We revisit the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) argument that an economy could pollute and develop at first and reduce pollution as income continues to grow. We propose a dynamic structural model to capture the interaction between economic growth, human capital accumulation, environmental...

We revisit the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) argument that an economy could initially develop in a polluting way and then environmental quality would improve after income grows over a threshold. We propose a dynamic model to capture the interaction among economic growth, human capital...

Many studies have examined corruption’s effect upon economic growth. This study takes a different approach and investigates whether anticorruption campaigns might also lower economic growth, at least in the short run. We focus upon the anticorruption campaigns run by the Communist Party of...