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 …. Using cross section data for several indicators of pollution, the paper estimates the direct and the indirect effect of …

Production often causes pollution as a by-product. Once pollution problems become too severe, regulation is introduced … and decline of pollution can be explained by policyinduced technology shifts. …

potential explana- tion of an N-shaped pollution-income relation. Finally, it is shown that the model is compatible with most …

relies on the link between pollution, health and the survival probability, in an overlapping generations model à la Blanchard … effect on growth in the steady-state when the detrimental impact of pollution on health and lifetime is taken into account … of environmental taxes) when public expenditures in health and/or the impact of pollution on health are important …

work when they are young and own capital when they are old. Pollution externalities are present due to the use of a … polluting factor. The government uses the revenue from a capital-income tax and a pollution tax for a lump-sum transfer to the …-economic equilibrium, the lower the skill of the median individual is relative to the average, the smaller the pollution tax and the …