Climate change policies and the UK business sector: Overview, impacts & suggestions for reform
Presentation given at the 2014 World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economics in Istanbul on 1st July.
Topic: Competitiveness, trade and economic growth
Evidence on business cycles and CO2 emissions
CO2 emissions and GDP move together over the business cycle. Most climate change researchers would agree with this statement despite the absence of a study that formally analyzes the relationship between emissions and GDP at business cycle frequencies. The paper provides a rigorous empirical analysis of this relationship in a comprehensive cross-country panel by decomposing the emissions and GDP series into their growth and cyclical components using the HP filter. read more »
Long run demand for energy services: income and price elasticities over 200 years
Data Set on the Consumption of Energy and Energy Services (1300-2008). Fouquet, R. (2014) Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 8(2).
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Tackling climate change would grow global economy, World Bank says
Findings put to rest claims that the world could not afford to act on climate change read more »
The structural shift to green services: A two-sector growth model with public capital and open-access resources
An expansion of economic activities with low impact on ecological resources is a crucial component of the transition to a low-carbon society. “Green” structural change is analysed here through a model with a “progressive” manufacturing sector and a “stagnant” service sector. read more »
Product level embodied carbon flows in bilateral trade
As increasingly complex modelling approaches to quantifying embodied carbon in trade have become popular, the lack of disaggregation has been identified as a key weakness. This paper quantifies embodied carbon in bilateral trade at the product level. read more »
Business and development: Changing discourses in the extractive industries
This paper identifies how organisational field dynamics have changed over time within the field of business and development. Using the extractive industries as the empirical setting, development agency policy documents and corporate reports are analysed in order to identify convergence and divergence of discourses and changing institutional logics. The business-development organisational field became structured around […]
National and sub-national integration
Matsumoto T; Nutall C; Bathan G; Gouldson AP; Laloe F; Pathak M; Robert A; Welch D (2014), Green Growth in Practice: Lessons from Country Experiences, GGGI, ECF and CDKN.
Human capital and economic growth: theory and quantification
Hippe, R. 2014. Economies et sociétés, AF, v. 49, pp. 1233-1267.
Green Economy: UN joins mission to balance investment goals
21 May 2014, Financial Times