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  1. 1. The sustainability of China’s growth under extractive institutions

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Ulrika Theodora Blomstrand Andersen; [2018]
    Keywords : Economic growth; Institutions; Openness; China; India; Schumpeter; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates whether or not the Chinese growth is sustainable in the longer term. The two major economies China and India share several common features in terms of e.g. growth and size, as well as fundamental differences regarding factors such as institutions and politics. READ MORE

  3. 2. Economic growth: help or hinder for sustainability? : an investigation of perspectives on economic growth and sustainability within the Swedish environmental movement

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUCSUS

    Author : Hanna Bach; [2017]
    Keywords : environmental NGOs; meta-governance; sustainability science; Q-methodology; green think-tanks; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : There is a longstanding debate between environmentalists and economists regarding the possibility to combine economic growth and sustainability. So far, the neoliberal economists’ argumentation for a capitalist economic system with everlasting economic growth has been the dominating paradigm. READ MORE

  4. 3. Can Forecasting Performance of the Bayesian Factor-Augmented VAR be Improved by Considering the Steady-State? An application to Swedish inflation

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Andreas Lindvall; [2017]
    Keywords : Bayesian factor-augmented VAR; Steady-state; Inflation; Out-of-sample forecasting precision; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This paper investigates whether the forecasting performance of Bayesian factor-augmented VAR (BFAVAR) models can be improved by incorporating an informative prior on the steady-state of the time series in the system. The BFAVAR model is compared to the extended steady-state BFAVAR in an application to forecasting Swedish inflation, making use of data from 1996 to 2016. READ MORE

  5. 4. The economic impact of wolves on the moose harvest in Sweden

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Economics

    Author : Lea Eggemann; [2015]
    Keywords : habitat factor; harvest; marginal impact; moose hunt; production function approach; wolf predation;

    Abstract : In Sweden hunters and wolves both have an interest in hunting moose. This thesis is therefore a contribution to the current carnivore-game conflict resulting from this interest. The use of a production function approach is applied in order to value the impact of wolves on hunting values. READ MORE

  6. 5. Sustainable Economies: The Case of Turkish Economy within Steady-State Economies

    University essay from Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Evrim Demirel; [2012]
    Keywords : sustainable development; ecological economics; steady-state economics; sustainable economies;

    Abstract : The main aim of this paper is to reveal if development and current state of the Turkish Economy are sustainable. Instead of the research tools offered in environmental economics, the holistic approach of ecological economics is used to answer this question. READ MORE