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    Empirical Testing of Genuine Savings as an Indicator of Weak Sustainability: A Three-Country Analysis of Long-Run Trends

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    Authors
    Hanley, N.
    Oxley, Leslie
    Greasley, D.
    McLaughlin, E.
    Blum, M.
    Date
    2015
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Hanley, N. and Oxley, L. and Greasley, D. and McLaughlin, E. and Blum, M. 2015. Empirical Testing of Genuine Savings as an Indicator of Weak Sustainability: A Three-Country Analysis of Long-Run Trends. Environmental and Resource Economics. 63 (2): pp. 313-338.
    Source Title
    Environmental and Resource Economics
    DOI
    10.1007/s10640-015-9928-7
    ISSN
    0924-6460
    School
    School of Economics and Finance
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/36204
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    Abstract

    © 2015 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Genuine Savings has emerged as a widely-used indicator of sustainable development. This approach to conceptualising what sustainability is about has strong links to work published by Anil Markandya and colleagues over 20 years ago. In this paper, we use long-term data stretching back to 1870 to undertake empirical tests of the relationship between Genuine Savings (GS) and future well-being for three countries: Britain, the USA and Germany. Our tests are based on an underlying theoretical relationship between GS and changes in the present value of future consumption. Based on both single country and panel results, we find evidence supporting the existence of a cointegrating (long run equilibrium) relationship between GS and future well-being, and fail to reject the basic theoretical result on the relationship between these two macroeconomic variables. This provides some support for the GS measure of weak sustainability.

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