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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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dc.contributor.authorHanley, Nicholas David
dc.contributor.authorOxley, Les
dc.contributor.authorGreasley, David
dc.contributor.authorMcLaughlin, Eoin
dc.contributor.authorBlum, Matthias
dc.date.accessioned2016-06-17T23:32:43Z
dc.date.available2016-06-17T23:32:43Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationHanley , N D , Oxley , L , Greasley , D , McLaughlin , E & 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 , vol. In press . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-015-9928-7en
dc.identifier.issn0924-6460
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 194821906
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 97114fc8-1008-46c1-a984-01bb4791676e
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 84957840382
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000369314800006
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/9012
dc.descriptionThe authors thank The Leverhulme Trust for funding this work under the project “History and the Future: the Predictive Power of Sustainable Development Indicators” (Grant Number F00241).en
dc.description.abstractGenuine Savings has emerged as a widely-used indicator of sustainable development. This approach to conceptualising sustainability 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 consumption 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 consumption, and fail to reject the underlying basic theoretical result on the relationship between these two macroeconomic variables. These findings provide some support for the GS measure of weak sustainability.
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofEnvironmental and Resource Economicsen
dc.rights© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10640-015-9928-7en
dc.subjectWeak sustainabilityen
dc.subjectGenuine Savingsen
dc.subjectComprehensive investmenten
dc.subjectEconomic historyen
dc.subjectSustainable development indicatorsen
dc.subjectCointegrationen
dc.subjectHB Economic Theoryen
dc.subject3rd-DASen
dc.subject.lccHBen
dc.titleEmpirical testing of Genuine Savings as an indicator of weak sustainability : a three-country analysis of long-run trendsen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPostprinten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Geography & Sustainable Developmenten
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-015-9928-7
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.date.embargoedUntil2016-06-18
dc.identifier.urlhttp://link.springer.com/content/esm/art:10.1007/s10640-015-9928-7/file/MediaObjects/10640_2015_9928_MOESM1_ESM.docxen


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