Lucas Bretschger

ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich

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1.

Sustainability and Substitution of Exhaustible Natural Resources: How Resource Prices Affect Long-Term R&D Investments

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 25 Nov 2003
Lucas Bretschger and Sjak Smulders
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich and Tilburg University - Tilburg University School of Economics and Management
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Growth, Non-renewable resources, Substitution, Investment incentives, Endogenous technological change, Sustainability

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Explaining Environmental Kuznets Curves: How Pollution Induces Policy and New Technology

Tilburg University CentER Working Paper No. 2000-95
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 06 Nov 2000
Sjak Smulders and Lucas Bretschger
Tilburg University - Tilburg University School of Economics and Management and ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich
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Environmental Kuznets curve, general purpose technology, growth

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Economic Growth and the Diffusion of Clean Technologies: Explaining Environmental Kuznets Curves

WIF Institute of Economic Research Working Paper No. 05/42
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 13 Mar 2006
Sjak Smulders, Lucas Bretschger and Hannes Egli
Tilburg University - Tilburg University School of Economics and Management, ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Environmental Kuznets curve, general purpose technology, growth

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Population Growth and Natural Resource Scarcity: Long-Run Development Under Seemingly Unfavourable Conditions

CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich, Working Paper No. 08/87
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 24 Jun 2008
Lucas Bretschger
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich
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Population growth, non-renewable resources, poor input substitution, technical change, sustainability

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Stranded Assets: How Policy Uncertainty Affects Capital, Growth, and the Environment

CER-ETH – Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich Working Paper No. 18/288
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 24 Apr 2018
Lucas Bretschger and Susanne Soretz
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich and Universitaet Hannover - Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften
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policy uncertainty; stranded assets; private abatement; stochastic growth

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Malthus in the Light of Climate Change

CER-ETH – Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich Working Paper 19/320
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 23 May 2019
Lucas Bretschger
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich
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Population growth, climate change, endogenous innovation, sectoral change, fertility choice

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Energy Prices, Growth, and the Channels in between: Theory and Evidence

ETH Zurich Economics Working Paper No. 06/47
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 21 Feb 2006
Lucas Bretschger
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich
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Energy Prices and Growth, Endogenous Capital Accumulation, Structural Change, Panel Data

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Economics of Climate Change: Introducing the Basic Climate Economic (BCE) Model

CER-ETH – Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich Working Paper 18/296
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 15 Oct 2018
Lucas Bretschger and Christos Karydas
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich and ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich
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climate change, endogenous growth, climate policy, resource use, stock pollution

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Economic Effects of a Nuclear Phase-Out Policy: A CGE Analysis

CER-ETH – Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich Economics Working Paper Series No.12/167
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 01 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2012
Lucas Bretschger, Roger Ramer and Lin Zhang
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich, ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich and City University of Hong Kong (CityU)
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Energy and growth, nuclear phase out, CGE model, induced innovation

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Growth and Mitigation Policies With Uncertain Climate Damage

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Growth and Mitigation Policies With Uncertain Climate Damage

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 24 Aug 2014
Lucas Bretschger and Alexandra Vinogradova
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich and ETH Zürich
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Climate policy, uncertainty, natural disasters, endogenous growth.

Growth and Mitigation Policies with Uncertain Climate Damage

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 5085
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 10 Dec 2014
Lucas Bretschger and Alexandra Vinogradova
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich and ETH Zürich
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climate policy, uncertainty, natural disasters, endogenous growth

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Common Risk Factors and the Macroeconomy: New Evidence from the Japanese Stock Market

CER-ETH Working Paper No. 12/160
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 24 Apr 2012
Lucas Bretschger and Filippo Lechthaler
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich and ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich
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risk factors, value, size, momentum, Japanese stocks, macroeconomic conditions, structural break

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Market Concentration and the Likelihood of Financial Crises

CER-ETH – Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich Working Paper No. 10/138
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 02 Oct 2010
Lucas Bretschger and Vivien Kappel
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Market Concentration, Financial Crisis, Systemic Crisis

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Long-Run Effects of Post-Kyoto Policies: Applying a Fully Dynamic CGE Model with Heterogeneous Capital

CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich, Working Paper No. 10/129
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 18 Apr 2010
Lucas Bretschger, Roger Ramer and Florentine Schwark
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich, ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich and ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich
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Carbon policy, CGE models, energy and endogenous growth, heterogeneous capital

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Escaping Damocles' Sword: Endogenous Climate Shocks in a Growing Economy

CER-ETH – Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich, Working Paper 18/291, May 2018
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 15 Jun 2018
Lucas Bretschger and Alexandra Vinogradova
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich and ETH Zürich
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climate policy, uncertainty, natural disasters, endogenous growth

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Knowledge Diffusion, Endogenous Growth, and the Costs of Global Climate Policy

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 19 Dec 2015
Lucas Bretschger, Sebastian Rausch, Filippo Lechthaler and Lin Zhang
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich, ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich and City University of Hong Kong (CityU)
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Technological Change, Choices and Consequences, Environment and Growth, Technological Innovation, Computable General Equilibrium Models

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Endogenous Growth, Asymmetric Trade and Resource Taxation

CER-ETH (Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich) Working Paper No. 10/132
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 28 Aug 2010
Lucas Bretschger and Simone Valente
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
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Endogenous Growth, Exhaustible Resources, International Trade

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Optimum Growth and Carbon Policies with Lags in the Climate System

CER-ETH Center of Economic Research Working Paper 13/184
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 05 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 09 Feb 2017
Lucas Bretschger and Christos Karydas
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich and ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich
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Non-Renewable Resource Extraction, Climate Policy, Optimum Growth, Pollution Diffusion lag

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Globalization, the Volatility of Intermediate Goods Prices, and Economic Growth

WIF Institute of Economic Research Working Paper No. 05/40
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 13 Mar 2006
Thomas Michael Steger and Lucas Bretschger
University of Leipzig/Institute for Theoretical Economics/Macroeconomics and ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich
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Globalization, trade in intermediate goods, portfolio decisions, economic growth

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Complementarity between Labor and Energy: A Firm-Level Analysis

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Complementarity between Labor and Energy: A Firm-Level Analysis

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 27 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2022
Lucas Bretschger and Ara Jo
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich and University of Bath
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market-based regulation, employment, elasticity of substitution

Complementarity between Labor and Energy: A Firm-Level Analysis

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 03 Oct 2022
Lucas Bretschger and Ara Jo
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich and University of Bath
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market-based regulation, employment, elasticity of substitution

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Carbon Policy in a High-Growth Economy: The Case of China

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 16 Jul 2014
Lucas Bretschger and Lin Zhang
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich and City University of Hong Kong (CityU)
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Carbon policy, China, Endogenous growth, Induced innovation, Urbanization

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Taxes, Mobile Capital, and Economic Dynamics in a Globalising World

WIF Institute of Economic Research Working Paper No. 05/43
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 13 Mar 2006
Lucas Bretschger
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich
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Trade and Growth, Tax Competition, Capital Taxes

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Prices vs. Equity in International Climate Policy: A Broad Perspective

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 08 Feb 2015
Lucas Bretschger and Janick Mollet
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich and ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich
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Climate change policy, greenhouse gas emissions, uniform carbon tax, equity principles

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International Trade and Net Investment: Theory and Evidence

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 08 Apr 2011
Simone Valente and Lucas Bretschger
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich
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International Trade, Natural Resources, Net Investment, Sustainability, Technological Progress

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Carbon Pricing, Technology Transition, and Skill-Based Development

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 05 Feb 2018
Kirill Borissov, Lucas Bretschger and Alexandra Vinogradova
European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP), ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich and ETH Zürich
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Carbon pricing, education, clean and dirty technologies, temporary policies

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Is the Environment Compatible with Growth? Adopting An Integrated Framework

CER-ETH – Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich, Working Paper no 16/260
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 10 Oct 2016
Lucas Bretschger
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich
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Natural environment, endogenous growth, multisector model, poor substitution, population growth

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Sectoral Heterogeneity, Resource Depletion, and Directed Technical Change: Theory and Policy

CER-ETH Working Paper No. 08/96
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 23 Sep 2008
Karen Pittel and Lucas Bretschger
ETH Zürich - Department of Management, Technology, and Economics (D-MTEC) and ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich
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sustainable development, sectoral heterogeneity, directed technical change

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As Bad as it Gets: How Climate Damage Functions Affect Growth and the Social Cost of Carbon

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 04 Oct 2017
Lucas Bretschger and Aimilia Pattakou
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich and ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich
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Climate damages, social cost of carbon, endogenous growth, polynomial functions

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Optimal Carbon Policies in a Dynamic Heterogenous World

CER-ETH – Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich, Working Paper 18/297, October, 2018
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 02 Nov 2018
Kirill Borissov and Lucas Bretschger
European University at St. Petersburg (EUSP) and ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich
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climate policy, growth, abatement efficiency, policy convergence

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The Implications of Heterogeneous Resource Intensities on Technical Change and Growth

CER-ETH Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich, Working paper No. 09/120
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 27 Oct 2009
Karen Pittel and Lucas Bretschger
ETH Zürich - Department of Management, Technology, and Economics (D-MTEC) and ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich
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sustainable development, sectoral heterogeneity, directed technical change

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Dirty History Versus Clean Expectations: Can Energy Policies Provide Momentum for Growth?

CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich, Working Paper 16/250
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 03 Jun 2016
Lucas Bretschger and Andreas Schaefer
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich and University of Leipzig
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clean production, multiple equilibria, history vs. expectations, energy transformation, endogenous markups

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Equitable and Effective Climate Policy: Integrating Less Developed Countries into a Global Climate Agreement

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 16 Jun 2015
Lucas Bretschger and Alexandra Vinogradova
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich and ETH Zürich
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Climate policy, less developed countries, equitable burden sharing, right to development, international climate agreement

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Use Less, Pay More: Can Climate Policy Address the Unfortunate Event for Being Poor?

CER-ETH – Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich- Economics Working Paper Series Working Paper 12/166
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 30 Aug 2012
Lucas Bretschger and Nujin Suphaphiphat
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich and ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich
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Climate Policy, development aid, endogenous, growth, stock pollution

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International Resource Tax Policies Beyond Rent Extraction

CER-ETH Center of Economic Research Working Paper 13/185
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 05 Nov 2013
Lucas Bretschger and Simone Valente
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
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F43, O40.

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Preservation of Agricultural Soils with Endogenous Stochastic Degradation

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 02 Mar 2016
Lucas Bretschger and Alexandra Vinogradova
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich and ETH Zürich
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Soil conservation, stochastic degradation, agriculture, environment, uncertainty, natural disasters

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Equity and the Convergence of Nationally Determined Climate Policies

CER-ETH – Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich Working Paper 16/246
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 20 May 2016
Lucas Bretschger
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich
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Climate policy, equity, climate agreements, social welfare

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Existence of Equilibria in Exhaustible Resource Markets with Economies of Scale and Inventories

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 24 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 19 Jan 2015
Antoine Bommier, Lucas Bretschger and Francois Le Grand
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich, ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich and ESC Rennes School of Business
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Exhaustible resources, nonconvex extraction cost, equilibrium existence, resource storage.

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Productivity Gaps and Tax Policies Under Asymmetric Trade

CER-ETH – Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich, Working Paper 16/239
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 22 Mar 2016
Lucas Bretschger and Simone Valente
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
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Productivity Gaps, Endogenous Growth, International Trade, Tax Policy

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Exiting the Fossil World: The Effects of Fuel Taxation in the UK

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 11 Dec 2023
Lucas Bretschger and Elise Grieg
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Fuel tax, synthetic control method, climate policy, transport, level and growth effects.

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Green Road is Open: Economic Pathway with a Carbon Price Escalator

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 24 Apr 2023
Lucas Bretschger
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich
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Climate policies, consumption growth, population growth, endogenous innovation, economic pathways.

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Nature and the Ultimate Resource: Sustainability with Poor Input Substitution

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 29 May 2024
Lucas Bretschger
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich
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Poor input substitution, population growth, sustainable development, ecology tipping.

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Is the Environment Compatible with Growth? Adopting an Integrated Framework for Sustainability

Annual Review of Resource Economics, Vol. 9, Issue 1, pp. 185-207, 2017
Posted: 27 Oct 2017
Lucas Bretschger
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich

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The Dynamics of Economic Integration: Theory and Policy

International Economics and Economic Policy, Vol. 1, No. 2-3, 2004
Posted: 10 Aug 2010
Lucas Bretschger and Thomas Michael Steger
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich and University of Leipzig/Institute for Theoretical Economics/Macroeconomics

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International trade, economic integration, economic growth, scale effects, factor reallocation

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Taking Two Steps to Climb Onto the Stage: Capital Taxes as Link between Trade and Growth

University of Greifswald Working Paper No. 05/01
Posted: 29 Jul 2001
Lucas Bretschger
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich

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Trade and Growth, Tax Competition, OECD Countries

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Knowledge Diffusion and the Development of Regions

Posted: 09 Sep 1999
Lucas Bretschger
ETH Zürich - CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich

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