Showing 1 - 10 of 16
is that the EKC is examined in the presence of pollution as a by product of consumption activities; also, pollution is a … environment, consumers do not consider directly pollution in the maximization problem and are assumed to choose between two … that substitution of dirty consumption with clean consumption alone is not sufficient to reduce environmental pollution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067514
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012711573
We examine whether the use of the environment, proxied by CO2 emissions, as a factor of production contributes, in addition to conventional factors of production to output growth, and thus it should be accounted for in total factor productivity growth (TFPG) measurement and deducted from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014051353
Over the last few years, environmental issues have entered into policy design, particularly development and growth policies. Natural resources are considered necessary production inputs and environmental quality is considered a welfare determinant. The integration of environmental issues into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012734166
The success of the Montreal Protocol in comparison to the stagnation seen in negotiations surrounding the Kyoto Protocol highlights the importance of a supportive industry group, pre-existing legislation and commitment by a lead nation, affordable and available substitutes, as well as acceptance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013047920
The standard approach to the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) holds that as a country develops and GDP per capita grows environmental degradation initially increases but eventually it reaches a turning point where environmental degradation begins to decline. Environmental degradation takes many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313523
environmental quality until the moment that pollution is great enough to make profitable the investment in R&D. After this turning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199264
The empirical finding of an inverse U-shaped relationship between per capita income and pollution, the so …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014201546
The analysis finds that in addition to U-shaped paths of environmental quality arising for growth in income per capita, growth in population can also produce socially efficient patterns that are U-shaped. Sufficient conditions for both types of paths are identified for a range of models and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014218277
relies on the link between pollution, health and the survival probability, in an overlapping generations model à la Blanchard … effect on growth in the steady-state when the detrimental impact of pollution on health and lifetime is taken into account … of environmental taxes) when public expenditures in health and/or the impact of pollution on health are important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014223126