2024-03-29T06:59:05Z
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/cgi/oai2
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:469
2019-09-27T16:33:05Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/469/
Decreasing of Oil Extraction: Consumption behavior along transition paths
Bazhanov, Andrei
Q38 - Government Policy
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
A normative analysis of the problem of optimal extraction of a non-renewable resource is considered. The economy depends on the essential non-renewable resource and the rate of the resource extraction increases over time. At some instant the government gradually switches to a sustainable (in sense of non-decreasing consumption over time) pattern of the resource extraction. Different approaches are offered for the construction some curves of switching to decreasing paths of the resource depletion. Consumption paths have diverse behavior patterns along these curves, including a path of unlimited growth. A new approach to the Rawlsian maximin criterion which allows for growth of consumption is offered.
2006-10-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/469/1/MPRA_paper_469.pdf
Bazhanov, Andrei (2006): Decreasing of Oil Extraction: Consumption behavior along transition paths.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:661
2019-10-07T16:30:50Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/661/
Optimal Acid Rain Abatement Strategies for Eastern Canada
Mariam, Yohannes
Smith, W.B.G.
Q48 - Government Policy
Q38 - Government Policy
Q57 - Ecological Economics: Ecosystem Services ; Biodiversity Conservation ; Bioeconomics ; Industrial Ecology
Q54 - Climate ; Natural Disasters and Their Management ; Global Warming
Q5 - Environmental Economics
Q53 - Air Pollution ; Water Pollution ; Noise ; Hazardous Waste ; Solid Waste ; Recycling
Q51 - Valuation of Environmental Effects
Q55 - Technological Innovation
Q52 - Pollution Control Adoption and Costs ; Distributional Effects ; Employment Effects
Q56 - Environment and Development ; Environment and Trade ; Sustainability ; Environmental Accounts and Accounting ; Environmental Equity ; Population Growth
C61 - Optimization Techniques ; Programming Models ; Dynamic Analysis
In the past environmental management practices have been based on disparate analysis of the impacts of pollutants on selected components of ecosystems. However, holistic analysis of emission reduction strategies is necessary to justify that actions taken to protect the environment would not unduly punish economic growth or vice versa.
When environmental management programs are implemented, it would be extremely difficult for the industry to attain the targeted emission reduction in a single year in order to eliminate impacts on ecosystems. It means that targets have to be established as increments or narrowing the gap between the desired level of atmospheric deposition and actual deposition. These targets should also be designed in a way that would balance the impacts on the economy with improvements in environmental quality.
Environment Canada in partnership with other organizations has developed an Integrated Assessment Modeling Platform. This platform enables to identify an emission reduction strategy(ies) that is(are) able to attain the desired environmental protection at a minimum cost to the industry. In this study, an attempt is made to examine the impact on the industry when the level of protection provided to the aquatic ecosystems is implemented using environmental and environmental-economic goals as objectives using Canadian IAM platform.
The modeling platform takes into account sources and receptor regions in North America. The results of the analysis indicated that reductions of at least 50% of depositions of SO2 would require complete removal of emissions from all sources. However, this is not compatible with the paradigm of balancing economy with the environment. Therefore, gradual reductions in emissions as well as depositions were found to be plausible strategy. Furthermore, optimization using only a single receptor at a time resulted in significantly higher reduction in emissions compared to optimization that incorporates all the twelve Canadian receptors in a single run. It implies that globally optimal emission reduction strategy (i.e., multi-receptor optimization) would not penalize the sources of emission compared to locally optimal emission reduction strategy (i.e., single receptor optimization). It is hoped that with this kind of analysis of feasible environmental targets can be put in place without jeopardizing the performance of the economy or industry while ensuring continual improvements in environmental health of ecosystems.
1998-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/661/1/MPRA_paper_661.pdf
Mariam, Yohannes and Smith, W.B.G. (1998): Optimal Acid Rain Abatement Strategies for Eastern Canada.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:669
2019-10-05T16:35:05Z
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7375626A656374733D43:4331:433133
7375626A656374733D51:5133:513331
7375626A656374733D51:5135:513536
7375626A656374733D43:4335:433533
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7375626A656374733D51:5134:513433
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/669/
Trends in Resource Extraction and Implications for Sustainability in Canada
Mariam, Yohannes
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q38 - Government Policy
C51 - Model Construction and Estimation
Q57 - Ecological Economics: Ecosystem Services ; Biodiversity Conservation ; Bioeconomics ; Industrial Ecology
Q5 - Environmental Economics
Q51 - Valuation of Environmental Effects
Q2 - Renewable Resources and Conservation
C46 - Specific Distributions ; Specific Statistics
C13 - Estimation: General
Q31 - Demand and Supply ; Prices
Q56 - Environment and Development ; Environment and Trade ; Sustainability ; Environmental Accounts and Accounting ; Environmental Equity ; Population Growth
C53 - Forecasting and Prediction Methods ; Simulation Methods
C22 - Time-Series Models ; Dynamic Quantile Regressions ; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models ; Diffusion Processes
Q54 - Climate ; Natural Disasters and Their Management ; Global Warming
Q34 - Natural Resources and Domestic and International Conflicts
Q53 - Air Pollution ; Water Pollution ; Noise ; Hazardous Waste ; Solid Waste ; Recycling
Q43 - Energy and the Macroeconomy
Q52 - Pollution Control Adoption and Costs ; Distributional Effects ; Employment Effects
There is a disagreement on the concept, definition and application of the paradigm of sustainable development. The definition that has been accepted by many involves several components, and it is difficult to measure or quantify indicators. Depending on the structure of the economy, it is possible to identify important variables and examine some aspects of sustainability. In this respect, analysis of indicators related to the extraction of natural resources seems to be appropriate for a resource-based economy.
For resource-based economy such as Canada is the speed with which natural resources are extracted greatly influence patterns of growth and development. Indicators can be established to measure the progress toward to or demise of sustainability. Indicators that deal with the speed with which resources such as non-renewable energy, minerals, forests, soil, water, etc., have been utilized to examine aspects of sustainability. However, these indicators have been argued to provide less guidance for the implementation of feasible public policies unless supplemented by other kinds of analyses that relate resource use with socioeconomic parameters.
The utilization of resources could be evaluated in relation to available stock as a proxy for progress toward sustainability. The extraction of resources may also cause major environmental problems due to the release of pollutants or wastes that requires an increasing amount of expenditure for environmnetal protection. This is crucial for countries such as Canada whose major export is dependent on availability of natural resources and heavily impacted by external public debt.
The present study will examine stock, depletion and addition of natural resources to evaluate sustainability of consumption patterns. In addition, the consumption of these resources will be compared with selected socioeconomic indicators such as GDP, employment, etc., to anticipate whether or not these factors may have contributed to increased consumption of natural resources. Furthermore, attempts will be made to investigate the patterns of expenditure to protect the environment from wastes and pollutants. The findings of this study could serve as an early warning system with respect to depletion of resources and their consequent environmental impacts.
1999-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/669/1/MPRA_paper_669.pdf
Mariam, Yohannes (1999): Trends in Resource Extraction and Implications for Sustainability in Canada.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:1671
2019-09-27T11:27:03Z
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2019
2013-02-11T14:26:10Z
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2214
2019-09-26T12:53:44Z
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7375626A656374733D4F:4F31:4F3133
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7375626A656374733D51:5133:513332
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7375626A656374733D51:5133:513330
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2214/
The Economic Value of Industrial Minerals and Rocks for Developing Countries: A Discussion of Key Issues
Wilson, Tetevi Bahun
Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich
O17 - Formal and Informal Sectors ; Shadow Economy ; Institutional Arrangements
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
Q38 - Government Policy
Q31 - Demand and Supply ; Prices
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
O22 - Project Analysis
Q30 - General
O21 - Planning Models ; Planning Policy
This paper provides a few general comments on the nature and economic value of industrial minerals and rocks and the need for an increased exploitation and use of these materials in developing countries. These materials are of great economic value as main raw materials for the construction, glass, abrasive, paper, chemical, ceramics, metallurgical and agricultural industries. Developing countries dispose of many of these materials, and could derive greater economic benefits from them. Per capita consumption of industrial mineral products continues to grow in developed countries and part of this demand could be met by exports from developing countries. The paper describes some of the issues to be addressed and steps to be taken if developing countries are to gain from industrial minerals and rocks
2007-03-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2214/1/MPRA_paper_2214.pdf
Wilson, Tetevi Bahun and Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich (2007): The Economic Value of Industrial Minerals and Rocks for Developing Countries: A Discussion of Key Issues.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2507
2019-09-27T04:57:32Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2507/
The peak of oil extraction and consistency of the government's short- and long-run policies
Bazhanov, Andrei
Q38 - Government Policy
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
The term "oil peak" usually is connected with the positive analysis problem, namely, with the problem of defining the year when the increase in the rate of oil extraction will be physically impossible. However, a normative approach to the problem of optimal extraction of a nonrenewable resource seems more important. We consider the economy which depends on the essential nonrenewable resource and the rate of the resource extraction increases over time. At some instant the government gradually switches to a sustainable (in sense of nondecreasing consumption over time) pattern of the resource extraction. Different approaches are offered for the construction of the paths of switching to decreasing resource use. Some seemingly attractive short-run policies of switching to decreasing extraction can run counter to long-run criteria. Reformulation of the short-run criterion can imply the optimal transition path consistent with the long-run government goals. It is shown analytically and numerically that there are values of parameters for the transition paths of extraction that consumption along these paths is asymptotically constant or infinitely growing. Numerical examples show for different reserve estimates that the "sustainable" peak of oil extraction must be earlier than the expected "physical" peak. A new approach to the Rawlsian maximin criterion which allows for growth of consumption is offered.
2007-03-20
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2507/1/MPRA_paper_2507.pdf
Bazhanov, Andrei (2007): The peak of oil extraction and consistency of the government's short- and long-run policies.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:2976
2019-09-26T13:32:34Z
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7375626A656374733D51:5133:513332
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2976/
Switching to a sustainable efficient extraction path
Bazhanov, Andrei
Q38 - Government Policy
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
The economy depends on the essential nonrenewable resource and the path of extraction is nondecreasing and inefficient. At some point the government gradually switches to a sustainable (in sense of nondecreasing consumption over time) pattern of the resource use. Technical restrictions do not allow to switch to the efficient extraction instantly. Transition curves calibrated to the current pattern of world oil production are used as the extraction paths in the "intermediate" period. However, there is no solution in finite time for the "smooth" switching from the optimal "transition" to the optimal efficient path, constructed with respect to the same welfare criterion. We analyze numerically two approaches for the approximate solution: "epsilon-smooth" switching and "epsilon-optimal" transition curve with smooth switching. Both cases give the unexpected result: the consumption path along the "inefficient" transition curve is always superior to the constant which we obtain after switching to the "efficient" Hartwick's curve. The result implies that for the correct switching to the efficient curve in finite time the saving rule must be adjusted. We estimate the importance of following the efficient path by comparing the consumption along the plausible transition path and the efficient pattern of the resource use. For simplicity we use in our examples the constant per capita consumption as a welfare criterion and the Hartwick rule as the benchmark of investment rule.
2007-04-20
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/2976/1/MPRA_paper_2976.pdf
Bazhanov, Andrei (2007): Switching to a sustainable efficient extraction path.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:5343
2019-10-01T18:21:20Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5343/
Сценарии перехода к устойчивым темпам добычи нефти в России
Andreeva, Anastasiya
Bazhanov, Andrei
Q38 - Government Policy
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
The rates of oil depletion are increasing during the last ten years in Russia and the Russian Energy Program, approved by the government, implies further growth of oil production by 2020. We used the transition curves analysis in aggregate model to examine the long-run consumption along different possible paths of oil extraction. We conclude that the long-run consumption along the paths associated with the Energy Program is about twice as less as the consumption along the paths switching to sustainable extraction in the short run.
2007-10-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5343/1/MPRA_paper_5343.pdf
Andreeva, Anastasiya and Bazhanov, Andrei (2007): Сценарии перехода к устойчивым темпам добычи нефти в России.
ru
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:6792
2019-09-30T20:43:16Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6792/
Inconsistency between a criterion and the initial conditions
Bazhanov, Andrei
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q38 - Government Policy
What if an unsustainable economy decides to switch in finite time to a sustainable path of a nonrenewable resource extraction which is optimal with respect to some criterion? We consider this problem on the example of the Dasgupta-Heal-Solow-Stiglitz model (DHSS) using constant consumption over time as a criterion. It turns out that if the criterion has no connections with the "opportunities" of the economy (initial conditions) then the resulting "optimal" path of consumption can be inferior to the one along some sub-optimal sustainable paths of extraction calibrated on the original initial conditions. In our case we have obtained under the standard Hartwick Rule bounded and unbounded growth of consumption along these sub-optimal paths.
2008-01-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/6792/1/MPRA_paper_6792.pdf
Bazhanov, Andrei (2008): Inconsistency between a criterion and the initial conditions.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:7343
2019-09-28T06:43:18Z
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7375626A656374733D51:5132:513233
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7343/
Analysing Institutional Set-up of Forest Management in Pakistan
Hasan, Lubna
Q38 - Government Policy
Q23 - Forestry
Q01 - Sustainable Development
This study analyses the institutional set-up of forest management in Pakistan, focusing on the North West Frontier Province, which houses 40 percent of the total forestlands. These areas have faced significant deforestation in the past. It is feared that if nothing is done to check this process, these forests will soon disappear. The study argues for the Property Rights School of thought that the roots of environmental problems are to be traced to inadequate and ill-defined property institutions. The study develops a normative criterion, describing the conditions that are essential for optimal utilisation and conservation of a resource, to be used in assessing the present situation. The analysis indicates that there are problems in the ownership structure, in the enforcement of property rules, as well as in the management system. It is concluded that the present institutional set-up is inappropriate to achieve the objective of forest conservation, and changes in this set-up are suggested. The study puts forward ‘collective management’ as an alternative institutional set-up.
2001
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7343/1/MPRA_paper_7343.pdf
Hasan, Lubna (2001): Analysing Institutional Set-up of Forest Management in Pakistan.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:7656
2019-10-03T12:37:51Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7656/
National Revenue Funds: Their Efficacy for Fiscal Stability and Intergenerational Equity
Asfaha, Samuel
H50 - General
H20 - General
H30 - General
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
Q33 - Resource Booms
E21 - Consumption ; Saving ; Wealth
Q38 - Government Policy
E30 - General
N50 - General, International, or Comparative
H60 - General
In countries where the political-economy incentives that governments face do not foster prudent revenue management, national revenue funds (NRFs) should not be used to impose optimal expenditure paths. In such countries, NRFs should instead be used as policy tools for re-aligning the diverging interests of governments, influential interest groups and society at large. This paper argues that nation-wide multi-stakeholder consultations are the way to go about it. Any multi-stakeholder consultation should target three important issues: establishing a national revenue management law which is acceptable to all stakeholders; establishing a multi-stakeholder independent oversight and monitoring committee to ensure checks-and-balances and compliance with the national revenue law; and giving the law constitutional status, to protect it from amendment or override by a single entity.
2007-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/7656/1/MPRA_paper_7656.pdf
Asfaha, Samuel (2007): National Revenue Funds: Their Efficacy for Fiscal Stability and Intergenerational Equity. Published in:
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:8815
2019-09-29T04:39:46Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8815/
Sustainable use of renewable resources, Chapter 2.1
Chichilnisky, Graciela
Beltratti, Andrea
Heal, Geoffrey
Q38 - Government Policy
Q3 - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation
Q01 - Sustainable Development
We consider here optimal use patterns for renewable resources and address the problem of optimal use of renewable resources under a variety of assumptions both about the nature of the economy in which these resources are embedded and about the objective of that economy. Although we focus here on the technical economic issues of defining and characterizing paths which are optimal in various senses, in the presence of renewable resources, one should not loose sight of the very real motivation underlying these exercises: many of the earth's most important biological and ecological resources are renewable, so that in their management we confront the fundamental choice which underlies this paper, namely their extinction, or their preservation as viable species.
1998
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8815/1/MPRA_paper_8815.pdf
Chichilnisky, Graciela and Beltratti, Andrea and Heal, Geoffrey (1998): Sustainable use of renewable resources, Chapter 2.1. Published in: Sustainability: Dynamics and Uncertainty (1998): pp. 49-76.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:9510
2019-10-03T07:11:12Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9510/
Maximin-optimal sustainable growth with nonrenewable resource and externalities
Bazhanov, Andrei
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q38 - Government Policy
O47 - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth ; Aggregate Productivity ; Cross-Country Output Convergence
D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
H23 - Externalities ; Redistributive Effects ; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
I offer an approach linking a welfare criterion to the "sustainable development potential" of the economy. This implies a dependence of a criterion on the information about the current state. I consider the problem for the Dasgupta-Heal-Solow-Stiglitz model with externalities. The economy-linked criterion is constructed on an example of the maximin principle applied to a hybrid level-growth measure. This measure includes as special cases the conventional measures of consumption level and percent change as a measure of growth. The hybrid measure or geometrically weighted percent can be used for measuring sustainable growth as an alternative to percent. The closed form solutions are obtained for the optimal paths including the paths, dynamically consistent with the information updates.
2008-01-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9510/1/MPRA_paper_9510.pdf
Bazhanov, Andrei (2008): Maximin-optimal sustainable growth with nonrenewable resource and externalities.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:9914
2019-10-03T17:03:19Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9914/
Sustainable growth: Compatibility between criterion and the initial state
Bazhanov, Andrei
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q38 - Government Policy
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
There is a large body of research devoted to our understanding of sustainable growth in resource based economies. Some of this research is inapplicable to the real economy. This is a result of inconsistency between the commonly used criteria and the initial state of the real economy. The inconsistency can lead to either inferior, unsustainable, or nonexistent optimal paths of consumption per capita if the criterion is not linked to the initial state. We demonstrate this in a model of the Dasgupta-Heal-Solow-Stiglitz variety with the constant consumption per capita as a benchmark criterion. Our results show that the inconsistency in this case can imply Pareto inferior paths of consumption per capita.
2008-08-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/9914/1/MPRA_paper_9914.pdf
Bazhanov, Andrei (2008): Sustainable growth: Compatibility between criterion and the initial state.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:10108
2019-09-27T18:44:22Z
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Being rich in energy resources – a blessing or a curse
Schubert, Samuel R.
F52 - National Security ; Economic Nationalism
F0 - General
Q33 - Resource Booms
O1 - Economic Development
Q38 - Government Policy
N55 - Asia including Middle East
H56 - National Security and War
E31 - Price Level ; Inflation ; Deflation
Y1 - Data: Tables and Charts
F59 - Other
E6 - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
H2 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
F51 - International Conflicts ; Negotiations ; Sanctions
Q4 - Energy
Q34 - Natural Resources and Domestic and International Conflicts
N50 - General, International, or Comparative
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
L71 - Mining, Extraction, and Refining: Hydrocarbon Fuels
C19 - Other
F43 - Economic Growth of Open Economies
F35 - Foreign Aid
L78 - Government Policy
O2 - Development Planning and Policy
F14 - Empirical Studies of Trade
H10 - General
N54 - Europe: 1913-
F50 - General
A13 - Relation of Economics to Social Values
L13 - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
L3 - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise
O57 - Comparative Studies of Countries
F53 - International Agreements and Observance ; International Organizations
F41 - Open Economy Macroeconomics
“Being rich in energy resources – a blessing or a curse” finds that an energy resource curse plagues many
EU supplier states. This in turn directly affects Europe’s energy supply security and threatens to engulf
Europe in unwanted hostilities at home and abroad. The study addresses seven issues including the
evidence suggesting that a curse exists among Europe’s external energy suppliers, active programs to
limit that risk, the significance of economic diversification, the applicability of dividend programs, the
link between corruption and security of energy supplies, additional possible actions of the Union, and
further threats posed by resource cursed countries. It establishes a definitive links between corruption
and supply security, poor transparency, and inequality, and proves that a low level of economic
diversification is a reliable indicator for the existence of the curse. It also finds that there are examples of
excellence in recovering from and even converting the curse to a blessing. In looking at the policy
instruments available to the Union, the study determines that the Union does have the technical expertise
and financial means to restructure political and economic systems and strengthen public administrations
and institutions and found that Europe’s successful implementation of similar past programs could be
taken, at least in part, as models for future efforts. Finally, the study recommends the controversial
approach of conditionality in the use of aid and finds that the Union should legislate standards for the
reporting and auditing of energy exports and imports at home and abroad.
2007-01-31
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10108/1/MPRA_paper_10108.pdf
Schubert, Samuel R. (2007): Being rich in energy resources – a blessing or a curse. Published in: EP Policy Department Studies , Vol. 614, No. 386 (31 January 2007): pp. 1-60.
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Revisiting the oil curse: are oil rich nations really doomed to autocracy and inequality?
Schubert, Samuel R.
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
F52 - National Security ; Economic Nationalism
F0 - General
L71 - Mining, Extraction, and Refining: Hydrocarbon Fuels
Q33 - Resource Booms
F43 - Economic Growth of Open Economies
Q38 - Government Policy
O1 - Economic Development
F35 - Foreign Aid
L78 - Government Policy
F59 - Other
O2 - Development Planning and Policy
F14 - Empirical Studies of Trade
H2 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
Q4 - Energy
H10 - General
L13 - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
Q34 - Natural Resources and Domestic and International Conflicts
N50 - General, International, or Comparative
L3 - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise
O57 - Comparative Studies of Countries
F41 - Open Economy Macroeconomics
F53 - International Agreements and Observance ; International Organizations
There is an adage about wealth and democracy that says “the more well-to-do a nation, the greater the chances it will sustain democracy.” Accordingly, one would expect that nations rich in natural resources, and particularly those with large deposits of oil – a clear absolute advantage – would shine far beyond all others as beacons of democracy and freedom. Unfortunately, nothing seems further from the truth. Studies undoubtedly show that oil dependence leads to a skewing of political forces. It concentrates production to geographic enclaves and concentrates power into the hands of a few elites. It becomes a fisherman’s market for rent-seeking behavior, where those with money jockey for positions and influence to acquire lucrative contracts, the revenues from which are used to further bribe and manipulate those in power. Consequently, those in power secure the positions of their benefactors, creating a vicious circle of corruption and patronage, secured from open inspection of a free press, public accountability, or standards of international business and political practice. They tend to have stratified social classes with a tiny minority earning millions while a vast portion of the population wallow in abject poverty. How is it possible to be so rich, yet so poor? Is this phenomenon, known as the “oil curse,” or in social science parlance, the “resource curse” truly to blame? Does oil really impede democracy and economic growth? “Revisiting the oil curse: are oil rich nations really doomed to autocracy and inequality?” addresses precisely these questions, and the answers are no less than disturbing.
2006-08-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/10109/1/MPRA_paper_10109.pdf
Schubert, Samuel R. (2006): Revisiting the oil curse: are oil rich nations really doomed to autocracy and inequality? Published in: Oil and Gas Business , Vol. 2006, (1 August 2006): pp. 1-16.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:12350
2019-09-30T04:11:00Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12350/
Sustainable growth in a resource-based economy: the extraction-saving relationship
Bazhanov, Andrei
Q38 - Government Policy
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
O47 - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth ; Aggregate Productivity ; Cross-Country Output Convergence
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
The paper presents two new results for the Dasgupta-Heal-Solow-Stiglitz model with an essential nonrenewable resource:
(1) the pattern of resource extraction can be more important for sustainable growth than the pattern of saving when the Hotelling Rule modifier is not small enough;
(2) the qualitative behavior of the long-run per capita output can be examined along any smooth enough path of extraction for any variable saving rate using the "index of sustainable extraction" introduced in the paper.
2008-12-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/12350/1/MPRA_paper_12350.pdf
Bazhanov, Andrei (2008): Sustainable growth in a resource-based economy: the extraction-saving relationship.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:14775
2019-09-29T04:50:40Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/14775/
The peak of oil extraction and a modified maximin principle
Bazhanov, Andrei
Q38 - Government Policy
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
The term "oil peak" usually is connected with the positive analysis problem, namely, with the problem of defining the year when the increase in the rate of oil extraction will be physically impossible. However, a normative approach to the problem of optimal extraction of a nonrenewable resource seems more important. We consider the economy which depends on the essential nonrenewable resource and the rate of the resource extraction increases over time. At some instant the government gradually switches to a sustainable (in sense of nondecreasing consumption over time) pattern of the resource extraction. Different criteria are considered for the construction some curves of switching to decreasing paths of the resource depletion. Consumption paths have diverse behavior patterns along these curves, including a path of unlimited growth. A new approach to the Rawlsian maximin criterion which allows for growth of consumption is offered.
2006-12-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/14775/1/MPRA_paper_14775.pdf
Bazhanov, Andrei (2006): The peak of oil extraction and a modified maximin principle. Published in: Comparative Institution and Political-Economy: Theoretical, Experimental and Empirical Analysis (22 February 2007): pp. 99-128.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:14994
2019-09-29T05:49:06Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/14994/
Price volatility and risk exposure: on the interaction of quota and product markets
Baldursson, Fridrik M.
Fehr, Nils-Henrik M. von der
Q38 - Government Policy
D81 - Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
L51 - Economics of Regulation
Q28 - Government Policy
D9 - Intertemporal Choice
H23 - Externalities ; Redistributive Effects ; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
We consider an industry with firms that produce a final good emitting pollution to different degree as a side effect. Pollution is regulated by a tradable quota system where some quotas may have been allocated at the outset, i.e. before the quota market is opened. We study how volatility in quota price affects firm behaviour, taking into account the impact of quota price on final-good price. The impact on the individual firm differs depending on how polluting it is - whether it is `clean' or `dirty'- and whether it has been allocated quotas at the outset. In the absence of long-term or forward contracting, the optimal initial quota allocation turns out to resemble a grandfathering regime: clean firms are allocated no quotas - dirty firms are allocated quotas for a part of their emissions.With forward contracts and in the absence of wealth effects initial quota allocation has no effect on firm behaviour.
2009-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/14994/1/MPRA_paper_14994.pdf
Baldursson, Fridrik M. and Fehr, Nils-Henrik M. von der (2009): Price volatility and risk exposure: on the interaction of quota and product markets.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:15109
2019-10-05T05:15:14Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15109/
Адекватность закрытой модели для российской экономики в задаче сравнительного анализа Энергетической стратегии России
Bazhanov, Andrei
Belyaev, Alexander
Q38 - Government Policy
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
O22 - Project Analysis
Q01 - Sustainable Development
O21 - Planning Models ; Planning Policy
Q43 - Energy and the Macroeconomy
We compare the short- and the long-run consequences of Russia's Energy Strategy to 2020 and of the project of the Strategy to 2030 with a hypothetical scenario of the weak-sustainable oil extraction, starting from 2008 and providing asymptotically constant per capita consumption in the long run. The problem was examined by Andreeva, Bazhanov (2007) and Bazhanov, Tyukhov (2008) for the closed Dasgupta-Heal-Solow-Stiglitz model. In this paper, we show that the open-economy assumptions do not change the qualitative results of comparative analysis, which are not in favor of the Strategy in the long run.
2009-05-07
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15109/1/MPRA_paper_15109.pdf
Bazhanov, Andrei and Belyaev, Alexander (2009): Адекватность закрытой модели для российской экономики в задаче сравнительного анализа Энергетической стратегии России.
ru
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:15492
2019-09-26T22:25:46Z
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Governing of Agro-Ecosystem Services
Bachev, Hrabrin
D86 - Economics of Contract: Theory
Q28 - Government Policy
H41 - Public Goods
H23 - Externalities ; Redistributive Effects ; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
Q57 - Ecological Economics: Ecosystem Services ; Biodiversity Conservation ; Bioeconomics ; Industrial Ecology
L14 - Transactional Relationships ; Contracts and Reputation ; Networks
Q38 - Government Policy
K32 - Environmental, Health, and Safety Law
Q13 - Agricultural Markets and Marketing ; Cooperatives ; Agribusiness
Q15 - Land Ownership and Tenure ; Land Reform ; Land Use ; Irrigation ; Agriculture and Environment
D21 - Firm Behavior: Theory
D73 - Bureaucracy ; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations ; Corruption
D02 - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
K00 - General
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
Q01 - Sustainable Development
P28 - Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment
Q12 - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
Q18 - Agricultural Policy ; Food Policy
D23 - Organizational Behavior ; Transaction Costs ; Property Rights
Q34 - Natural Resources and Domestic and International Conflicts
O17 - Formal and Informal Sectors ; Shadow Economy ; Institutional Arrangements
D74 - Conflict ; Conflict Resolution ; Alliances ; Revolutions
Q56 - Environment and Development ; Environment and Trade ; Sustainability ; Environmental Accounts and Accounting ; Environmental Equity ; Population Growth
Q27 - Issues in International Trade
L22 - Firm Organization and Market Structure
In this paper we incorporate interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics (combining Economics, Organization, Law, Sociology, Behavioral and Political Sciences), and suggest a framework for analysis of mechanisms of governance of agro-ecosystem services. Firstly, we present a new approach for analysis and improvement of governance of agro-ecosystem services. It takes into account the role of specific institutional environment (formal and informal rules, distribution of rights, systems of enforcement); and behavioral characteristics of individual agents (preferences, bounded rationality, opportunism, risk aversion, trust); and transactions costs associated with ecosystem services and their critical factors (uncertainty, frequency, asset specificity, appropriability); and comparative efficiency of market, private, public and hybrid modes of governance. Secondly, we identify spectrum of market and private forms of governance of agro-ecosystem services (voluntary initiatives; market trade with eco-products and services; special contractual arrangements; collective actions; vertical integration), and evaluate their efficiency and potential. Next, we identify needs for public involvement in the governance of agro-ecosystem services, and assess comparative efficiency of alternative modes of public interventions (assistance, regulations, funding, taxing, provision, partnership, property right modernization).
Finally, we analyze structure and efficiency of governance of agro-ecosystems services in Zapadna Stara Planina – a mountainous region in North-West Bulgaria. Post-communist transition and EU integration has brought about significant changes in the state and governance of agro-ecosystems services. Newly evolved market, private and public governance has led to significant improvement of part of agro-ecosystems services introducing modern eco-standards and public support, enhancing environmental stewardship, desintensifying production, recovering landscape and traditional productions, diversifying quality, products, and services. At the same time, novel governance is associated with some new challenges such as unsustainable exploitation, lost biodiversity, land degradation, water and air contamination. What is more, implementation of EU common policies would have no desired impact on agro-ecosystem services unless special measures are taken to improve management of public programs, and extend public support to dominating small-scale and subsistence farms.
2009-05-31
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/15492/1/MPRA_paper_15492.pdf
Bachev, Hrabrin (2009): Governing of Agro-Ecosystem Services.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:16245
2019-10-07T16:26:26Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16245/
Maximin-optimal sustainable growth in a resource-based imperfect economy
Bazhanov, Andrei
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q38 - Government Policy
O47 - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth ; Aggregate Productivity ; Cross-Country Output Convergence
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
I offer an approach linking a welfare criterion to the opportunities for sustainable development in an imperfect economy. The approach implies a dependence of the criterion on the economy's current state. The economy-linked criterion is constructed using an example with the maximin principle applied to a hybrid level-growth measure. This measure includes as special cases the conventional measures of consumption level and percent change as a measure of growth. The hybrid measure or geometrically weighted percent can be used for measuring sustainable growth as an alternative to percent. The problem is considered for the Dasgupta-Heal-Solow-Stiglitz model. Closed form solutions are obtained for the optimal paths including the paths dynamically consistent with the updates in reserve estimates.
2008-10-18
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16245/1/MPRA_paper_16245.pdf
Bazhanov, Andrei (2008): Maximin-optimal sustainable growth in a resource-based imperfect economy.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:16568
2019-09-28T14:56:48Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16568/
Maximin-optimal sustainable growth in a resource-based imperfect economy
Bazhanov, Andrei
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q38 - Government Policy
O47 - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth ; Aggregate Productivity ; Cross-Country Output Convergence
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
I offer an approach linking a welfare criterion to the opportunities for sustainable development in an imperfect economy. The approach implies a dependence of the criterion on the economy's current state. The economy-linked criterion is constructed using an example with the maximin principle applied to a hybrid level-growth measure. This measure includes as special cases the conventional measures of consumption level and percent change as a measure of growth. The hybrid measure or geometrically weighted percent can be used for measuring sustainable growth as an alternative to percent. The problem is considered for the Dasgupta-Heal-Solow-Stiglitz model. Closed form solutions are obtained for the optimal paths including the paths dynamically consistent with the updates in reserve estimates.
2008-10-18
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16568/1/MPRA_paper_16568.pdf
Bazhanov, Andrei (2008): Maximin-optimal sustainable growth in a resource-based imperfect economy.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:16933
2019-10-06T00:48:51Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16933/
Rohstoffbasierte Staatsfonds: Theorie und Empirie
Clemens, Marius
Fuhrmann, Wilfried
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q38 - Government Policy
N5 - Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment, and Extractive Industries
E6 - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
E61 - Policy Objectives ; Policy Designs and Consistency ; Policy Coordination
Because of increasing resource prices and thus, higher export profits, resource abundant countries become more and more constrained in implementing a sustainable resource management which realizes two main objectives: The development of competitive non-oil industries and the reduction of resource caused volatility.
This paper surveys rationales, structures and effects of resource-based Souvereign Wealth Funds as an instrument of optimal resource management. The main objective is to find out if resource funds have some significant impact on macroeconomic stability and development. Therefore, chapter 2 gives a review of different "resource curse" theories to identify macroeconomic core indicators that should be affected by introducing SWFs. The next chapter introduces the theory of resource-based SWF by simulating a general optimal resource management under different scenarios in an infinite horizon model. It shows that resource funds can be an effective instrument to obtain stabilization as well as sustainability objectives. After discussing specific practical topics as different types of funds, the linkage to government budget and the portfolio management, chapter 4 starts with a descriptive analysis about the implementation of resource funds in three different countries: Norway, Russia and Azerbaijan. Other nations and regions were considered by short subsections. In chapter 5 an unbalanced panel data model with 30 countries from 1970-2006 is build to estimate the effects of resource-based SWF´s on resource curse, stabilization and sustainability by means of fixed and random effects estimator. Finally, a short criticism and outlook gives motivation for further research tasks.
2008-06-31
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/16933/1/MPRA_paper_16933.pdf
Clemens, Marius and Fuhrmann, Wilfried (2008): Rohstoffbasierte Staatsfonds: Theorie und Empirie.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:17034
2019-09-27T17:29:43Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17034/
Rohstoffbasierte Staatsfonds: Theorie und Empirie
Clemens, Marius
Fuhrmann, Wilfried
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q38 - Government Policy
N5 - Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment, and Extractive Industries
E6 - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
E61 - Policy Objectives ; Policy Designs and Consistency ; Policy Coordination
Because of increasing resource prices and thus, higher export profits, resource abundant countries become more and more constrained in implementing a sustainable resource management which realizes two main objectives: The development of competitive non-oil industries and the reduction of resource caused volatility.
This paper surveys rationales, structures and effects of resource-based Sovereign Wealth Funds as an instrument of optimal resource management. The main objective is to find out if resource funds have some significant impact on macroeconomic stability and development. Therefore, chapter 2 gives a review of different "resource curse" theories to identify macroeconomic core indicators that should be affected by introducing SWFs. The next chapter introduces the theory of resource-based SWF by simulating a general optimal resource management under different scenarios in an infinite horizon model. It shows that resource funds can be an effective instrument to obtain stabilization as well as sustainability objectives. After discussing specific practical topics as different types of funds, the linkage to government budget and the portfolio management, chapter 4 starts with a descriptive analysis about the implementation of resource funds in three different countries: Norway, Russia and Azerbaijan. Other nations and regions were considered by short subsections. In chapter 5 an unbalanced panel data model with 30 countries from 1970-2006 is build to estimate the effects of resource-based SWF´s on resource curse, stabilization and sustainability by means of fixed and random effects estimator. Finally, a short criticism and outlook gives motivation for further research tasks.
2008-06-31
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17034/1/MPRA_paper_17034.pdf
Clemens, Marius and Fuhrmann, Wilfried (2008): Rohstoffbasierte Staatsfonds: Theorie und Empirie.
de
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:17311
2019-10-10T11:32:25Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17311/
Structural policies for shock-prone developing countries
Collier, Paul
Goderis, Benedikt
Q38 - Government Policy
O47 - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth ; Aggregate Productivity ; Cross-Country Output Convergence
Q54 - Climate ; Natural Disasters and Their Management ; Global Warming
Developing countries frequently face large adverse shocks to their economies. We study two distinct types of such shocks: large declines in the price of a country’s commodity exports and severe natural disasters. Unsurprisingly, adverse shocks reduce the short-term growth of constant-price GDP and we analyse which structural policies help to minimize these losses. Structural policies are incentives and regulations that are maintained for long periods, contrasting with policy responses to shocks, the analysis of which has dominated the literature. We show that some previously neglected structural policies have large effects that are specific to particular types of shock. In particular, regulations which reduce the speed of firm exit substantially increase the short-term growth loss from adverse non-agricultural export price shocks and so are particularly ill-suited to mineral exporting economies.
Natural disasters appear to be better accommodated by labour market policies, perhaps because such shocks directly dislocate the population.
2009-04-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17311/1/MPRA_paper_17311.pdf
Collier, Paul and Goderis, Benedikt (2009): Structural policies for shock-prone developing countries.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:19258
2019-09-29T00:43:37Z
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7375626A656374733D51:5133:513332
7375626A656374733D51:5133:513338
7375626A656374733D4F:4F34:4F3437
7375626A656374733D4F:4F31:4F3133
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/19258/
Maximin-optimal sustainable growth in a resource-based imperfect economy
Bazhanov, Andrei
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q38 - Government Policy
O47 - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth ; Aggregate Productivity ; Cross-Country Output Convergence
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
I offer an approach linking a welfare criterion to the opportunities for sustainable development in an imperfect economy. The approach implies a dependence of the criterion on the economy's current state. The economy-linked criterion is constructed using an example with the maximin principle applied to a hybrid level-growth measure. This measure includes as special cases the conventional measures of consumption level and percent change as a measure of growth. The hybrid measure or geometrically weighted percent can be used for measuring sustainable growth as an alternative to percent. The problem is considered for the Dasgupta-Heal-Solow-Stiglitz model. Closed form solutions are obtained for the optimal paths including the paths dynamically consistent with the updates in reserve estimates.
2008-10-18
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/19258/2/MPRA_paper_19258.pdf
Bazhanov, Andrei (2008): Maximin-optimal sustainable growth in a resource-based imperfect economy.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:22406
2019-09-27T10:55:46Z
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7375626A656374733D51:5133:513332
7375626A656374733D51:5133:513338
7375626A656374733D4F:4F31:4F3133
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/22406/
A closed form solution to Stollery's global warming problem with temperature in utility
Bazhanov, Andrei
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q38 - Government Policy
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
Stollery (1998) studied a polluting oil extracting economy governed by the constant utility criterion. The pollution caused the growth of temperature, negatively affecting production and utility. Stollery provided a closed form solution for the case with the Cobb-Douglas production function and temperature affecting only production. This paper offers a closed form solution to a non-trivial example of this economy with utility affected by temperature.
2010-04-29
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/22406/1/MPRA_paper_22406.pdf
Bazhanov, Andrei (2010): A closed form solution to Stollery's global warming problem with temperature in utility.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:22488
2019-09-26T10:05:40Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D51:5133:513338
7375626A656374733D4C:4C37:4C3732
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/22488/
Chiadzwa Diamonds: Zimbabwe’s potential economic recovery option
Makochekanwa, Albert
Q38 - Government Policy
L72 - Mining, Extraction, and Refining: Other Nonrenewable Resources
The research was motivated by the need for Zimbabwe’s financial assistance to kick-start the recovery of its economy from the meltdown it has been for more than a decade. Since the formation of the government of national unity (GNU) on February 13, 2009, government of Zimbabwe’s (GoZ) begging bowl for US$8.3 billion financial assistance has been extensively preached to both southern African countries and the world over. This study presents a totally different financial avenue, Chiadzwa diamond. Using the two estimated monthly revenue sales of US$1 billion and US$1.2 billion from Chiadzwa diamond, the study argues that the country’s immediate financial requirements of at least US$8.3 billion can be wholly met with proceeds from this mine field only if the new unity government has a political will. Partial projections presented in this paper shows that, once diamond revenue sales are harnessed by the government for the benefit of the whole economy as opposed to the current situation where the few revenues are only benefiting few politicians and their relatives, the country’s GDP can jump from the 2008 level of US$3.2 billion to at least US$16.7 billion starting 2009. The paper also suggested management frameworks that the GoZ can consider implementing in the management of Chiadzwa diamond.
2009-07-15
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/22488/1/MPRA_paper_22488.pdf
Makochekanwa, Albert (2009): Chiadzwa Diamonds: Zimbabwe’s potential economic recovery option.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:22958
2019-10-01T10:26:44Z
7374617475733D756E707562
7375626A656374733D51:5135:513530
7375626A656374733D51:5132:513238
7375626A656374733D51:5132:513234
7375626A656374733D51:5132:513235
7375626A656374733D51:5135:513537
7375626A656374733D51:5131:513138
7375626A656374733D51:5133:513338
7375626A656374733D51:5132:513236
7375626A656374733D51:5133:513334
7375626A656374733D51:5131:513133
7375626A656374733D51:5131:513135
7375626A656374733D51:5135:513538
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/22958/
Eco-governance in Bulgarian Agriculture
Bachev, Hrabrin
Q50 - General
Q28 - Government Policy
Q24 - Land
Q25 - Water
Q57 - Ecological Economics: Ecosystem Services ; Biodiversity Conservation ; Bioeconomics ; Industrial Ecology
Q18 - Agricultural Policy ; Food Policy
Q38 - Government Policy
Q26 - Recreational Aspects of Natural Resources
Q34 - Natural Resources and Domestic and International Conflicts
Q13 - Agricultural Markets and Marketing ; Cooperatives ; Agribusiness
Q15 - Land Ownership and Tenure ; Land Reform ; Land Use ; Irrigation ; Agriculture and Environment
Q58 - Government Policy
This paper presents the evolution of diverse modes of environmental management in Bulgarian agriculture, and assesses their efficiency and likely prospects of development. First, it analyzes the pace of development and the impact(s) on individual behavior of the major modes of environmental governance - institutional environment (distribution and enforcement of property, user, trading etc. rights and rules); private and collective modes (diverse private initiatives, and contractual and organizational arrangements); market modes (various decentralized initiatives governed by “free” market price movements and market competition); public modes (different forms of Government, community, international etc. intervention). Second, it assesses the impact(s) of dominating system of governance on the state of environment and identifies major eco-challenges, conflicts and risks – increased competition for natural resources, degradation and contamination of farmland, pollution of surface and ground waters, loss of biodiversity, deterioration of (agro)eco-systems services etc. Third, it projects likely evolution of environmental management in the specific “Bulgarian” economic, institutional and natural environment, and estimates its probable effect on environmental security, and suggests recommendations for institutional modernization and public policies improvement.
2010-05-26
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/22958/1/MPRA_paper_22958.pdf
Bachev, Hrabrin (2010): Eco-governance in Bulgarian Agriculture.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:23011
2019-09-27T16:42:48Z
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7375626A656374733D48:4837:483737
7375626A656374733D51:5132:513238
7375626A656374733D44:4437:443738
7375626A656374733D52:5235:523539
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/23011/
Cities in Germany and their climate commitments: More hype than substance?
Sippel, Maike
Q38 - Government Policy
H77 - Intergovernmental Relations ; Federalism ; Secession
Q28 - Government Policy
D78 - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
R59 - Other
While nation states debate climate policy at an international scale, on a local level, cities across the globe have committed to emission targets and mitigation activities. This study analyses the actual performance of municipal climate action against their targets. Official information material from large cities in Germany was collected and complemented with questionnaires from officials in 40 municipalities.
While 77% of cities have adopted emission targets in a voluntary act, and 80% of these cities are engaged in at least basic emission reporting, only a quarter of them are on course to reach their targets. All of these ‘successful’ cities are situated in Eastern Germany – and their emission reductions can mainly be explained by the industrial decline in the 1990s after the German Reunification. Not a single city in Western Germany is on course to reach its reduction commitment. Cities average mitigation performance is slightly worse than the German average, and the effect of city networks on cities is not very clear. It can be concluded that cities are currently not living up to their ambitions. The practice of urban emission reporting does in many cases not allow for proper quality management of greenhouse gas policies.
For a more meaningful contribution to the battle against climate change, cities could follow a double strategy: Firstly they could report emissions regularly and adopt realistic and city-specific targets and action plans based on their emission patterns. Secondly, they could complement their targets with a visionary approach: This would include pilot projects that demonstrate how low carbon cities could look like, as well as a more ambitious target which they would be able to reach – provided that optimal framework conditions for local mitigation activities would be put in place by other policy levels.
2010-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/23011/1/MPRA_paper_23011.pdf
Sippel, Maike (2010): Cities in Germany and their climate commitments: More hype than substance?
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:23299
2019-09-29T04:33:10Z
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74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/23299/
Sustainable growth in a resource-based economy: the extraction-saving relationship
Bazhanov, Andrei
Q38 - Government Policy
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
O47 - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth ; Aggregate Productivity ; Cross-Country Output Convergence
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
The paper presents two new results for the Dasgupta-Heal-Solow-Stiglitz model with an essential nonrenewable resource:
(1) the pattern of resource extraction can be more important for sustainable growth than the pattern of saving when the Hotelling rule modifier is not small enough;
(2) the qualitative behavior of the long-run per capita output can be examined along any smooth enough path of extraction for any variable saving rate using the "index of sustainable extraction" introduced in the paper.
2008-12-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/23299/2/MPRA_paper_23299.pdf
Bazhanov, Andrei (2008): Sustainable growth in a resource-based economy: the extraction-saving relationship.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:24535
2019-10-02T19:59:32Z
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7375626A656374733D51:5131:513135
7375626A656374733D51:5135:513538
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/24535/
Agricultural water management in Bulgaria
Bachev, Hrabrin
Q28 - Government Policy
Q01 - Sustainable Development
Q25 - Water
Q18 - Agricultural Policy ; Food Policy
Q38 - Government Policy
Q53 - Air Pollution ; Water Pollution ; Noise ; Hazardous Waste ; Solid Waste ; Recycling
Q15 - Land Ownership and Tenure ; Land Reform ; Land Use ; Irrigation ; Agriculture and Environment
Q58 - Government Policy
This paper analyzes evolution and efficiency of water governance in Bulgarian agriculture during post-communist transition and EU integration. First, it defines the water governance and the scope of analysis. Next, it presents the process of transformation of agricultural water governance embracing all mechanisms and modes – institutional environment, market, private, public, and hybrid. Third, it assesses impacts of newly evolved system of governance on efficiency and sustainability. Finally, it suggests recommendations for improvement of public policies.
2010-08-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/24535/1/MPRA_paper_24535.pdf
Bachev, Hrabrin (2010): Agricultural water management in Bulgaria.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:25978
2019-09-26T13:21:51Z
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74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/25978/
Agro-Ecosystem Services – Governance Needs and Efficiency
Bachev, Hrabrin
D86 - Economics of Contract: Theory
Q28 - Government Policy
Q57 - Ecological Economics: Ecosystem Services ; Biodiversity Conservation ; Bioeconomics ; Industrial Ecology
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
Q38 - Government Policy
Q26 - Recreational Aspects of Natural Resources
Q13 - Agricultural Markets and Marketing ; Cooperatives ; Agribusiness
Q15 - Land Ownership and Tenure ; Land Reform ; Land Use ; Irrigation ; Agriculture and Environment
Q20 - General
D73 - Bureaucracy ; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations ; Corruption
D21 - Firm Behavior: Theory
D02 - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
Q24 - Land
Q01 - Sustainable Development
Q12 - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
Q25 - Water
Q18 - Agricultural Policy ; Food Policy
D23 - Organizational Behavior ; Transaction Costs ; Property Rights
D03 - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
D74 - Conflict ; Conflict Resolution ; Alliances ; Revolutions
Q34 - Natural Resources and Domestic and International Conflicts
Q56 - Environment and Development ; Environment and Trade ; Sustainability ; Environmental Accounts and Accounting ; Environmental Equity ; Population Growth
Q27 - Issues in International Trade
Q58 - Government Policy
This paper incorporates the interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics and suggests a holistic framework for analysis of management agro-ecosystem services. That new approach for analyses and assessment of management of agro-ecosystem services includes: definition of the agro-ecosystem services and the governance; specification of governance needs of agro-ecosystem services and the spectrum of available governing modes (formal and informal institutions, market, private, public and hybrid forms); assessment of efficiency of different modes of governance in terms of their potential to protect diverse eco-rights and investments, assure a socially desirable level of agro-ecosystem services, minimize overall costs, coordinate and stimulate eco-activities, meet individual and social preferences and reconcile conflicts of related agents etc.
2010-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/25978/1/MPRA_paper_25978.pdf
Bachev, Hrabrin (2010): Agro-Ecosystem Services – Governance Needs and Efficiency.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:26793
2019-09-26T18:45:09Z
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7375626A656374733D51:5133:513338
7375626A656374733D51:5134:513431
7375626A656374733D51:5133:513334
7375626A656374733D51:5133:513331
7375626A656374733D51:5134:513438
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/26793/
Bypassing Russia: Nabucco project and its implications for the European gas security
Erdogdu, Erkan
Q38 - Government Policy
Q41 - Demand and Supply ; Prices
Q34 - Natural Resources and Domestic and International Conflicts
Q31 - Demand and Supply ; Prices
Q48 - Government Policy
Restrictions on CO2 emissions, the nuclear phase out announced by some member states, high emissions from coal-fired power plants, and barriers to rapid development of renewable generation are factors that make the European Union (EU) highly dependent on natural gas. With three non-EU countries (Russia, Algeria and Norway) currently supplying more than half the gas consumed within the EU and with projections pointing out that by 2030 internal sources will only be able to meet 25% of demand, EU desperately looks for means to secure new sources of gas supply. In this context, the Nabucco pipeline is planned to deliver gas from Caspian and Middle East regions to EU market. It runs across Turkey and then through Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary before connecting with a major gas hub in Austria. On paper, Nabucco project makes perfect sense, offering a new export route to EU markets for Caspian gas producers (Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan) as well as Iran and, in time, Iraq. The project is backed by the EU and strongly supported by the United States. Perhaps most importantly, Nabucco would completely bypass Russia. This paper addresses issues surrounding Nabucco project and their implications for European gas security.
2010-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/26793/1/MPRA_paper_26793.pdf
Erdogdu, Erkan (2010): Bypassing Russia: Nabucco project and its implications for the European gas security. Published in: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews , Vol. 14, No. 9 (December 2010): pp. 2936-2945.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:27619
2019-09-28T11:07:42Z
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7375626A656374733D51:5133:513332
7375626A656374733D51:5133:513338
7375626A656374733D4F:4F34:4F3437
7375626A656374733D4F:4F31:4F3133
74797065733D7061706572
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/27619/
Constant-utility paths in a resource-based economy
Bazhanov, Andrei
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q38 - Government Policy
O47 - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth ; Aggregate Productivity ; Cross-Country Output Convergence
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
This paper analyzes a social planner's solution in a resource-based economy under a constant-utility criterion. The utility function includes social progress in a multiplicative form. The resulting paths of consumption include the patterns of growth that are conventionally used in the literature. This approach extends conventional link between the utilitarian criterion and the maximin for the cases with finite elasticity of marginal utility. The closed form solutions, derived for the Dasgupta-Heal-Solow-Stiglitz (DHSS) model, include the result of Solow (1974) and Hartwick (1977) as a specific case. The approach is applied to an example of a distorted resource-extracting economy under the requirement for smoothness of the paths with respect to historical data.
2010-08-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/27619/1/MPRA_paper_27619.pdf
Bazhanov, Andrei (2010): Constant-utility paths in a resource-based economy.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:27812
2019-10-01T10:38:36Z
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7375626A656374733D51:5132:513238
7375626A656374733D5A:5A31:5A3133
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7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/27812/
Living Better in a Better World: An Ecosystemic Approach for Development, Sustainability and Quality of Life
Pilon, André Francisco
Q28 - Government Policy
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
O21 - Planning Models ; Planning Policy
P16 - Political Economy
K32 - Environmental, Health, and Safety Law
Q38 - Government Policy
H75 - State and Local Government: Health ; Education ; Welfare ; Public Pensions
Q56 - Environment and Development ; Environment and Trade ; Sustainability ; Environmental Accounts and Accounting ; Environmental Equity ; Population Growth
I00 - General
Q58 - Government Policy
Quality of life, natural and man-made environments, physical, social and mental well-being are currently undermined by all sorts of hazards and injuries; political, economical, social and cultural disarray normalise atrocious behaviours and violence throughout the world, in a context of dehumanisation, depersonalisation and reification. A theoretical and practical multidimensional ecosystemic approach and planning model is posited, intertwining, as donors and recipients, four dimensions of being-in-the-world: intimate, interactive, social and biophysical. Events are not reduced to fragmented representations of reality, but considered as configurations, resulting from a dynamic field, expressing the connections and ruptures between the different dimensions. Instead of being directed to the bubbles of the surface (reduced, taken for granted problems), projects of change contemplate the dynamic configurations formed by the intersection of the different dimensions "inside the boiling pot”.
2011-01-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/27812/1/MPRA_paper_27812.pdf
Pilon, André Francisco (2011): Living Better in a Better World: An Ecosystemic Approach for Development, Sustainability and Quality of Life.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:28790
2019-10-17T06:55:57Z
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7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/28790/
Living better in a better world: An ecosystemic approach for development, sustainability and quality of Life
Pilon, André Francisco
Q28 - Government Policy
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
O21 - Planning Models ; Planning Policy
P16 - Political Economy
K32 - Environmental, Health, and Safety Law
Q38 - Government Policy
H75 - State and Local Government: Health ; Education ; Welfare ; Public Pensions
Q56 - Environment and Development ; Environment and Trade ; Sustainability ; Environmental Accounts and Accounting ; Environmental Equity ; Population Growth
I00 - General
Q58 - Government Policy
Quality of life, natural and man-made environments, physical, social and mental well-being are currently undermined by all sorts of hazards and injuries; political, economical, social and cultural disarray normalise atrocious behaviours and violence throughout the world, in a context of dehumanisation, depersonalisation and reification. A theoretical and practical multidimensional ecosystemic approach and planning model is posited, intertwining, as donors and recipients, four dimensions of being-in-the-world: intimate, interactive, social and biophysical. Events are not reduced to fragmented representations of reality, but considered as configurations, resulting from a dynamic field, expressing the connections and ruptures between the different dimensions. Instead of being directed to the bubbles of the surface (reduced, taken for granted problems), projects of change contemplate the dynamic configurations formed by the intersection of the different dimensions "inside the boiling pot”.
2011-01-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/28790/2/MPRA_paper_28790.pdf
Pilon, André Francisco (2011): Living better in a better world: An ecosystemic approach for development, sustainability and quality of Life.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:30146
2019-10-03T17:26:35Z
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7375626A656374733D49:4930:493030
7375626A656374733D51:5135:513538
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/30146/
Living Better in a Better World: An Ecosystemic Approach for Institutional, Cultural and Educational Development and Change
Pilon, André Francisco
Q28 - Government Policy
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
O21 - Planning Models ; Planning Policy
P16 - Political Economy
K32 - Environmental, Health, and Safety Law
Q38 - Government Policy
H75 - State and Local Government: Health ; Education ; Welfare ; Public Pensions
Q56 - Environment and Development ; Environment and Trade ; Sustainability ; Environmental Accounts and Accounting ; Environmental Equity ; Population Growth
I00 - General
Q58 - Government Policy
Quality of life, natural and man-made environments, physical, social and mental well-being are currently undermined by all sorts of hazards and injuries; political, economical, social and cultural disarray normalise atrocious behaviours and violence throughout the world, in a context of dehumanisation, depersonalisation and reification. A theoretical and practical multidimensional ecosystemic approach and planning model is posited, intertwining, as donors and recipients, four dimensions of being-in-the-world: intimate, interactive, social and biophysical. Events are not reduced to fragmented representations of reality, but considered as configurations, resulting from a dynamic field, expressing the connections and ruptures between the different dimensions. Instead of being directed to the bubbles of the surface (reduced, taken for granted problems), projects of change contemplate the dynamic configurations formed by the intersection of the different dimensions "inside the boiling pot”.
2011-01-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/30146/1/MPRA_paper_30146.pdf
Pilon, André Francisco (2011): Living Better in a Better World: An Ecosystemic Approach for Institutional, Cultural and Educational Development and Change.
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Economics and Theoretical Physics
Punabantu, Siize
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q38 - Government Policy
B40 - General
A20 - General
Q42 - Alternative Energy Sources
Q40 - General
C70 - General
A10 - General
The recent earthquake in Japan and its impact on the Fukushima nuclear power plant is a tragic reminder of humanity’s ever growing dependence on energy for its socioeconomic development. Energy plays a central role in determining the effectiveness of economics. However, are the fundamental difficulties associated with understanding the true nature of energy impeding development? This paper is a reflection on theoretical physics from an economic vantage point. As difficult as it may seem to band them together as this article will attempt to do, physics and economics are conjoined. Space, Time , Matter and Energy all play a significant role in the capacity of economics to better provide for humanity. For example, energy; its, provision, evolution and consumption play a significant role in the capacity of economics to develop strategies with which to satisfactorily manage human development. The impact the price of oil has on the global economy is testimony to the impact the cost of energy has on economies and governments in general. If global incomes could rise or the cost of energy could fall this could significantly increase its affordability. Therefore, advances in physics and the natural sciences in general can have a positive impact on economics.
2011-07-26
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/32050/1/MPRA_paper_32050.pdf
Punabantu, Siize (2011): Economics and Theoretical Physics.
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Investment and resource policy under a modified Hotelling rule
Bazhanov, Andrei
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q38 - Government Policy
O43 - Institutions and Growth
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
An extensive literature shows the importance of investment policy for sustainability of resource-based economies. The approaches of these studies are mostly based on theoretical results that examine the role of investments in a competitive optimizing economy. This paper extends some of these results by considering the dependence of current consumption change on investment under distortions causing modification of the standard Hotelling rule (HR). This extension implies that resource policy in the presence of the distortions can be more important for sustainability than under the standard HR. The examples of the analysis for distorted resource-based economies are provided.
2011-07-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/32428/1/MPRA_paper_32428.pdf
Bazhanov, Andrei (2011): Investment and resource policy under a modified Hotelling rule.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:32477
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Economics and Theoretical Physics
Punabantu, Siize
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
A20 - General
Q42 - Alternative Energy Sources
Q47 - Energy Forecasting
A11 - Role of Economics ; Role of Economists ; Market for Economists
Q38 - Government Policy
Q40 - General
B41 - Economic Methodology
The recent earthquake in Japan and its impact on the Fukushima nuclear power plant is a tragic reminder of humanity’s ever growing dependence on energy for its socioeconomic development. Energy plays a central role in determining the effectiveness of economics. However, are the fundamental difficulties associated with understanding the true nature of energy impeding development? This paper is a reflection on theoretical physics from an economic vantage point. As difficult as it may seem to band them together as this article will attempt to do, physics and economics are conjoined. Space, Time , Matter and Energy all play a significant role in the capacity of economics to better provide for humanity. For example, energy; its, provision, evolution and consumption play a significant role in the capacity of economics to develop strategies with which to satisfactorily manage human development. The impact the price of oil has on the global economy is testimony to the impact the cost of energy has on economies and governments in general. If global incomes could rise or the cost of energy could fall this could significantly increase its affordability. Therefore, advances in physics and the natural sciences in general can have a positive impact on economics.
2011-07-29
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/32477/1/MPRA_paper_32477.pdf
Punabantu, Siize (2011): Economics and Theoretical Physics.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:34656
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Investment and resource policy under a modified Hotelling rule
Bazhanov, Andrei
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q38 - Government Policy
O47 - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth ; Aggregate Productivity ; Cross-Country Output Convergence
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
An extensive literature shows the importance of investment policy for sustainability of resource-based economies by examining the role of investment in current utility change (CUC) for a competitive optimizing economy. This paper extends some of these results by analysing the dependence of CUC on genuine investment, expressed in marginal resource productivity, under dynamic inefficiency. This inefficiency arises when a social planner, due to imperfection in knowledge or in institutions, does not take into account deviations of real economy from a theoretical model. These deviations or distortions, connected with the resource extraction, can influence utility, production, the balance equation, and the dynamics of the reserve, modifying the standard Hotelling rule. The analysis of this natural discrepancy between theory and real life implies that: first, institutional and resource policies in inefficient economies may be more important for CUC than investment policy; and secondly, under uncertainties in production possibilities and in damages from economic activities, sustainability requires a more cautious resource policy than is advised by a theory.
2011-07-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/34656/3/MPRA_paper_34656.pdf
Bazhanov, Andrei (2011): Investment and resource policy under a modified Hotelling rule.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:35487
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Investment and current utility change in dynamically inefficient economies
Bazhanov, Andrei
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q38 - Government Policy
O47 - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth ; Aggregate Productivity ; Cross-Country Output Convergence
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
An extensive literature shows the importance of investment policy for sustainability of resource-based economies
by examining the role of investment in current utility change (CUC) for a competitive optimizing economy.
This paper extends some of these results by analysing the dependence of CUC on genuine investment (GI),
expressed in marginal resource productivity, under dynamic inefficiency.
The inefficiency arises when a social planner, due to imperfection in knowledge or in institutions,
does not take into account deviations of real economy from a theoretical model.
These deviations or distortions, connected with the resource extraction, can influence utility, production,
the balance equation, and the dynamics of the reserve. The analysis of this natural discrepancy between theory and real life
implies that: first, institutional and resource policies in inefficient economies may be more important for CUC
than investment policy; and secondly, under uncertainties in production possibilities and in damages from economic activities,
sustainability requires a more cautious resource policy than is advised by a theory.
The paper also suggests that the indicators GI, expressed in accounting prices and in marginal resource productivity,
can complement each other in sustainability evaluation.
2011-12-15
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/35487/1/MPRA_paper_35487.pdf
Bazhanov, Andrei (2011): Investment and current utility change in dynamically inefficient economies.
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Buying Anonymity: An Investigation of Petroleum and Natural Gas Lease Auctions
Winter, Jennifer L.
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q38 - Government Policy
D44 - Auctions
This paper examines how concealing the existence of private information affects winning bids in a large, well-functioning auction environment. Standard auction theory suggests firms should wish to advertise the existence of private information in order to reduce the bids of their competitors (Milgrom and Weber, 1982). There are a limited number of empirical studies on how concealing the existence of private information affects bids. Instead, most articles test for the presence of private information, rather than the effect of revealing or concealing its existence.
An institutional feature of the auctions for petroleum and natural gas leases in Alberta is that firms can hire a broker to bid on their behalf, thereby hiding their identity. Anecdotal evidence suggests rms use brokers to conceal information from their competitors. In order to
test the predictions of standard theory, I develop a model of bidding behaviour incorporating the choice to use a broker. The model provides an explicit relationship between broker usage, firms' private information, and equilibrium bids. Using a newly constructed dataset, I estimate
this relationship. I find results consistent with standard theory: bids are higher when brokers are used to hide the existence of some private information.
2010-12
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/35560/1/MPRA_paper_35560.pdf
Winter, Jennifer L. (2010): Buying Anonymity: An Investigation of Petroleum and Natural Gas Lease Auctions.
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Assessing environmental management in agriculture
Bachev, Hrabrin
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
Q28 - Government Policy
Q24 - Land
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
Q12 - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
Q25 - Water
Q18 - Agricultural Policy ; Food Policy
Q38 - Government Policy
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
O17 - Formal and Informal Sectors ; Shadow Economy ; Institutional Arrangements
Q13 - Agricultural Markets and Marketing ; Cooperatives ; Agribusiness
Q15 - Land Ownership and Tenure ; Land Reform ; Land Use ; Irrigation ; Agriculture and Environment
This paper incorporates interdisciplinary New Institutional Economics and suggests a holistic framework for assessing the forms and efficiency of environmental management in agriculture. First, it defines environmental management as a specific system of social order regulating behaviour and relations of various agents related to natural environment, and environmental management in agriculture as eco-management associated with agricultural production. Second, it specifies spectrum of modes and mechanisms of eco-management comprising: institutional environment, market, private, collective, public and hybrid. Third, it suggests stages in analysis and improvement of environmental management in agriculture including: identification of problems, and risks associated with natural environment; assessment of efficiency of available and feasible modes, and specifying cases of market, private, and public failures; assessment of comparative efficiency of alternative modes for new public intervention and selection of the most efficient one(s). Forth, it classifies personal, institutional, technological, natural, and transaction costs factors of management choice. Finally, it builds a principle governance matrix with the most effective market, private, and public modes taking into account the critical dimensions of eco-activity and transactions (appropriability, assets specificity, uncertainty and frequency), and their potential to coordinate and stimulate eco-activities, meet preferences and reconcile conflicts of individuals, protect eco-rights and investments, overcome uncertainty and risk, assure socially desirable level of environmental protection, and minimize overall (implementing, third-party and transacting) costs.
2012-01-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/35802/1/MPRA_paper_35802.pdf
Bachev, Hrabrin (2012): Assessing environmental management in agriculture.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:35870
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The dependence of the potential sustainability of a resource economy on the initial state: a comparison of models using the example of Russian oil extraction
Bazhanov, Andrei
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q38 - Government Policy
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
The studies of the International Monetary Fund offer a model for recommending sustainable budget policy to oil-exporting countries including Russia. The model does not contain any resource as a factor of production and assumes that Russian oil reserves will be exhausted by the middle of the 21st century. The current paper examines the sustainability of open and closed models, which are calibrated on Russia's data and include a resource as a factor of production. The open-model case shows that monotonic economic growth is impossible given the current state of the Russian economy. This paper offers an approach for estimating changes that improve long-term sustainability.
2011-12-15
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/35870/1/MPRA_paper_35870.pdf
Bazhanov, Andrei (2011): The dependence of the potential sustainability of a resource economy on the initial state: a comparison of models using the example of Russian oil extraction. Published in: The Journal of the New Economic Association No. 12 (20 December 2011): pp. 1-20.
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Зависимость долгосрочного роста ресурсной экономики от начального состояния: сравнение моделей на примере российской нефтедобычи
Bazhanov, Andrei
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q38 - Government Policy
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
The studies of the International Monetary Fund offer a model for recommending sustainable budget policy to oil-exporting countries including Russia. The model does not contain any resource as a factor of production and assumes that Russian oil reserves will be exhausted by the middle of the 21st century. The current paper examines the sustainability of open and closed models, which are calibrated on Russia's data and include a resource as a factor of production. The open-model case shows that monotonic economic growth is impossible given the current state of the Russian economy. This paper offers an approach for estimating changes that improve long-term sustainability.
2011-12-15
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/35888/1/MPRA_paper_35888.pdf
Bazhanov, Andrei (2011): Зависимость долгосрочного роста ресурсной экономики от начального состояния: сравнение моделей на примере российской нефтедобычи. Published in: The Journal of the New Economic Association No. 12 (20 December 2011): pp. 77-100.
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Economic Instruments For Improved Water Resources Management In Egypt
McCauley, David
Anderson, Robert
Bowen, Richard
Elassiouty, Ibrahim
Mahdy, Elsayed
Soliman, Ibrahim
Q18 - Agricultural Policy ; Food Policy
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q34 - Natural Resources and Domestic and International Conflicts
Q38 - Government Policy
Q5 - Environmental Economics
Q53 - Air Pollution ; Water Pollution ; Noise ; Hazardous Waste ; Solid Waste ; Recycling
Egypt seems to be on the brink of a new era in water management. The country suppose to follow a different operational mode that is “water conservation oriented, decentralized, environmentally sensitive, private sector oriented, equitable and operationally efficient” The focus of this study was on market-based instruments (MBI’s) as complements to traditional command and control measures for managing water quantity and quality. Prior to evaluating potential water MBIs, it was necessary to identify the water management problems and challenges that need to be addressed through policy adjustments.
These challenges were threat of water shortages, service delivery in municipal water supply, lake Nasser pollution, Irrigation service delivery challenges, Nile River pollution above Cairo, Insufficient irrigation system upkeep, water pollution in the Nile Delta, Pollution of lakes , low user contribution to irrigation system upkeep, groundwater contamination, and Weak attention to in-stream flows.
Such challenges have impacts on: (1) Nonrenewable groundwater management, (2) Adverse effects on human health, (3) Subsidies affecting water use efficiency, (4) Reduced agricultural productivity, (5) Rainfall capture and flash flood protection. The impacts generated some Threats to aquatic ecosystems, particularly, Negative consequences of rising water tables and Negative impacts on aesthetics (incl. tourism)
A two-step screening process was developed and utilized to evaluate the likely success of alternative market-based policy instruments in response to one or more of water management challenges. The instruments were screened based on economic efficiency and equity and other economic factors relating to the nature of the instrument itself. They also were evaluated based on criteria that considered the specific social, cultural, political, and institutional context in which the instrument will be applied.
Thereon, the study explored the applicability of economic instruments to help address Egypt’s current water management challenges. It resulted in an initial evaluation of twenty instruments that seemed most promising. Screening criteria were developed and applied to assess the merits of each, and direction also was received from nearly 60 participants who attended the study’s concluding Workshop on Economic Incentives for Water. The most promising policy instruments that concluded from the study were:
Woith respect to the water quantity management deemed of highest priority for follow-up analysis and possible policy action were: Groundwater Extraction Charges, Tariff Reductions for Imported Water Meters and Water Conserving Equipment, Several other measures were identified as warranting careful further analysis. These include area-based irrigation service charges; volumetric water delivery charges for large agricultural enterprises; and increased user fees for the supply of urban and industrial water services.
Likewise, the most promising policy measures identified to address water quality
problems were: Increased User Fees for Wastewater Treatment, Increased Subsidies to Finance Wastewater Treatment Facilities, Subsidized Rural Sanitation, and Subsidized Pollution Control Equipment
To achieve such model four approaches to positive change have been identified. These include Creating incentives and disincentives for water management to protect its quality. In addition to Institutionalizing the role private participation; environmental protection and identifying mechanisms to ensure appropriate benefits for participating private sector partners, decentralizing decision making, institutionalizing environmental protection, changing the role of government and improving personnel policies at macro-level decision making regarding uses of the Nile River, and improving awareness of water resources and associated environmental issues.
2002-04-30
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/40581/1/MPRA_paper_40569.pdf
McCauley, David and Anderson, Robert and Bowen, Richard and Elassiouty, Ibrahim and Mahdy, Elsayed and Soliman, Ibrahim (2002): Economic Instruments For Improved Water Resources Management In Egypt. Published in: Final Report of the Research Project (UNDER Water Policy Program, USAID, Cairo , Vol. 1, No. USAID-Cairo, Research Report No. PCE-I-00-96-00002-00 (30 April 2002): pp. 1-173.
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Disregarded inefficiency may dominate sustainability policies
Bazhanov, Andrei
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q38 - Government Policy
O47 - Empirical Studies of Economic Growth ; Aggregate Productivity ; Cross-Country Output Convergence
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
This paper examines the effects of ignored inefficiencies on the reliability of sustainability indicators and effectiveness of investment in resource-based economies. A model of a social planner does not include some phenomena that may influence the path of utility. These unspecified phenomena may cause inefficiency of the economy. In order to simulate this natural discrepancy between theory and real life, this study assumes that the planner applies the policies developed for an efficient (undistorted) model, whereas the real economy is distorted by some neglected effects that can influence utility, production, the balance equation, and the dynamics of the reserve. The resulting inefficiency affects the dependence of current utility change on investment. The analysis shows that, for sustainability in the presence of inefficiency, first, institutional and resource policies may become more important than investments; and secondly, it is preferable to underextract a natural resource under uncertainties in production possibilities and damages from economic activities. An inadequate accounting system, underestimated production possibilities, and insecure property rights are considered as examples of disregarded inefficiencies.
2012-10-08
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/43621/1/MPRA_paper_43621.pdf
Bazhanov, Andrei (2012): Disregarded inefficiency may dominate sustainability policies.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:43750
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Analysis on Conflicts of China’s Coal Tax Reform
Wang, Dong
Q38 - Government Policy
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
H20 - General
Q48 - Government Policy
This paper investigates the conflicts which are resulted from coal tax reform in China from economic and public policy perspectives. An analytical framework involving actors, values, interests and institution has been applied. China’s central government eagers to achieve fiscal revenue increase, environmental protection and energy conversation goals by a good governance of coal system. As a traditional and feasible policy instrument, taxation is regarded for dealing with energy issues in politics and governance. However, coal tax reform proposal has induced many controversies in China. The causes of that include value conflicts of all actors, competing interests of all parties and institutional barriers of economic, politics and legislation. Therefore, the government cannot regulate coal issues only through taxation. The case reveals that good governance on coal cannot be achieved only by economic tools as the coal system contains so high stake and involves so many players.
2012-10-23
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/43750/1/MPRA_paper_43750.pdf
Wang, Dong (2012): Analysis on Conflicts of China’s Coal Tax Reform.
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Natural resources conservation management and strategies in agriculture
Bachev, Hrabrin
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
O17 - Formal and Informal Sectors ; Shadow Economy ; Institutional Arrangements
O18 - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis ; Housing ; Infrastructure
Q12 - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
Q13 - Agricultural Markets and Marketing ; Cooperatives ; Agribusiness
Q15 - Land Ownership and Tenure ; Land Reform ; Land Use ; Irrigation ; Agriculture and Environment
Q18 - Agricultural Policy ; Food Policy
Q24 - Land
Q25 - Water
Q28 - Government Policy
Q38 - Government Policy
Q5 - Environmental Economics
Q50 - General
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
This paper suggests a holistic framework for assessment and improvement of management strategies for conservation of natural resources in agriculture. First, it incorporates an interdisciplinary approach (combining Economics, Organization, Law, Sociology, Ecology, Technology, Behavioral and Political Sciences) and presents a modern framework for assessing environmental management and strategies in agriculture including: specification of specific “managerial needs” and spectrum of feasible governance modes (institutional environment; private, collective, market, and public modes) of natural resources conservation at different level of decision-making (individual, farm, eco-system, local, regional, national, transnational, and global); specification of critical socio-economic, natural, technological, behavioral etc. factors of managerial choice, and feasible spectrum of (private, collective, public, international) managerial strategies; assessment of efficiency of diverse management strategies in terms of their potential to protect diverse eco-rights and investments, assure socially desirable level of environmental protection and improvement, minimize overall (implementing, third-party, transaction etc.) costs, coordinate and stimulate eco-activities, meet preferences and reconcile conflicts of individuals etc. Second, it presents evolution and assesses the efficiency of diverse management forms and strategies for conservation of natural resources in Bulgarian agriculture during post-communist transformation and EU integration (institutional, market, private, and public), and evaluates the impacts of EU CAP on environmental sustainability of farms of different juridical type, size, specialization and location. Finally, it suggests recommendations for improvement of public policies, strategies and modes of intervention, and private and collective strategies and actions for effective environmental protection.
2013-04-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/46368/1/MPRA_paper_46368.pdf
Bachev, Hrabrin (2013): Natural resources conservation management and strategies in agriculture.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:46957
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Hydrocarbon liquefaction: viability as a peak oil mitigation strategy
Höök, Mikael
Fantazzini, Dean
Angelantoni, André
Snowden, Simon
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q38 - Government Policy
Q42 - Alternative Energy Sources
Q48 - Government Policy
Current world capacity of hydrocarbon liquefaction is around 400,000 barrels per day (kb/d), providing a marginal share of the global liquid fuel supply. This study performs a broad review of technical, economic, environmental, and supply chains issues related to coal-to-liquids (CTL) and gas-to-liquids (GTL). We find three issues predominate. First, significant amounts of coal and gas would be required to obtain anything more than a marginal production of liquids. Second, the economics of CTL plants are clearly prohibitive, but are better for GTL. Nevertheless, large scale GTL plants still require very high upfront costs, and for three real world GTL plants out of four, the final cost has been so far approximately three times that initially budgeted. Small scale GTL holds potential for associated gas. Third, CTL and GTL both incur significant environmental impacts, ranging from increased greenhouse gas emissions (in the case of CTL) to water contamination. Environmental concerns may significantly affect growth of these projects until adequate solutions are found.
2013
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/46957/1/MPRA_paper_46957.pdf
Höök, Mikael and Fantazzini, Dean and Angelantoni, André and Snowden, Simon (2013): Hydrocarbon liquefaction: viability as a peak oil mitigation strategy. Forthcoming in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society: A
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2019-09-29T21:02:50Z
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Deforestation Impact on the Household Sustainable Local Development: Nicaragua case, 1998-2005.
Zuniga Gonzalez, Carlos Alberto
C5 - Econometric Modeling
Q3 - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q34 - Natural Resources and Domestic and International Conflicts
Q38 - Government Policy
he paper analyzes the deforestation problem and its Sustainable Local Development (SLD) impact, during 1998-2005 periods. A stochastic frontier production function is defined for panel data of farm-specific variables. The inefficiency effects are assumed to be independently distributed as truncations of normal distributions with constant variance, but with means which are a linear function of observable variables. Panel Data was chosen between social and environment variable of the data base of EMNV’98-05. The results proof that the deforestation problem is explicated by household social expenditure and the poverty. The mean technical efficiency was 25 %, and the poverty reach significant level for explaining technical inefficiency on the stochastic frontier model. The technical efficiency by year was 33 %, 36 % y 5.6 during 1998, 2001 y 2005 respectively. With these considerations, I suggest an educational and specialization process lying on the environment policy for reducing the farmer’s problem effects.
2010-11-11
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/49353/1/MPRA_paper_49353.pdf
Zuniga Gonzalez, Carlos Alberto (2010): Deforestation Impact on the Household Sustainable Local Development: Nicaragua case, 1998-2005. Published in: Encuentro , Vol. 88, (6 January 2011): pp. 101-119.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:51815
2019-10-04T11:36:47Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/51815/
Inefficiency and Sustainability
Bazhanov, Andrei
Q28 - Government Policy
Q38 - Government Policy
Q56 - Environment and Development ; Environment and Trade ; Sustainability ; Environmental Accounts and Accounting ; Environmental Equity ; Population Growth
This paper examines the effects of ignored inefficiencies on the reliability of sustainability indicators and effectiveness of investment in resource-based economies. A model of a social planner does not include some phenomena that may influence the path of utility. These unspecified phenomena may cause inefficiency of the economy. In order to simulate this natural discrepancy between theory and real life, this study assumes that the planner applies the policies developed for an efficient (undistorted) model, whereas the real economy is distorted by some neglected effects that can influence utility, production, the balance equation, and the dynamics of the natural reserve. The resulting inefficiency affects the dependence of current utility change on investment. The analysis shows that, for sustainability in the presence of inefficiency, first, changes in institutions and in the patterns of resource extraction may become more important than investments; and secondly, it is preferable to underextract a natural resource under uncertainties in production possibilities and damages from economic activities. An inadequate accounting system, misestimated production possibilities, and insecure property rights are considered as examples of disregarded inefficiencies.
2013-11-30
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/51815/1/MPRA_paper_51815.pdf
Bazhanov, Andrei (2013): Inefficiency and Sustainability.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:53563
2019-10-12T16:50:40Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/53563/
Resource Curse, Institutions and Non-Resource Sector
Libman, Alexander
D73 - Bureaucracy ; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations ; Corruption
Q38 - Government Policy
This note presents a simple model of how resource rents can affect economic growth of a region of a centralized country, where sub-national governments have no authority over resource industries. The growth effect of resources appears to be conditional on the quality of institutions in the non-resource sector. Thus, even if the sub-national government does not affect the resource sector directly,the quality of institutions set by this government still influences whether resource boom has a positive or a negative effect on the economic growth.
2013
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/53563/1/MPRA_paper_53563.pdf
Libman, Alexander (2013): Resource Curse, Institutions and Non-Resource Sector.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:54068
2019-09-27T00:41:32Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/54068/
A Simulation of the Illegal Coal Mining in Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam using Vensim
Phan, Tuan
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q38 - Government Policy
Using Vensim PLE, this paper provides a simulation of the illegal coal mining in Quang Ninh province, Vietnam. Examining the three main loops including need for income effect, government enforcement and coal management effects and other effects (illegal density, technology, community and psychological effects), the paper sketches several scenarios under different levels of the key variables. Obtaining these results, the paper suggests a better scene in terms of socio-economic and environmental sustainability basing on the two major components. First, the government authorities should urge the enforcement and revise the coal management. Second, the community should have more active activities to abolish the illegal mining trend and raise effectively warnings about the danger of the illegal mining. Those parallel implementations shall create a surprisingly positive effect on the reduction of illegal coal mining in the province.
2008-06-06
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/54068/1/MPRA_paper_54068.pdf
Phan, Tuan (2008): A Simulation of the Illegal Coal Mining in Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam using Vensim.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:55924
2019-10-01T23:14:12Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/55924/
Introduction: Environmental Sustainability Symposium
Cebula, Richard
Payne, James
P14 - Property Rights
P16 - Political Economy
Q24 - Land
Q25 - Water
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q38 - Government Policy
R58 - Regional Development Planning and Policy
The issue of environmental sustainability is a controversial and extremely diverse multi-faceted topic that ranges from questions as to how to ensure that adequate investment in energy R&D and infrastructure will be undertaken, to state level renewable portfolio standards, to the impact of pollution havens on legislation that would enhance industrial greenhouse gas emission standards, to economic resilience to hurricane hazards, and to EPA policies. This paper summarizes seven studies that are devoted to exploring various aspects of the remarkably complex and diverse dimensions of environmental sustainability.
2013-02-20
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/55924/1/MPRA_paper_55924.pdf
Cebula, Richard and Payne, James (2013): Introduction: Environmental Sustainability Symposium. Published in: American Journal of Economics and Sociology , Vol. 73, No. 2 (15 April 2014): pp. 295-298.
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/56763/
An Empirical Analysis of Determinants of Commercial and Industrial Electricity Consumption
Cebula, Richard
Herder, Nate
Q21 - Demand and Supply ; Prices
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q38 - Government Policy
Q41 - Demand and Supply ; Prices
The present empirical study focuses on identifying key economic factors and other conditions that have influenced the per customer commercial and industrial consumption of electricity in the U.S. during recent years. Unlike most previous studies, this study uses a state-level panel data set for the period 2002 through 2005. The three panel two-stage least squares (P2SLS) estimates provided in this study imply that per customer commercial and industrial electricity consumption is an increasing function of the annual number of cooling degree days, per capita real disposable income (a de facto “control” variable), and the peak summer electricity generating capacity. Furthermore, per customer commercial and industrial electricity consumption is a decreasing function of the average real unit price of electricity to commercial and industrial enterprises.
2009-02-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/56763/1/MPRA_paper_56763.pdf
Cebula, Richard and Herder, Nate (2009): An Empirical Analysis of Determinants of Commercial and Industrial Electricity Consumption. Published in: Business and Economics Journal , Vol. 1, No. 1 (6 March 2010): pp. 1-7.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:59120
2019-09-26T11:01:23Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/59120/
Effects of Threshold Uncertainty on Common-Pool Resources
Adler Mandelbaum, Sara E
C92 - Laboratory, Group Behavior
H41 - Public Goods
P48 - Political Economy ; Legal Institutions ; Property Rights ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Regional Studies
Q38 - Government Policy
Many natural resources and common-pool resources have inherent thresholds regarding the onset of deleterious environmental impacts or consequences. Group and individual behavior were examined in an experimental setting using three distinct games designed to model common-pools in which there existed such a threshold: one with complete information of the threshold, one with incomplete information of the threshold and one with sporadically enforced targets. By design the true threshold was unknown to the players in the role of policymaker, and the guesses of the threshold value were allowed to change during every round. Sporadically enforced targets had a significant negative effect on the lifespan of a common-pool resource and individual gains. Allowing the participants to develop and act on their own beliefs for the location of the threshold improved both individual benefit and conservation of the common-pool. Conservation of common-pool resources will be best achieved by policies which allow users of the resource access to reliable information regarding the status of the common-pool and which enable the development of their own beliefs regarding the location of threshold.
2014-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/59120/1/MPRA_paper_59120.pdf
Adler Mandelbaum, Sara E (2014): Effects of Threshold Uncertainty on Common-Pool Resources.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:59270
2019-10-01T11:58:19Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/59270/
Effects of Threshold Uncertainty on Common-Pool Resources
Adler Mandelbaum, Sara E
C92 - Laboratory, Group Behavior
H41 - Public Goods
P48 - Political Economy ; Legal Institutions ; Property Rights ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Regional Studies
Q38 - Government Policy
Many natural resources and common-pool resources have inherent thresholds regarding the onset of deleterious environmental impacts or consequences. Group and individual behavior were examined in an experimental setting using three distinct games designed to model common-pools in which there existed such a threshold: one with complete information of the threshold, one with incomplete information of the threshold and one with sporadically enforced targets. By design the true threshold was unknown to the players in the role of policymaker, and the guesses of the threshold value were allowed to change during every round. Sporadically enforced targets had a significant negative effect on the lifespan of a common-pool resource and individual gains. Allowing the participants to develop and act on their own beliefs for the location of the threshold improved both individual benefit and conservation of the common-pool. Conservation of common-pool resources will be best achieved by policies which allow users of the resource access to reliable information regarding the status of the common-pool and which enable the development of their own beliefs regarding the location of threshold.
2014-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/59270/1/MPRA_paper_59270.pdf
Adler Mandelbaum, Sara E (2014): Effects of Threshold Uncertainty on Common-Pool Resources.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:59802
2019-10-21T03:00:32Z
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Effects of Threshold Uncertainty on Common-Pool Resources
Adler Mandelbaum, Sara E
C92 - Laboratory, Group Behavior
H41 - Public Goods
P48 - Political Economy ; Legal Institutions ; Property Rights ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Regional Studies
Q38 - Government Policy
Many natural and common-pool resources have inherent thresholds determining the onset of deleterious environmental impacts. Group and individual behavior were examined in an experimental setting designed to model common-pools with thresholds using three distinct treatments: one with Complete Threshold Information, one with Incomplete Threshold Information and one with Sporadically Enforced Targets. By design the true threshold was unknown to the players in the role of policy maker, and the guesses of the threshold value were allowed to change during every round. Sporadically enforced targets had a significant negative effect on the lifespan of a common-pool resource and individual gains.
Allowing the participants to develop and act on their own beliefs for the location of the threshold improved both individual benefit and conservation of the common-pool. These experiments indicate that conservation of common-pool resources will be best achieved through policies which allow users of the resource access to reliable information regarding the status of the common-pool and which enable users to develop and act on their own beliefs regarding the location of threshold.
2014-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/59802/1/MPRA_paper_59802.pdf
Adler Mandelbaum, Sara E (2014): Effects of Threshold Uncertainty on Common-Pool Resources.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:62147
2019-09-28T14:04:14Z
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Money and the epistemologies of ignorance concerning climate change
Lans, Cheryl
Q38 - Government Policy
Q43 - Energy and the Macroeconomy
Q5 - Environmental Economics
Q54 - Climate ; Natural Disasters and Their Management ; Global Warming
The investigations and politically-motivated attacks taking place in climate change studies confirm that scientific knowledge comes about as social constructions shaped by non-scientific events and circumstances such as interests, power relationships and negotiations. As both Lynn Hankinson Nelson and Foucault wrote truth claims are the result of (convergence and alignment) rather than the cause of agreement within some epistemic communities.
2012-10-15
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/62147/1/MPRA_paper_62147.pdf
Lans, Cheryl (2012): Money and the epistemologies of ignorance concerning climate change. Published in:
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:62214
2019-09-27T02:39:01Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/62214/
Corporate Walkover in Progress: The Case of the Southern Company’s “Clean Coal” Plant in Mississippi
Klinedinst, Mark
A1 - General Economics
L5 - Regulation and Industrial Policy
Q38 - Government Policy
Q4 - Energy
The project to create an experimental “clean coal” plant in Mississippi is funded by
electric utility customers in the poorest state in the United States. The incentives for the project
come from the industry capturing the Public Service Commission of Mississippi. The
controversial incentives stipulate that the Southern Company can earn a return on money spent to
create electrical infrastructure, even if the experimental plant never produces any electricity. The
Southern Company’s Kemper County Mississippi “Radcliffe” Plant, originally estimated to cost
about $1.2 billion, is approaching $6 billion dollars, is still not operational, and may never be a
profitable facility. Despite this, over 180,000 of America’s poorest citizens are expected to foot
the bill. Although this is one of the most intense examples of corporate welfare, the “Radcliffe”
Plant is hardly the only current case in the utility industry. The “Public Service Commission” of
Mississippi facilitated this large transfer of income from ratepayers to investors in this
monopoly.
2014-11-14
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/62214/1/MPRA_paper_62214.pdf
Klinedinst, Mark (2014): Corporate Walkover in Progress: The Case of the Southern Company’s “Clean Coal” Plant in Mississippi.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:62912
2019-09-28T04:32:16Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/62912/
Effects of Threshold Uncertainty on Common-Pool Resources
Adler Mandelbaum, Sara E
C92 - Laboratory, Group Behavior
H41 - Public Goods
P48 - Political Economy ; Legal Institutions ; Property Rights ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Regional Studies
Q38 - Government Policy
Many natural and common-pool resources have inherent thresholds determining the onset of deleterious environmental impacts. Group and individual behavior were examined in an experimental setting designed to model common-pools with thresholds using three distinct treatments: one with Complete Threshold Information, one with Incomplete Threshold Information and one with Sporadically Enforced Targets. By design the true threshold was unknown to the players in the role of policy maker, and the guesses of the threshold value were allowed to change during every round. Sporadically enforced targets had a significant negative effect on the lifespan of a common-pool resource and individual gains.
Allowing the participants to develop and act on their own beliefs for the location of the threshold improved both individual benefit and conservation of the common-pool. These experiments indicate that conservation of common-pool resources will be best achieved through policies which allow users of the resource access to reliable information regarding the status of the common-pool and which enable users to develop and act on their own beliefs regarding the location of threshold.
2014-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
en
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/62912/8/MPRA_paper_62912.pdf
Adler Mandelbaum, Sara E (2014): Effects of Threshold Uncertainty on Common-Pool Resources.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:64512
2019-09-28T09:29:55Z
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Rent-focused behavior and rent-seeking in the context of rent relations theory development
Latkov, Andrey
E03 - Behavioral Macroeconomics
O11 - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
Q38 - Government Policy
The perspective directions of rent-seeking phenomenon research are allocated in the article. The algorithm of rent-seeking system research is offered. rent-focused behavior and rent-seeking strategies are differenced in the text. The special attention is paid to definition of medium-term and long-term rent-seeking effects directed to assignment of natural-resources rent on example of national economic systems of the UAE and Nauru.
2015-05-21
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/64512/1/MPRA_paper_64512.pdf
Latkov, Andrey (2015): Rent-focused behavior and rent-seeking in the context of rent relations theory development.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:66116
2019-09-26T10:42:43Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/66116/
Petroleum Product Pricing, Deregulation and Subsidies in Ghana: Perspectives on Energy Security
Acheampong, Theophilus
Ackah, Ishmael
Q3 - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation
Q31 - Demand and Supply ; Prices
Q38 - Government Policy
Q4 - Energy
Q40 - General
Q48 - Government Policy
This paper reviews Ghana’s recent experience with downstream petroleum products pricing and
deregulation and looks at its implications for the nation’s energy security needs. The Government of
Ghana in June 2015 put in place a deregulation policy that had the expectation of allowing marketers and
importers of petroleum products to sell directly to consumers by setting their own prices. The policy has
the primary objective bring an end to government subsidies on the product which arises in from exchange
rate losses and consumer subsidies. The study welcomes government’s decision to revert to the
competitive market forces using automatic price formulation as this removes implicit subsidization and its
distortionary effects on the economy. With the advent of full deregulation, the burden of managing forex
risks will shift from the government to the BDCs and TOR, and any such losses will become their prerogative. Petroleum subsidies, if any, should be redesigned and better targeted at the poor in the form
of direct cash transfers as well as entrepreneurial skills training to improve their social and living
conditions. Subsidies create distortionary effects and further exacerbate fiscal pressures as government
has to borrow or tap into its reserves to offset price differentials.
2015-08-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/66116/1/MPRA_paper_66116.pdf
Acheampong, Theophilus and Ackah, Ishmael (2015): Petroleum Product Pricing, Deregulation and Subsidies in Ghana: Perspectives on Energy Security.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:71733
2019-09-28T18:08:19Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/71733/
A Quantitative Description of State-Level Taxation of Oil and Gas Production in the Continental U.S.
Weber, Jeremy G.
Wang, Yongsheng
Chomas, Maxwell
Q38 - Government Policy
Q48 - Government Policy
We provide a quantitative description of state-level taxation of oil and gas production in the Continental U.S. for 2004 to 2013. Aggregate revenues from production taxes nearly doubled in real terms over the period, reaching $10.3 billion and accounting for 20 percent of tax receipts in the top ten revenue states. The average state had a tax rate of 3.6 percent; nationally, the average dollar of production was taxed at 4.2 percent. The oil-specific rate estimated for the study period is $2.4 per barrel or $5.5 per ton of carbon. Lastly, state-level tax rates are two-thirds higher in states excluding oil and gas wells from local property taxes, suggesting that the policies are substitutes for one another.
2016-06-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/71733/1/MPRA_paper_71733.pdf
Weber, Jeremy G. and Wang, Yongsheng and Chomas, Maxwell (2016): A Quantitative Description of State-Level Taxation of Oil and Gas Production in the Continental U.S. Forthcoming in: Energy Policy
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:76089
2019-09-28T03:03:34Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/76089/
La Política de Aguas en Chile y la Gran Minería del Cobre
Sturla, Gino
Illanes, Camila
O1 - Economic Development
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
O2 - Development Planning and Policy
Q25 - Water
Q3 - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation
Q38 - Government Policy
The article discusses, from a critical approach, water management in Chile,describing its institutional foundations and current physical and legal reality,
highlighting the lack of adequate policy response to serious tensions and conflicts that emerge around the resource; not be postponed more important role of state agencies and citizens. Moreover the key aspects that have defined the policy of copper in the last three decades are described, where the denationalization of the xploitation of this resource has reduced the chances of raisingmore revenue for the state, which could have been set aside for fundamental needs like health, education or housing. Given its vital importance, the relationship
between water and mining, within the context of sovereignty over natural resources and the sustainability of development, illustrating the detriment to the natural heritage and establishing a proposal for charging for the use of water to large mining as an economic and environmental signal, all framed within a national policy for integrated management of this vital resource.
2014-11-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/76089/1/MPRA_paper_76089.pdf
Sturla, Gino and Illanes, Camila (2014): La Política de Aguas en Chile y la Gran Minería del Cobre. Published in: Revista Análisis Público , Vol. 4, (4 November 2014): pp. 63-99.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:78094
2019-09-28T16:46:53Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/78094/
أثر الحوكمة على عوائد الموارد الطبيعية : دراسة تطبيقية مع إشارة للدول العربية
Shaker, Saber Adly
E02 - Institutions and the Macroeconomy
G30 - General
Q38 - Government Policy
The main purpose of this research is to investigate the impact of governance (especially of natural resources) on returns of natural resources sector (specifically oil and natural gas). In addition, It also examines whether governance turn point exists or not. The natural resources governance index used in this research was drawn from the Revenue Watch Institute for the year 2013 while the natural resources rent, GDP, and natural resources depletion data were obtained from the World Bank Database. The study covered fifty-six countries; ten of them are Arabian countries. And it adopted the cross-sectional data framework, the Ordinary Least Square estimation technique is used for the analysis.
The research found that governance, GDP, and depletion of natural resources impact positively on the returns of natural resources. The research also found that there is a turning point for governance which means that after a given level of governance the significant positive impact diverted to be a significant negative impact. The research advocates that the last result may be due to the maximized governance after optimal level may lead to
bureaucracy or/and combat the corruption in natural resources sector which lead to a drop in natural resources returns. The results suggest that firstly, it's necessary to provide a legislative guarantee to ensure ease of access to data related to the natural resources
sector. Secondly, apply the disclosure standards of the contracts entered by the government with companies worked in the natural resources sector. Thirdly, publish periodic reports on the financial receipts and licensing revenues and assess both of the economic and environmental returns in the exploitation of natural resources projects. Fourthly, application of accountability standards begins with setting clear selection criterions for top management in both of public companies and governmental agencies related to the natural resources sector. Fifthly, publish financial data of natural resources funds in terms of assets and how to manage those funds. Sixthly, encourage the cooperation with international organizations which interested
in governance, for example, joining the World Bank's initiative to promote transparency in the extractive industries, which indicate to good intentions from the government to apply the principles of governance.
Finally, by analyzing the returns of natural resources - oil and natural gas only - in terms of value in Arab countries, it notes that there are ten Arab countries that have about 648.8 billion US Dollar in the year 2014.
Therefore, the share of the ten Arab countries is about 21% of the total
revenue of the natural resources in the world in 2014. This fact indicates that Arab countries are a major player in the natural resources market. So, any
attempts to reform the natural resources sector will lead to positive effects on the whole economy performance
2017-03-23
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/78094/1/MPRA_paper_78094.pdf
Shaker, Saber Adly (2017): أثر الحوكمة على عوائد الموارد الطبيعية : دراسة تطبيقية مع إشارة للدول العربية. Published in:
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:79238
2019-09-27T05:22:09Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/79238/
Uncertainty, Learning, and Local Opposition to Hydraulic Fracturing
Hess, Joshua
Manning, Dale
Iverson, Terry
Cutler, Harvey
C61 - Optimization Techniques ; Programming Models ; Dynamic Analysis
C68 - Computable General Equilibrium Models
Q34 - Natural Resources and Domestic and International Conflicts
Q38 - Government Policy
Q58 - Government Policy
The development of oil and gas extraction technologies, including hydraulic fracturing (fracking), has increased fossil fuel reserves in the US. Despite benefits, uncertainty over environmental damages has led to fracking bans, both permanent and temporary, in many jurisdictions. We develop a stochastic dynamic learning model parameterized with a computable general equilibrium model to explore if uncertainty about damages, combined with the ability to learn about risks, can explain fracking bans in practice. Applying the model to a representative Colorado municipality, we quantify the quasi-option value (QOV), which creates an additional incentive to ban fracking temporarily in order to learn, though it only influences policy in a narrow range of oil and gas prices. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt to quantify an economy-wide QOV associated with a local environmental policy decision.
2016-12-30
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/79238/1/MPRA_paper_79238.pdf
Hess, Joshua and Manning, Dale and Iverson, Terry and Cutler, Harvey (2016): Uncertainty, Learning, and Local Opposition to Hydraulic Fracturing.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:80271
2019-10-01T07:51:29Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/80271/
Role of socio-economic variables in adoption of crop insurance: A Discriminant Function Approach
Kumari, Mrinali
Singh, K.M.
Sinha, D.K.
Ahmad, Nasim
Mishra, R.R.
O33 - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences ; Diffusion Processes
Q00 - General
Q1 - Agriculture
Q12 - Micro Analysis of Farm Firms, Farm Households, and Farm Input Markets
Q14 - Agricultural Finance
Q38 - Government Policy
This study examined the influence of the respondents’ socio-economic characteristics on their adoption of crop insurance schemes. Discriminant analysis based on the criteria values of standardized canonical coefficient and correlation
matrix identified that educational level, farm size, satisfaction level, awareness and access to source of credit were positive discriminators while negative coefficients were obtained for age, income level and number of earning members.
Awareness about crop insurance scheme, satisfaction level of farmer respondent with respect to the insurance scheme and access to source of credit were the highest discriminant variables. The study made it amply clear that socio-economic characteristics of farmers exert a significant influence on their adoption of crop insurance schemes. Taking into cognizance the findings of the discriminant analysis it can be inferred that awareness about the schemes and their benefits have to be created among the farmers in order to motivate them to go for insurance of their crops.
2017-06-14
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/80271/1/MPRA_paper_80271.pdf
Kumari, Mrinali and Singh, K.M. and Sinha, D.K. and Ahmad, Nasim and Mishra, R.R. (2017): Role of socio-economic variables in adoption of crop insurance: A Discriminant Function Approach.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:81862
2019-09-27T12:46:02Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/81862/
Oil rents and institutional quality: empirical evidence from Algeria
Chekouri, Sidi Mohamed
Benbouziane, Mohamed
Chibi, Abderrahim
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
O17 - Formal and Informal Sectors ; Shadow Economy ; Institutional Arrangements
Q38 - Government Policy
Q43 - Energy and the Macroeconomy
This paper examines the interaction between natural resource abundance and institutional
quality in Algeria, using two measures of institutional quality (corruption and democratic
accountability), and a measures for resource endowment (oil rents as a percentage of GDP).
Our results indicate that an increase in oil rents significantly increase corruption in Algeria,
while the interaction effect between oil rents and democratic accountability is positive and
statistically significant, which means that enhancing democratic institutions can reduce
corruption. It is also revealed that the manufactures exports significantly decline in the
aftermath of oil rents shock, a pattern consistent with the Dutch Disease phenomenon. On the
one hand, these findings confirms that Algeria’s institutional framework demonstrates a high
degree of perceived weakness, and on the other hand, enhancing these institutional
environment would reduce corruption, and increase the impact of resource abundance on
economic development.
2017-01-05
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/81862/1/MPRA_paper_81862.pdf
Chekouri, Sidi Mohamed and Benbouziane, Mohamed and Chibi, Abderrahim (2017): Oil rents and institutional quality: empirical evidence from Algeria. Published in: Topics in Middle Eastern and African Economies , Vol. Vol. 1, No. Issue No. 2, Septembre 2017 (September 2017): pp. 1-31.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:84688
2019-10-01T11:58:50Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/84688/
Biodiversitatea patrimoniului natural montan. Provocările prezentului și perspective durabile de acțiune
Antonescu, Daniela
Q20 - General
Q23 - Forestry
Q28 - Government Policy
Q3 - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation
Q30 - General
Q38 - Government Policy
Q5 - Environmental Economics
Q52 - Pollution Control Adoption and Costs ; Distributional Effects ; Employment Effects
Q57 - Ecological Economics: Ecosystem Services ; Biodiversity Conservation ; Bioeconomics ; Industrial Ecology
Q58 - Government Policy
Între zonele montane și biodiversitate există o legătură directă și indisolubilă: zonele montane reprezintă, poate, cel mai important izvor de eco-sisteme la nivel global, adevărate laboratoare științifice, de cercetare și cunoaștere a evoluției și distribuției speciilor și organismelor vii, a relațiilor dintre acestea, a adaptării lor la diferite medii și a influențelor hotărâtoare ale acțiunilor umane care au condus la actualele schimbări climatice. Munții funcționează ca adevărate refugii pentru speciile endemice afectate de acțiunile umane necontrolate, în timp ce pajiștile alpine sunt expuse pierderii practicilor tradiționale de pășunat. Regiunile montane, diverse și complexe, sunt elementele centrale ale politicilor de mediu și dezvoltare durabilă, problemele lor și dificultățile de adaptare la noile schimbări climatice necesitând măsuri adecvate, rapide și, mai ales, permanente (susținute continuu).
Munții aparțin, de regulă, geografiei mediului, dar, deopotrivă, pot fi analizați și din perspectivă economică, socială, culturală etc., multidisciplinaritatea lor fiind recunoscută atât de mediul academic-universitar, cât și de factorii decizionali implicați în politicile de dezvoltare teritorială.
Recent, Noua Geografie Economică (New Economic Geography) promovată intens pe plan global, consideră dezvoltarea economică și socială a regiunilor montane ca fiind una deosebit de importantă: zonele montane sunt surse importante de materii prime și materiale necesare producției și consumului de bază (agricultură, industrie, servicii), aspect ce afectează, în condițiile actuale, atât biodiversitatea, cât și nivelul de viață al comunităților locale. Perspectiva economică este deosebit de importantă atât la nivelul marilor grupuri de interese regionale, cât mai ales la nivel local, pentru comunitățile dependente direct și permanent de resursele și condițiile oferite de munte. Din ce în ce mai vizibil, impactul negativ al activităților economice asupra zonei montante, atât de înaltă cât și de joasă altitudine, trebuie să conducă spre o viziune comună și o abordare durabilă a stării biodiversității acesteia, deoarece, afectarea unui habitat poate atrage după sine distrugerea întregului echilibrul ecologic, și așa atât de fragil, în prezent. Pornind de la considerentele prezentate mai sus, articolul oferă o imagine generală asupra relației dintre biodiversitatea zonelor montane și implicațiile dezvoltării economice și sociale asupra acesteia, apelând, în principal, la surse documentare naționale și internaționale, la date și informații statistice, care vin să completeze imaginea globală a evoluției relației, în timp și spațiu.
2018-02-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/84688/1/MPRA_paper_84688.pdf
Antonescu, Daniela (2018): Biodiversitatea patrimoniului natural montan. Provocările prezentului și perspective durabile de acțiune.
ro
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:87881
2019-09-27T20:16:14Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/87881/
Difficulties in the forecasting of iron ore price: a review
Bazhanov, Andrei
L13 - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
Q31 - Demand and Supply ; Prices
Q38 - Government Policy
The interest in the analysis of the iron ore market significantly increased after a sharp spike in the iron ore price in 2008-2010 and consecutive decline. Understanding of the reasons for these shifts are crucial for further development of the industry because a high price motivates investments in developing new mines but a long lead time for new projects and high price volatility make these investments very risky. The analysis of the studies of the iron ore market shows that the short-run behavior of iron ore price is highly dependent on oil price and variations in supply and demand, and is very difficult to predict. There are strong chances that the iron ore price will remain highly volatile with a low average in the long-run. The dependence on the price of oil and the corresponding volatility can be reduced by a gradual shift of iron ore sellers to non-fossil-fuel transport. This shift can be facilitated by the public policy regulations, offered in Ali et al. (2017) if this approach dominates the "modestly optimistic perspective" offered in Tilton et al. (2018), which relies mostly on market forces in the intergenerational distribution of nonrenewable resources. However, this approach also allows for a more stable iron ore price in the case of cartelization of iron ore sellers. Using the arguments of Jones (1986), fortified by an incentive compatibility mechanism, the current situation in the iron ore market is quite favorable for coordinated actions of iron ore sellers.
2018-04-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/87881/7/MPRA_paper_87881.pdf
Bazhanov, Andrei (2018): Difficulties in the forecasting of iron ore price: a review.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:88572
2019-09-28T04:44:58Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/88572/
Difficulties in the forecasting of iron ore price: a review
Bazhanov, Andrei
L13 - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
Q31 - Demand and Supply ; Prices
Q38 - Government Policy
The interest in the analysis of the iron ore market significantly increased after a sharp spike in the iron ore price in 2008-2010 and consecutive decline. Understanding of the reasons for these shifts are crucial for further development of the industry because a high price motivates investments in developing new mines but a long lead time for new projects and high price volatility make these investments very risky. The analysis of the studies of the iron ore market shows that the short-run behavior of iron ore price is highly dependent on oil price and variations in supply and demand, and is very difficult to predict. There are strong chances that the iron ore price will remain highly volatile with a low average in the long-run. The dependence on the price of oil and the corresponding volatility can be reduced by a gradual shift of iron ore sellers to non-fossil-fuel transport. This shift can be facilitated by the public policy regulations, offered in Ali et al. (2017) if this approach dominates the "modestly optimistic perspective" offered in Tilton et al. (2018), which relies mostly on market forces in the intergenerational distribution of nonrenewable resources. If the latter approach dominates, it also allows for a more stable iron ore price, for example, in the case of cartelization of iron ore sellers. Using the arguments of Jones (1986), fortified by an incentive compatibility mechanism, the current situation in the iron ore market is quite favorable for coordinated actions of iron ore sellers.
2018-04-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/88572/1/MPRA_paper_88572.pdf
Bazhanov, Andrei (2018): Difficulties in the forecasting of iron ore price: a review.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:92492
2019-10-11T08:47:49Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/92492/
The Impact of Natural Gas Consumption on Industry Value Added in the Mediterranean Region
Harkat, Tahar
L10 - General
O29 - Other
O40 - General
Q30 - General
Q38 - Government Policy
Q43 - Energy and the Macroeconomy
The current paper assesses the link between natural gas consumption (NGC) and macroeconomic variables for the period between 1980 and 2018 in the Mediterranean region. Analyses accounts for assessing the significance of the natural gas consumption on the industry value added (IVA) using fixed-effects panel data regression. In addition to that, this contribution evaluates the causal link between the variables cited above. Empirical findings indicate that there is a significant relationship between IVA and NGC. Furthermore, these two latter variables showcase a mutual causality in a sense that an increase in each of these variables will lead to the increase of the other one. Results also indicate that GDP causes the increase in natural gas consumption
2019-03-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/92492/1/MPRA_paper_92492.pdf
Harkat, Tahar (2019): The Impact of Natural Gas Consumption on Industry Value Added in the Mediterranean Region.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:92524
2019-09-29T00:04:48Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/92524/
Does information matter? Transparency and demand for accountability in Ghana's natural resource revenue management
Brunnschweiler, Christa
Edjekumhene, Ishmael
Lujala, Päivi
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
Q38 - Government Policy
Transparency in resource revenue management is frequently cited as an important strategy to avoid misuse and misappropriation. The underlying theory proposes that transparency will allow citizens to gain (more) information on their country’s revenues and their management; better informed citizens in turn will be able to contribute to the debate on national resource governance issues, voice their concerns, and demand improved accountability if necessary. However, there is little micro-level evidence so far to show how transparency policies actually relate to better citizen knowledge, or to any difference in attitudes towards revenue management and in demand for accountability. To address these points, we analyze data from a unique survey of over 3500 Ghanaian citizens to understand how Ghana’s extractive sector transparency measures are linked to citizens’ knowledge, rights perception, satisfaction levels, and behavior regarding resource revenue management. Our results suggest that information levels among citizens are generally quite poor; however, there is a strong sense of citizens’ right to benefit from resource revenues. Satisfaction with the current use of natural resource revenues is very low; yet, few respondents have sought more information, or even discussed resource revenue management with friends or family. The results also hold for elected representatives, who should be best placed to influence resource governance. The findings imply that the transparency discourse may hinge on false assumptions of the effects of information in resource revenue management. If the policy is to work as a way of increasing accountability of government towards citizens, the focus may need to shift to informing civil society organizations in particular, rather than simply making information available as widely as possible.
2019-03-04
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/92524/1/MPRA_paper_92524.pdf
Brunnschweiler, Christa and Edjekumhene, Ishmael and Lujala, Päivi (2019): Does information matter? Transparency and demand for accountability in Ghana's natural resource revenue management.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:92791
2019-09-26T08:16:51Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/92791/
Identifikasi Modal Sosial Masyarakat Terhadap Restorasi Lahan Pasca Tambang: (Studi Masyarakat Desa Bukit Kijang, Kecamatan Namang, Kabupaten Bangka Tengah)
Herdiyanti, Herdiyanti
A13 - Relation of Economics to Social Values
A14 - Sociology of Economics
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q38 - Government Policy
Q51 - Valuation of Environmental Effects
Q56 - Environment and Development ; Environment and Trade ; Sustainability ; Environmental Accounts and Accounting ; Environmental Equity ; Population Growth
Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology
Z13 - Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology ; Social and Economic Stratification
Social capital is an important instrument that has an influence on people's lives socially and economically. This decade's economic development is an interesting concern for all people, especially the government, in realizing public welfare. This reality relates to the focus of this research study on post-mining land restoration programs that are taking place in the Bukit Kijang Village. This study uses qualitative research methods with a case study approach. Meanwhile this study uses the theory of the character James Coleman regarding the concept of social capital. The purpose of this study is to identify social capital in the lives of the people of Bukit Kijang Village towards the ongoing post-mining land restoration program in the village. The results showed that the low social capital in the Bukit Kijang Village community. Some indicators of social capital that can be elaborated such as the low level of community participation in post-mining land restoration programs, low information flows such as ineffective communication in the Bukit Kijang Village community. In addition, the low social relations that exist in the community, such as the lack of community participation in the implementation of programs pioneered by the Bangka Regency Government and the Ministry of Environment and the private sector involved in the program.
2017-06-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/92791/1/16-Article%20Text-13-1-10-20181121.pdf
Herdiyanti, Herdiyanti (2017): Identifikasi Modal Sosial Masyarakat Terhadap Restorasi Lahan Pasca Tambang: (Studi Masyarakat Desa Bukit Kijang, Kecamatan Namang, Kabupaten Bangka Tengah). Published in: Society , Vol. 5, No. 1 (1 December 2017): pp. 13-21.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:94803
2019-09-28T16:44:47Z
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Fridays for Future meets the Hotelling rule: some thoughts on decarbonization policies
Pasche, Markus
O30 - General
Q30 - General
Q37 - Issues in International Trade
Q38 - Government Policy
Q54 - Climate ; Natural Disasters and Their Management ; Global Warming
Q58 - Government Policy
The Hotelling rule is applied to the case of a fixed CO2 budget restriction which has to be met in order to reach the global warming goal according to the Paris Agreement. While the theoretical result is well-known and simple, the practical implementation under technological uncertainty suggests that tradable emission certificates are superior to CO2 taxes. The practical implementaion has also to consider that production chains are globalized, and that decarbonization strategies will be pointless if the Global South is not part of it.
2019-07-02
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/94803/1/MPRA_paper_94803.pdf
Pasche, Markus (2019): Fridays for Future meets the Hotelling rule: some thoughts on decarbonization policies.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:95785
2019-09-27T07:35:01Z
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Natural Resources Revenue Allocation: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Approach
Haqiqi, Iman
Aghanazari, Hasan
Sharzei, Gholamali
C67 - Input-Output Models
C68 - Computable General Equilibrium Models
F43 - Economic Growth of Open Economies
O44 - Environment and Growth
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q38 - Government Policy
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the economic impacts of inter-generational allocation of exhaustible natural resources. We quantify the potential impacts of implementing this on oil and gas revenues in Iran. We employ an overlapping-generations computable general equilibrium model which is calibrated based on the 2010 Iranian Micro Consistent Matrix. We assume an open economy with different sectors such as oil and gas, public services, and other activities. Assuming exhaustible resources, we measure the impact of different annual saving rates for the Resources Revenue on welfare, size of the public sector, activity levels, and exports. We find that investing the revenue of oil and gas in Iran, will lead to a 55% higher annual growth rate in the long-run.
2013
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/95785/1/MPRA_paper_95785.pdf
Haqiqi, Iman and Aghanazari, Hasan and Sharzei, Gholamali (2013): Natural Resources Revenue Allocation: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Approach. Published in: Journal of Economic Modeling Research , Vol. 3, No. 11 (2013): pp. 49-76.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:96546
2019-10-23T12:33:10Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/96546/
Squaring the energy efficiency circle: evaluating industry energy efficiency policy in a hybrid model setting
Andersen, Kristoffer Steen
Dockweiler, Steffen
Klinge Jacobsen, Henrik
H20 - General
O52 - Europe
Q38 - Government Policy
Q41 - Demand and Supply ; Prices
Q43 - Energy and the Macroeconomy
Q48 - Government Policy
Improving energy efficiency within the industry will play a central role in mitigating greenhouse gas emissions by reducing the use of fossil fuels. Nevertheless, the ex-ante evaluation of energy-efficiency policies largely remains an unresolved challenge. Understood within a theoretical economic framework, the root of the challenge is the simultaneity and interaction between three primary effects: an activity, a price, and a technical effect. This paper demonstrates how the IntERACT model, a Danish hybrid model, captures each effect and their interactions endogenously. The paper finds that a specific energy efficiency policy leads to an additional reduction in industrial energy use of around 5% in the year 2030, of which a policy-induced reduction in the energy efficiency gap accounts for half. The results reflect a total rebound effect of 12.5% and an implied elasticity of energy service demand of 16 around 15% across industrial sectors.
2019-09
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/96546/1/MPRA_paper_96546.pdf
Andersen, Kristoffer Steen and Dockweiler, Steffen and Klinge Jacobsen, Henrik (2019): Squaring the energy efficiency circle: evaluating industry energy efficiency policy in a hybrid model setting.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:96852
2019-11-08T17:13:31Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/96852/
Sustainability, innovation, and efficiency:A key relationship
Schilirò, Daniele
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q38 - Government Policy
Q50 - General
Q55 - Technological Innovation
Q56 - Environment and Development ; Environment and Trade ; Sustainability ; Environmental Accounts and Accounting ; Environmental Equity ; Population Growth
Sustainability has become the emerging goal for countries, companies, and people. Sustainability usually refers to the need to develop models necessary for both human beings and our planet to survive. However, sustainability is not a short-term problem; it is above all a long-term issue, posing intergenerational equity problems. Moreover, sustainability needs efficiency. The efficient use of energy, natural, material, and informational resources is vital for sustainability and sustainable development, which should be the major goal of every country, as established in Rio in 1992, and reaffirmed at Rio+ 20 in 2012. But any strategy aiming at sustainability and efficient use of resources must focus on innovation and technological progress. Consequently, innovation is fundamental to making sustainability possible and improving efficiency. Yet, innovation for sustainability must be environmentally friendly (e.g., green technologies). The principle behind such a strategy is better instead of more. This paper aims at highlighting the key relationship among sustainability, innovation, and efficiency. First, it examines the concept of sustainability, looking at the neoclassical literature on sustainability and its relationship with innovation. Then, it analyzes different theoretical approaches and discusses the policy issues for sustainability where innovation, natural capital, human capital, population, and institutions are fundamental factors.
2019-03
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/96852/1/MPRA_paper_96852.pdf
Schilirò, Daniele (2019): Sustainability, innovation, and efficiency:A key relationship.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:96912
2019-11-14T16:46:44Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/96912/
The Tax Treatment of Non-Renewable Resource Exploration Expenditures in Canada: A Historical Review and a Way Forward
Tedds, Lindsay M.
H23 - Externalities ; Redistributive Effects ; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
H24 - Personal Income and Other Nonbusiness Taxes and Subsidies
H25 - Business Taxes and Subsidies
Q38 - Government Policy
The Canadian Income Tax Act recognizes three main types of expenses incurred in Canada by firms principally engaged in mineral, metal, petroleum, and natural gas. These are Canadian Exploration Expenses (CEEs), Canadian Development Expenses (CDEs), and Canadian Oil and Gas Property Expenses (COPGE). The Income Tax Act permits these expenses to be deductible from income for tax purposes to varying degrees of generosity. CEEs are 100% deductible from income while CDEs and CPOGEs are generally deductible at a declining balance rate of 30% or 10% per year respectively.,
Canada’s new federal government has proposed to change the deductibility of CEEs, a change that potentially has wide-reaching implications for Canada’s energy and resources sector. In particular, the government has committed to phasing out subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, the first step of which is to only allow the use of the CEE deduction for unsuccessful exploration. The Liberal proposal raises important considerations about the tax treatment of exploration expenses. First, what is the background of and justification for the current tax treatment of these expenses? Second, in what way could the CEE expense be considered a subsidy? Third, what are some of the real implications of the proposal?
To analyze this issue, I first lay out the history regarding the tax deductibility of resource expenses in Canada, detailing how the existing tax treatment can be considered preferential. The preferential tax treatment for exploration and development expenses then laid the ground work for the flow-through share regime, which flows the deduction through to investor’s in exchange for equity investment. The second section details the history of the flow-through share regime, showing how the FTS regime is not only based on a tax preference but also is itself preferential tax treatment. The third section lays out the justifications for the tax preferences for both exploration and development expenses and the FTS regime. The paper then addresses the evidence for the justifications for the preferential tax treatments. Finally, the paper considers the outstanding questions from the Liberal proposal as well as the implications the proposal has. Poignantly, the proposal as it stands will lead to the demise of the FTS regime and the implications of this will need to be addressed by the government if it proceeds with its proposal. The paper ends with some concluding remarks.
2017-12-17
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/96912/1/MPRA_paper_96912.pdf
Tedds, Lindsay M. (2017): The Tax Treatment of Non-Renewable Resource Exploration Expenditures in Canada: A Historical Review and a Way Forward. Published in: Income Tax at 100 Years: Essays and Reflections on the Income War Tax Ac (September 2018): 19:1-19:19.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:97776
2019-12-25T22:23:00Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/97776/
How Forward-Looking Are Local Governments? Evidence from Indonesia
Cassidy, Traviss
H72 - State and Local Budget and Expenditures
H75 - State and Local Government: Health ; Education ; Welfare ; Public Pensions
H77 - Intergovernmental Relations ; Federalism ; Secession
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
Q38 - Government Policy
Conventional wisdom in the policy community holds that volatile fiscal transfers to local governments will cause volatile local spending, due to policy myopia. I test the degree to which local governments are forward-looking by exploiting unusual variation in intergovernmental grants in Indonesia. A national reform permanently increased the general grant, and the increase was larger for less densely populated districts. Hydrocarbon-rich districts experienced transitory shocks to shared resource revenue. Districts responded to the permanent revenue shock by increasing investment in lumpy public goods. By contrast, districts smoothed their expenditure responses to the transitory revenue shocks, opting not to adjust lumpy public goods. The results suggest that local governments respond to changes in permanent public income over a time horizon of three to five years. I discuss implications for countercyclical fiscal policy and research on taxation and accountability.
2017-09-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/97776/1/MPRA_paper_97776.pdf
Cassidy, Traviss (2017): How Forward-Looking Are Local Governments? Evidence from Indonesia.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:101763
2020-07-13T05:59:03Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/101763/
Stranded Asset Risk and Political Uncertainty: The Impact of the Coal Phase-out on the German Coal Industry
Breitenstein, Miriam
Anke, Carl-Philipp
Nguyen, Duc Khuong
Walther, Thomas
C53 - Forecasting and Prediction Methods ; Simulation Methods
L13 - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
L94 - Electric Utilities
Q38 - Government Policy
We assess the value of stranded coal-fired power plants in Germany due to the critical phase- out by 2038. Within a Monte Carlo simulation, the scenarios under consideration (a slow decommissioning at the end of the technical lifetime in 2061, the highly probable phase-out by 2038, and an accelerated phase-out by 2030) are additionally assigned distributions to display the uncertainty of future developments. The results show an overall stranded asset value of €0.4 billion given the phase-out by 2038 and additional €14.3 billion if the phase-out is brought forward by eight years. This study also depicts the impacts of carbon pricing and the feed-in from renewable energy sources on the merit order and eventually the deterioration in economic conditions for hard coal and lignite power plants. Lastly, we illustrate immediate concerns for share prices of affected companies and contributes to closing the research gap between stranded physical and financial assets.
2019-10
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/101763/1/MPRA_paper_101763.pdf
Breitenstein, Miriam and Anke, Carl-Philipp and Nguyen, Duc Khuong and Walther, Thomas (2019): Stranded Asset Risk and Political Uncertainty: The Impact of the Coal Phase-out on the German Coal Industry.
en
oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:102831
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Economic Geography of the Australian Mining Industry
Bayari, Celal
E22 - Investment ; Capital ; Intangible Capital ; Capacity
E6 - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook
E62 - Fiscal Policy
F11 - Neoclassical Models of Trade
F12 - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies ; Fragmentation
F13 - Trade Policy ; International Trade Organizations
F15 - Economic Integration
F18 - Trade and Environment
F23 - Multinational Firms ; International Business
F41 - Open Economy Macroeconomics
F43 - Economic Growth of Open Economies
F55 - International Institutional Arrangements
F63 - Economic Development
J1 - Demographic Economics
J2 - Demand and Supply of Labor
J4 - Particular Labor Markets
J42 - Monopsony ; Segmented Labor Markets
J53 - Labor-Management Relations ; Industrial Jurisprudence
J7 - Labor Discrimination
J8 - Labor Standards: National and International
K2 - Regulation and Business Law
K21 - Antitrust Law
L1 - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance
L11 - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure ; Size Distribution of Firms
L16 - Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics: Industrial Structure and Structural Change ; Industrial Price Indices
L5 - Regulation and Industrial Policy
L51 - Economics of Regulation
N1 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics ; Industrial Structure ; Growth ; Fluctuations
N17 - Africa ; Oceania
N2 - Financial Markets and Institutions
N27 - Africa ; Oceania
N5 - Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment, and Extractive Industries
N57 - Africa ; Oceania
O1 - Economic Development
O10 - General
O11 - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
O19 - International Linkages to Development ; Role of International Organizations
P0 - General
Q0 - General
Q02 - Commodity Markets
Q1 - Agriculture
Q30 - General
Q31 - Demand and Supply ; Prices
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q33 - Resource Booms
Q35 - Hydrocarbon Resources
Q37 - Issues in International Trade
Q38 - Government Policy
Q4 - Energy
Q41 - Demand and Supply ; Prices
Q43 - Energy and the Macroeconomy
Q48 - Government Policy
This paper is a discussion of the economic geography of Australia. It provides a history of foreign investment in mining, and discusses several resources booms that shaped the landscape of the continent and the role of governments (state, federal and territory governments) in this process. The paper presents a chronological account of the development of the Australian mining industry, the primary activities of which are the extraction, and export of unprocessed coal, iron, minerals and increasingly natural gas. The paper analyzes the industry’s interaction with foreign investment and government assistance (that is government spending in relation to the industry such as subsidies, loans and infrastructure construction etc). Australia’s trade and foreign investment environment have long been deregulated. The Australian mining industry has benefited from this deregulation. But its most spectacular period has been the “commodities super-cycle” of the 2000s-2010s. Overall, its contribution to exports has long typified the mining industry. The discussion herein draws attention to the applicability of the ‘eclectic theory’ in reference to foreign investment in mining. That is, investing mining MNEs (multinational enterprises) have three main types of ‘locational advantages’ in Australia, 1) volume of the availability of resources, 2) foreign investment regulatory environment and 3) government assistance that benefits the mining industry’s expansion.
2015-03-24
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/102831/1/MPRA_paper_102831.pdf
Bayari, Celal (2015): Economic Geography of the Australian Mining Industry. Published in: Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie , Vol. 107, No. 5 (1 December 2016): pp. 552-566.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:102916
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Implementing Intergenerational Equity in Goa
Basu, Rahul
D6 - Welfare Economics
D61 - Allocative Efficiency ; Cost-Benefit Analysis
D62 - Externalities
D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
D72 - Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
D78 - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
D9 - Intertemporal Choice
E02 - Institutions and the Macroeconomy
E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy
E24 - Employment ; Unemployment ; Wages ; Intergenerational Income Distribution ; Aggregate Human Capital ; Aggregate Labor Productivity
E61 - Policy Objectives ; Policy Designs and Consistency ; Policy Coordination
E62 - Fiscal Policy
F64 - Environment
H23 - Externalities ; Redistributive Effects ; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
H82 - Governmental Property
K1 - Basic Areas of Law
K11 - Property Law
K32 - Environmental, Health, and Safety Law
L72 - Mining, Extraction, and Refining: Other Nonrenewable Resources
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
O22 - Project Analysis
O43 - Institutions and Growth
O44 - Environment and Growth
P14 - Property Rights
P26 - Political Economy ; Property Rights
P28 - Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment
P48 - Political Economy ; Legal Institutions ; Property Rights ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Regional Studies
Q01 - Sustainable Development
Q28 - Government Policy
Q3 - Nonrenewable Resources and Conservation
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q38 - Government Policy
Q56 - Environment and Development ; Environment and Trade ; Sustainability ; Environmental Accounts and Accounting ; Environmental Equity ; Population Growth
Q57 - Ecological Economics: Ecosystem Services ; Biodiversity Conservation ; Bioeconomics ; Industrial Ecology
Q58 - Government Policy
Hartwick’s rule says that as mineral resources are extracted from the ground, investments in productive assets need to be made to leave future generations with as much assets as the present generation. This article examines whether mining in Goa meets Hartwick’s rule, and finds that the state government captures only a small fraction of the value of the iron ore extracted from mines it has leased out. It also finds that most of the value of the iron ore is cornered by mining leaseholders,
resulting in a significant
redistribution of wealth from
the poor to the rich. It points to
national and sub-national entities
that follow Hartwick’s rule, and
says there are many best
practices that can be easily
adopted by India.
2014-12-20
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/102916/8/MPRA_paper_102916.pdf
Basu, Rahul (2014): Implementing Intergenerational Equity in Goa. Published in: Economic & Political Weekly , Vol. XLIX, No. 51 (20 December 2014): pp. 33-37.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:104250
2020-12-02T17:08:10Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/104250/
Do Intergovernmental Grants Improve Public Service Delivery in Developing Countries?
Cassidy, Traviss
H72 - State and Local Budget and Expenditures
H75 - State and Local Government: Health ; Education ; Welfare ; Public Pensions
H77 - Intergovernmental Relations ; Federalism ; Secession
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
Q38 - Government Policy
I exploit unusual policy variation in Indonesia to examine how local responses to intergovernmental grants depend on their persistence. A national reform produced permanent increases in the general grant that were larger for less densely populated districts. Hydrocarbon-rich districts experienced transitory shocks to shared resource revenue. Public service delivery strongly responded to the permanent shock, but not to the transitory shocks, consistent with districts providing lumpy public services as a function of lifetime fiscal resources. I provide supporting evidence for this mechanism and rule out other potential mechanisms. I discuss implications for decentralization policy and research on taxation and accountability.
2017-09-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/104250/8/MPRA_paper_104250.pdf
Cassidy, Traviss (2017): Do Intergovernmental Grants Improve Public Service Delivery in Developing Countries?
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:109297
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Asymmetry and hysteresis in the Russian gasoline market: the rationale for green energy exports
Fantazzini, Dean
Kolesnikova, Anna
C32 - Time-Series Models ; Dynamic Quantile Regressions ; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models ; Diffusion Processes ; State Space Models
C33 - Panel Data Models ; Spatio-temporal Models
C54 - Quantitative Policy Modeling
L71 - Mining, Extraction, and Refining: Hydrocarbon Fuels
Q28 - Government Policy
Q38 - Government Policy
Q43 - Energy and the Macroeconomy
Q48 - Government Policy
Using monthly data of 79 Russian regions from 2003 to 2017, we study the long-run relationship of the retail gasoline prices with the crude oil price and the nominal exchange rate. We find that models that were successfully applied to deal with asymmetries in other countries are not suitable for Russia without taking structural breaks into account. Once breaks are allowed, we find that there is no asymmetry in the long-run elasticities between the gasoline prices and the crude oil price,
and no significant hysteresis. However, there is an asymmetric relation between the gasoline price and the exchange rate that has decreased over time. These results also hold after several robustness checks. The evidence reported in this work shows that the effects of the exchange rate on gasoline prices are much more difficult to control than the oil price, and they require a larger set of policy measures: the recent development of a plan to decrease the importance of hydrocarbons exports
by producing clean hydrogen using electrolysis and pyrolysis and the potential future export of electricity generated using nuclear power and onshore wind farms may help to diversify the local economy and to shield it from new sanctions.
2021
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/109297/1/MPRA_paper_109297.pdf
Fantazzini, Dean and Kolesnikova, Anna (2021): Asymmetry and hysteresis in the Russian gasoline market: the rationale for green energy exports. Forthcoming in: Energy Policy (2021)
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:109649
2021-09-09T15:36:21Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/109649/
Do Intergovernmental Grants Improve Public Service Delivery in Developing Countries?
Cassidy, Traviss
H72 - State and Local Budget and Expenditures
H75 - State and Local Government: Health ; Education ; Welfare ; Public Pensions
H77 - Intergovernmental Relations ; Federalism ; Secession
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
Q38 - Government Policy
I exploit unusual policy variation in Indonesia to examine how local responses to intergovernmental grants depend on their persistence. A national reform produced permanent increases in the general grant that were larger for less densely populated districts. Hydrocarbon-rich districts experienced transitory shocks to shared resource revenue. Public service delivery strongly responded to the permanent shock, but not to the transitory shocks, consistent with districts providing lumpy public services as a function of lifetime fiscal resources. I provide supporting evidence for this mechanism and rule out other potential mechanisms. I discuss implications for decentralization policy and research on taxation and accountability.
2017-09-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/109649/17/MPRA_paper_109649.pdf
Cassidy, Traviss (2017): Do Intergovernmental Grants Improve Public Service Delivery in Developing Countries?
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:110203
2021-10-15T08:32:26Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/110203/
Homo Economicus: Rare earth profiling
Molintas, Dominique Trual
Runas, Tchaika Eliah
Runas, Yanni Eliah
Runas, Tamiya
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q34 - Natural Resources and Domestic and International Conflicts
Q37 - Issues in International Trade
Q38 - Government Policy
This paper discourses the IMF graph on monthly tin prices between May 2008 and May 2013, indicative of a high volatility on price, typical of rare earth metals. The sharp increases and steep decline on monthly prices, state the absence of equilibrium or stability between the supply side and the demand side. For that reason, price fluctuation is correlated to the oligopolistic market behaviour characterised of the World metals industry, dominated by a handful of suppliers having apparent control on pricing movements.
2013-10-15
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/110203/1/MPRA_paper_110203.pdf
Molintas, Dominique Trual and Runas, Tchaika Eliah and Runas, Yanni Eliah and Runas, Tamiya (2013): Homo Economicus: Rare earth profiling. Published in:
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:110415
2021-10-31T23:53:31Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/110415/
Extraction path and sustainability
Bazhanov, Andrei
Q01 - Sustainable Development
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q35 - Hydrocarbon Resources
Q38 - Government Policy
Q54 - Climate ; Natural Disasters and Their Management ; Global Warming
This paper offers an approach to construct a family of extraction paths for nonrenewables that guarantee long-run sustainability of an imperfect economy. A path from this family leads to a monotonic growth of output with a decreasing rate of growth if a sustainability condition holds. Otherwise, the path leads either to a bounded decline or U-shaped path of output. In this sense, the paper extends neoclassical results and provides a bridge between neoclassical and degrowth theories because neoclassical tools are used to quantify degrowth scenarios. The offered path can be incentive-compatible for climate change problems because it reduces the extraction of polluting minerals consistently with the IPCC goals.
That is, the climate-benefiting emission cuts by the parties of climate agreements may be guided by purely "egoistic" motives - to make own economies long-run sustainable.
2021-10-23
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/110415/1/MPRA_paper_110415.pdf
Bazhanov, Andrei (2021): Extraction path and sustainability.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:110597
2021-11-11T10:45:23Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/110597/
Natural resources, child mortality and governance quality in African countries
Tadadjeu, Sosson
Njangang, Henri
Asongu, Simplice
Kamguia, Brice
J13 - Fertility ; Family Planning ; Child Care ; Children ; Youth
O55 - Africa
Q33 - Resource Booms
Q34 - Natural Resources and Domestic and International Conflicts
Q38 - Government Policy
This paper contributes to the literature by investigating the effect of natural resources on under-five mortality in a sample of 50 African countries over the period 1996 to 2018. We also examine the extent to which governance shapes the relationship between natural resources and under-five mortality. Our results show that natural resources have increased under-five mortality. Resource rents also have detrimental effects on child mortality by age, gender, and the three major causes of infant mortality from infectious diseases. However, an extended analysis of different types of natural resources suggests that point resources (such as oil, natural gas and mineral rents) increase under-five mortality, in contrast to the diffuse resources (such as forest rent). We also find that governance mitigates the positive effect of natural resources on child mortality. Corresponding governance policy thresholds that should be attained in order to reverse the positive effects of natural resources on child mortality are provided. We thus suggest an increase in the funds allocated to the health sector from resource rents and encourage efforts to improve governance standards in sampled countries.
2021-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/110597/1/MPRA_paper_110597.pdf
Tadadjeu, Sosson and Njangang, Henri and Asongu, Simplice and Kamguia, Brice (2021): Natural resources, child mortality and governance quality in African countries.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:113878
2022-07-27T23:05:59Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/113878/
Horizontal agreements about the use of a natural resource
Van Moer, Geert
L13 - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
L41 - Monopolization ; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
Q01 - Sustainable Development
Q38 - Government Policy
I analyze horizontal agreements about the use of a natural resource. I consider a Cournot duopoly where production depends on two inputs, a natural resource and a basket of other resources, according to a production technology with constant returns to scale. I compare three regimes. (1) The competitive benchmark is defined such that firms operate with the cost-minimizing input combination. (2) A joint absolute usage target lowers the absolute usage of the natural resource. It also lowers the usage in relative terms, per unit of production, except with a fixed-proportions production technology. (3) A joint relative usage target mimics the competitive benchmark.
2022-07-25
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/113878/1/MPRA_paper_113878.pdf
Van Moer, Geert (2022): Horizontal agreements about the use of a natural resource.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:114464
2022-09-19T08:59:04Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/114464/
Revenue Persistence and Public Service Delivery
Cassidy, Traviss
H72 - State and Local Budget and Expenditures
H75 - State and Local Government: Health ; Education ; Welfare ; Public Pensions
H77 - Intergovernmental Relations ; Federalism ; Secession
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
Q38 - Government Policy
I exploit unusual policy variation in Indonesia to examine how local responses to intergovernmental grants depend on their persistence. A national reform generated permanent increases in the general grant that were larger for less densely populated districts, while hydrocarbon-rich districts experienced transitory shocks to shared resource revenue. Public service delivery strongly responded to the permanent shock, but not to the transitory shocks, consistent with districts providing lumpy public services as a function of lifetime fiscal resources. The timing and composition of expenditure responses are consistent with this mechanism. I discuss implications for decentralization policy and research on taxation and accountability.
2017-09-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/114464/1/MPRA_paper_114464.pdf
Cassidy, Traviss (2017): Revenue Persistence and Public Service Delivery.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:116251
2023-02-08T07:47:16Z
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7375626A656374733D48:4837:483735
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/116251/
Revenue Persistence and Public Service Delivery
Cassidy, Traviss
H72 - State and Local Budget and Expenditures
H75 - State and Local Government: Health ; Education ; Welfare ; Public Pensions
H77 - Intergovernmental Relations ; Federalism ; Secession
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
Q38 - Government Policy
I exploit unusual policy variation in Indonesia to examine how local responses to intergovernmental grants depend on their persistence.
A national reform generated permanent increases in the general grant that were larger for less densely populated districts, while hydrocarbon-rich districts experienced transitory shocks to shared resource revenue. Public service delivery strongly responded to the permanent shock, but not to the transitory shocks, consistent with districts providing lumpy public services as a function of lifetime fiscal resources. The timing and composition of expenditure responses are consistent with this mechanism. The results suggest that the underwhelming effects of natural resource revenue found in previous studies could be due, in part, to forward-looking behavior by local governments.
2017-09-01
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/116251/1/MPRA_paper_116251.pdf
Cassidy, Traviss (2017): Revenue Persistence and Public Service Delivery.
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:117637
2023-06-18T06:28:20Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/117637/
"Unearthing the Impacts: Illegal Mining's Toll on Formal Employment and Job Creation"
Yeboah, Samuel
Q17 - Agriculture in International Trade
Q32 - Exhaustible Resources and Economic Development
Q34 - Natural Resources and Domestic and International Conflicts
Q38 - Government Policy
This systematic review examines the impacts of illegal mining on formal employment, and job creation. Through a comprehensive analysis of relevant literature, the study explores the displacement of formal mining activities, job losses, and the indirect economic consequences of illegal mining. The review assesses existing policies and initiatives, identifies gaps in knowledge, and proposes future research directions. The findings emphasize the need for effective enforcement, policy interventions promoting formalization, and international cooperation to address the negative effects of illegal mining on employment. The study contributes to a better understanding of the issue and provides insights for policymakers, industry stakeholders, and researchers.
2023-04-14
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/117637/1/ILLEGAL%20MINING%20%20AND%20EMPLOYMENT%20IN%20GHANA%20FINAL%20PAPER%20FOR%20MPRA.pdf
Yeboah, Samuel (2023): "Unearthing the Impacts: Illegal Mining's Toll on Formal Employment and Job Creation".
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oai:mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de:117641
2023-06-18T06:39:23Z
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/117641/
Digging Deeper: The Impact of Illegal Mining on Economic Growth and Development in Ghana
Asuamah Yeboah, Samuel
O10 - General
O13 - Agriculture ; Natural Resources ; Energy ; Environment ; Other Primary Products
O20 - General
O25 - Industrial Policy
O43 - Institutions and Growth
Q34 - Natural Resources and Domestic and International Conflicts
Q38 - Government Policy
Illegal mining has emerged as a pressing issue with significant implications for economic growth and development in Ghana. This systematic review examines the impact of illegal mining on the country's economy and its overall development trajectory. The study focuses on the adverse effects of illegal mining, including environmental degradation, social instability, governance challenges, and lost revenue. It explores the interconnectedness of these impacts and their implications for sustainable development goals. The review reveals that illegal mining hampers economic growth by undermining formal mining activities, reducing investor confidence, and limiting government revenue. It highlights the detrimental effects on key sectors such as agriculture, tourism, and infrastructure. The environmental consequences, including deforestation, water pollution, and soil degradation, also pose long-term challenges for sustainable economic development. Additionally, the review identifies governance gaps and regulatory weaknesses as key drivers of illegal mining in Ghana. Inadequate enforcement, corruption, and weak institutional frameworks contribute to the persistence of illegal mining activities. These factors erode the rule of law and hinder effective resource management, posing obstacles to sustainable development. The study underscores the importance of addressing illegal mining comprehensively. It emphasizes the need for enhanced regulation, enforcement, and institutional capacity building to curtail illegal mining activities and promote responsible mining practices. Strengthening governance frameworks, engaging local communities, and fostering partnerships with international stakeholders is vital for sustainable economic growth and development. By shedding light on the multifaceted impacts of illegal mining, this systematic review provides valuable insights for policymakers, researchers, and stakeholders. It underscores the urgency of taking concrete actions to combat illegal mining and create an enabling environment for responsible and sustainable mining practices in Ghana.
2023-01-15
MPRA Paper
NonPeerReviewed
application/pdf
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https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/117641/1/THE%20IMPACT%20OF%20ILLEGAL%20MINING%20ON%20THE%20GHANAIAN%20ECONOMY%20FINAL%20FOR%20MPRA%20SUBMIT.pdf
Asuamah Yeboah, Samuel (2023): Digging Deeper: The Impact of Illegal Mining on Economic Growth and Development in Ghana.
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