The relationship between per capita income and a number of pollution indicators has been found to display an inverted U-shaped or downward-sloping pattern. Corruption may affect this relationship in two distinct ways: by raising pollution at given income levels (direct effect) and by reducing...

Environmental economics passed its age of infancy. It grew rapidly over the last decades and established itself as a discipline based on the powerful economic paradigm and reaching beyond it to capture important economy-environment interactions. The view offered here on the future of...

The basic focus of this paper is to look at ecological tax reform from a public good perspective rather than from a Pigouvian externality cum tax reform perspective. Our point of departure is the insight, aptly expressed by Heller and Starrett (1976, p. l 0), e. g., that "one can think of...

This paper analyzes nature protection by a social planner under different "utilitarian" social welfare functions. For that purpose we construct an integrated model of the economy and the ecosystem with explicit consideration of nonhuman species and with competition between human and nonhuman...

Optimal intertemporal pollution control with irreversibilities is investigated under conditions of certainty and uncertainty. When the assimilative capacity is positive, irreversible pollution levels are shown to be optimal only if the social time preference is sufficiently high. The...

This paper investigates the repercussions of noncooperative national environmental policies on international capital investments in the absence of transfrontier pollution with an emphasis on the consequences of removing the barriers to international capital transactions. Such repercussions are...