REAL Seminar
Friday, September 25, 2021 from 9-10 a.m.
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Rosa Duarte
Professor, Faculty of Economics and Business Studies, University of Zaragoza, Spain (rduarte@unizar.es)
"Household Consumption Patterns and Income Inequality in EU Countries: Scenario Analysis for a Fair Transition Towards Low-Carbon Economies"
The growing awareness of the current and future consequences of climate change has led to a range of international commitments aimed at ensuring sustainable development as part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the Paris Agreement. On the other hand, inequality continues to be a significant concern, reflected in the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. In this context, we explore the relationships between household consumption patterns in the EU, income inequality, and global carbon emissions trends, using an environmentally extended multiregional and multisectoral input-output model. We study the trends in global carbon emissions associated with the different household consumption patterns and income categories over 15 years, and evaluate the role of income distribution, consumption patterns, and technological conditions by country and income group.
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Simone Grabner
Ph.D. Student, Graduate Program in Regionl Science and Economic Geography, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy (simone.maria.grabner@gmail.com)
"Interregional Input-Output Linkages and Relatedness as Drivers of Regional Diversification: Evidence from U.S. Counties"
This paper examines the role of interregional input-output linkages and relatedness on industrial diversification of U.S. counties between 1998 and 2017. The hypothesis is that flows of intermediate goods and services among regions are a vehicle for the diffusion of external capabilities, upon which regional economies can thrive and diversify. Interregional linkages may also relax the role of relatedness, as external knowledge is likely to be unfamiliar, which provides opportunities for new and unrelated recombinations. To proxy interregional input-output linkages of counties, we use a county centrality measure derived from the national input-output network. We find a positive relationship between county centrality and industrial diversification, where the latter is measured by the entry of new industry specializations. The results also show that the impact of relatedness is weakened, as if local industries are strategically interconnected within the whole input-output network. Interregional linkages via local industries that are prominently positioned within the national production system appear to stimulate regional diversification in general and unrelated diversification in particular.
