that the influence of environment on optimal growth in the long-run may be explained by the detrimental effect of pollution … on life expectancy. It also shows that, in such a case, greener preferences are growth- and welfare-improving even if the …

(both the size and the “direction”) on the long-run growth driven by human capital accumulation à la Lucas (1988), when the …. decreases) the BGP rate of growth. When abatement services are produced with the final output, the environmental taxation does … not influence growth. …

used in the abatement sector determines the existence and the direction of the growth-effect. A tighter environmental tax …

We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a dynamic model of endogenous urban growth with two sectors of … equilibrium, compared to the efficient urbanization path, if economic growth implies increasing aggregate emissions. If, on the … other hand, production becomes cleaner over time (`quality growth') the urbanization path approximates the efficient outcome …

, which are one of the keys to the growth process: the economy can be discontinuously innovation-oriented due to the different …