and Natural Resources written by Betty Agnani Gambacorta and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Natural Resource Abundance Economic Growth and Development written by Jean-Philippe Christian Stijns and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Natural Resources Climate Change and Economic Growth written by Hongslip Sriket and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays in the Economics of Growth with Natural Resources and Environment written by Youssef Boudribila and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Three Essays on Economic Growth written by Lutz Hendricks and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic Development and the Environment written by Stefanie Sieber and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Essays in Environmental and Resource Economics written by Alexander G. James and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is comprised of three chapters. Chapter 1 provides a new explanation for the observed slow growth of resource-rich economies--a slow-growing resource industry. A dual-sector model illustrates that if a natural-resource industry grows more slowly than the rest of the economy, an increase in resource technology necessarily decreases economic growth. This implies that testing for a resource curse by estimating the conditional relationship between economic growth and resource dependence is insufficient. After neutralizing the confounding effect of a slow-growing natural-resource industry, there is little evidence that a resource curse exists at the country level. This methodology is also applied to the U.S.-county level. The results suggest natural resources act as a catalyst for growth at the sub-national level. Chapter 2 considers the extent to which stated preference surveys suffer from social-pressure bias. I develop a model that predicts social pressure creates greater bias in a referendum relative to a dichotomous-choice mechanism. Experimental evidence supports this theory. Social pressure did not significantly affect response rates in the dichotomous-choice mechanism, whereas as it did in the referendum. This result suggests if one elicits preferences in an environment where subjects experience social pressure, the dichotomous-choice device may be the more reliable elicitation mechanism. Motivated in part by the results given in Chapter 1, Chapter 3 explores how natural-resource wealth may stimulate economic growth. A dynamic growth model suggests income tax rates are decreasing in resource wealth. The model further predicts that decreasing income tax rates stimulates economic growth. U.S.-state data is moderately consistent with this theory. Governments in resource-dependent states tend to have lower income tax rates--suggesting local governments treat resource-based revenue as a substitute for other revenue sources. Examining a cross section of the data suggests decreasing income tax rates stimulates growth. However, consistent with existing literature, a panel of data indicates the relationship between income tax rates and growth is insignificant.
Download or read book Three Essays on the Determinants of Economic Growth written by Gernot Doppelhofer and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essay on Natural Resources Economic Growth Development and Equity written by Thi Tuyet Mai Nguyen and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable development is an attractive topic for economists. In the literature on economic growth and sustainable development, there are two core approaches used in most discussions. The first one is recognizing the importance of natural resources as well as strategies for using these resources for economic development in the context of their depletion. The second one is the issue of intergenerational equity in which the needs of the present generations can be assured without compromising the ability to meet the needs of the future generation. My thesis aims to study theoretical models on natural resources, economic growth, development and equity. Chapter I considers a two-sector economy with externalities. We study a theoretical model that investigates the relationship between the optimal dynamics of economic growth using renewable resources and environmental quality. In this model, the industrial sector uses intermediate inputs to produce a final consumption good, and another sector, called the exploitation sector, engages in exploiting a renewable resource. This resource can be sold directly at an exogenously determined market price, generating an additional source of income. We also take into account the negative externalities of the polluting industrial sector on the regenerating capacity of the renewable resource sector. Without the usual convexity or the super-modularity, we prove that the economy evolves to increase the net gain of stock some day in the future. This property ensures that in the long run, the economy gets very close to a steady state. We also establish the conditions ensuring the convergence of the economy in the long run. For sustainable development, one of the most difficult problems relying on criteria for Social Welfare Function is the reconciliation between equality and efficiency. The Anonymity Axiom states that the social ordering is invariant to the information regarding individual orderings. The Pareto Axiom imposes that if at least one generation increases its utility then the social welfare must improve. However, there is no SWF which satisfies both the Anonymity and Pareto Axioms. To overcome this difficulty, some authors propose several approaches to mitigate these axioms. Therefore, a lot of criteria have been introduced such as: Dominance, Weak Dominance, Weak Pareto, Monotonicity and so on. In the second chapter of my thesis, we have revisited some properties of a SWF in the literature taking into account the continuity of this SWF under different topologies. [...] Furthermore, we propose the notions weak no-dictactorship and strong no-dictatorship of the present and the future following the spirit of Chichilniski and provide a detailed description for parameters characterizing the two No dictatorship. In chapter 3, we study an inter-temporal optimization problem using a criterion which is a combination of Ramsey and Rawls criteria. A detailed description of the saving behavior through time is provided. [...] The last chapter develops a theoretical model to access the determinants of the effectiveness of Special Economic Zone and the conditions for its implementation. The results of this study show that there is a threshold such that for all the initial savings of a country above this level, it will be optimal to invest in new technology. Moreover, several factors including the price of technological capital, the wage of high-skilled labor, the initial income of the economy and the total factor productivity in the SEZ sector, endogenously determine this threshold. This chapter also proposes a service sector as an additional source to the accumulated capital, that can help the country pass this threshold.
Download or read book Three Essays with Spatial Considerations in Natural Resource and Development Economics written by Jacob Hochard and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bioeconomic models routinely account for the joint-determinedness of ecological and economic systems. Ecological systems provide benefits, or ecosystem services, to humans and human actions influence the provisioning of those services. To analyze tradeoffs in management, these services are often combined in a welfare function. Simplifying assumptions, designed to preserve model tractability, are common. These assumptions, in some cases, limit the scope of the resulting policy recommendations. We show that analytical tractability can be preserved and policy recommendations improved when finer ecological detail is employed in the specification of ecosystem services. Using a game-theoretic approach, an application of this concept is made by modeling three foundations of the behavioral ecology of wolves: refuge-seeking behavior, optimal foraging group size and territoriality. These behavioral patterns allow us to predict the density of wolves within and across management jurisdictions, which enables us to specify visitor congestion effects on public land, frequency of wildlife viewing, harvest success rates, the number of recreation days within a harvest season and harvest season length. This approach makes a notable contribution by examining management tradeoffs not only between but also within competing consumptive and non-consumptive ecosystem services. Chapter 2: Market accessibility and economic growth: Insights from a new dimension of inequality We modify an endogenous growth model to allow for households' differential access to markets. Such local production spillovers highlight a new dimension of inequality arising through geographic remoteness and predicts divergent growth patterns among countries with poorly market-integrated households. The model is tested using an instrumental variables approach that takes advantage of the relationship between market accessibility and exogenous geographic features of the landscape as well as spatial data derived from a unique global dataset characterizing country-level market accessibility distributions. We find evidence that production spillovers diminish concavely across space before tapering off convexly in remote areas. This result suggests that the marginal household exhibiting production spillovers is located approximately five hours from the nearest market center. The policy implications are that governments could adopt pro-growth inequality-reducing policies using targeted infrastructural investments, relocation subsidies or income redistribution mechanisms. Based on our spillover threshold estimates, these policies would be access-equality enhancing for 5.1 billion people globally and access-equality reducing for 825 million people globally. We also present findings that growth divergence occurs among countries with geographically less pervasive markets. This outcome may explain why wealthier nations exhibit divergent growth paths relative to poorer nations. Chapter 3: Poverty and the spatial dependence of public infrastructure Despite mounting evidence that public infrastructure plays a critical role in poverty alleviation, this branch of empirical work remains focused on highly-localized household-level studies and remains disconnected from economy-wide studies of growth, poverty and distribution. Because public capital investments are often made by central governments, it is possible analyses quantifying local impacts of infrastructural projects are of insufficient scale to capture the consequences of inefficient public expenditures. We use time-varying and georeferenced poverty and public infrastructure data to determine the channels through which public infrastructure influences poverty dynamics. Results suggest that the direct poverty increasing effect of infrastructure-adjusted growth is approximately twice as large in magnitude as the direct poverty-decreasing effect of poverty-adjusted growth. We also find that infrastructure-adjusted growth increases poverty-adjusted growth. After accounting for this amplifying indirect effect of public infrastructure on poverty trends, the positive and negative effects of public infrastructure investment offset and poverty reduction is driven primarily by the poverty-adjusted growth rate. These results highlight that a successful poverty reduction policy will not only make investments in public transportation infrastructure but must also identify those populations in critical need. Our results are consistent with the notion that reckless investment in public capital could perpetuate instead of alleviate geographic poverty traps.
Download or read book Three Essays on the Effects of Natural Resources Rents Institutions and Demographic Factors on Economic Growth written by Temitope Abraham Ajayi and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Essays on Growth and the World Economy written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
