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Wagner, Gernot.

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Essays on environmental and natural resource economics.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Essays on environmental and natural resource economics./
Author:	Wagner, Gernot.
Description:	132 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Robert N. Stavins.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-05A.
Subject:	Economics, General. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3265213
ISBN:	9780549040811

Essays on environmental and natural resource economics.
Wagner, Gernot.

Essays on environmental and natural resource economics. - 132 p.

Adviser: Robert N. Stavins.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2007.

I present three essays on environmental and natural resource economics and policy for my dissertation.

ISBN: 9780549040811Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017424
Economics, General.

Essays on environmental and natural resource economics.
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502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2007.
520 $a I present three essays on environmental and natural resource economics and policy for my dissertation.
520 $a First, I construct a comprehensive dataset of oil and total energy embedded in world trade of manufacturing goods for 73 countries from 1978 to 2000. Applying this dataset to debates on the dependency on foreign energy sources makes clear that achieving complete energy independence in the foreseeable future is unlikely to be feasible and may not be desirable. Applying it to the discussion of environmental Kuznets curves (EKCs) highlights an important distinction between production and consumption of energy. Richer countries use relatively less energy in their industrial production yet still consume relatively large amounts of energy indirectly. A further investigation largely excludes structural shifts of production in and out of the manufacturing sector as an explanation for the downward-sloping portion of the EKC. Country-level analyses add caveats but show tentative support for the cross-country conclusions.
520 $a Green accounting can take on various forms of adjustments to standard output measures. In a Ramsey model, as in chapter two, it highlights the importance of defensive expenditures and their role in output and welfare calculations. If both labor and environmental quality are included in a standard Ramsey growth model with two kinds of consumption goods, negative externalities increase the steady-state path of per capita output. At the same time, per capita utility---as well as societal welfare---decline. Economy-wide technological progress and population growth further widen this discrepancy between per capita output and utility. Accounting for defensive expenditures in this context enables an accurate description of welfare in that economy.
520 $a The third paper, joint with C.-Y. Cynthia Lin re-examines the Hotelling model of optimal depletable resource extraction in light of stock effects and technological progress. We assume functional forms for cost and demand so that the solution to the Hotelling problem is a steady-state consistent with the empirical observation that the growth rates of market prices have remained zero over a long period of time. We use data on 14 minerals from 1970 to 2004 to estimate the supply and demand functions using SUR and 3SLS and to test the model. We validate the model for 8 of 14 minerals.
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