(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. …

diffuses spatially across locations. The result is an endogenous growth theory that can shed light on the link between the …

between political stability and economic growth which is stronger and empirically more robust in countries with high … bureaucratic costs. Motivated by these results, which contrast with previous contributions, we develop a model of growth with … between the probability that the incumbent politician remains in office and average economic growth in the presence of high …

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

elucidate part of the resource curse hypothesis; i.e. the observed negative impact of resource wealth on income growth. We … develop a variation of the Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans model with endogenous growth to explain the phenomenon. In this model … show that an increase in resource income frustrates economic growth in two ways: directly by reducing work effort and …

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 …