Recent studies consider public R&D spending that affects abatement knowledge and endogenous growth, distortionary taxes that affect capital formation, pollution taxes that affect environmental degradation, and regeneration that restores natural capital. Our model combines all those elements. The...

Pollution taxes are believed to burden low-income households that spend a greater than average share of income on pollution-intensive goods. Some proposals offset that effect by returning revenue to low-income workers via reduced labor tax. We build analytical general equilibrium models with...