degradation increases in the early stages of growth, but it eventually decreases as income exceeds a threshold level. The present …

We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a dynamic model of endogenous urban growth with two sectors of … production. Production exhibits increasing returns to scale on aggregate. Urban environmental pollution, as a force that … equilibrium, compared to the efficient urbanization path, if economic growth implies increasing aggregate emissions. If, on the …

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 … ability of the agents to learn is independent to pollution and utility is additively separable. Finally, it establishes that …

effect on growth in the steady-state when the detrimental impact of pollution on health and lifetime is taken into account …This article investigates the influence of environmental policy on growth assuming that the channel of transmission … relies on the link between pollution, health and the survival probability, in an overlapping generations model à la Blanchard …

Data on the growth performances of countries with similar comparative (dis)advantage and political institutions reveal … a striking variation across world regions. While some former autocracies such as the East Asian growth miracles have …

to innovate (if at all) in manufacturing and services. Locations can trade subject to transport costs and technology … diffuses spatially across locations. The result is an endogenous growth theory that can shed light on the link between the …

sensitive to pollution, the weight of health in preferences is high, the polluting capacity of the production technology is high … taxation and the economic activity (level- and growth-output) becomes inverted-U shaped, when the detrimental impact of … pollution on health and the private decision of each working-age agent to improve her health are taken into account. Especially …

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 …