Is Democracy Good for the Environment? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Regime Transitions
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- Laura Policardo, 2010. "Is Democracy Good for the Environment? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Regime Transitions," Department of Economics University of Siena 605, Department of Economics, University of Siena.
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Democracy; Environment; Cointegration; Interrupted time series; Segmented regression;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
- Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy
- Q51 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Valuation of Environmental Effects
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