material balance principles and relying too much on planner solutions to obtain long-term growth. By analysing a multi-sector R …&D-based endogenous growth model with exhaustible natural resources, labour, knowledge, and physical capital as inputs, the present paper … addresses this critique. We study transitional dynamics and the long-term growth path and identify conditions under which firms …

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 …

option? To answer this question, we have compared the relative growth performance of 14 “tourism countries” within a sample … of 143 countries, observed during the period 1980-95. Using standard OLS cross-country growth regressions, we have … other words, the positive performance of the tourism countries is not significantly accounted for by the traditional growth …

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 …

This article investigates the influence of environmental policy on growth assuming that the channel of transmission … (1985) where growth is driven by a mechanism à la Romer (1986). We demonstrate that environmental policy has an ambiguous … effect on growth in the steady-state when the detrimental impact of pollution on health and lifetime is taken into account …

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 …

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

main international indices (Domini 400 Social Index, Dow Jones Sustainability World Index, FTSE4Good Index), in order to …