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 …

"environmental" output tax levied on the polluting firm's output, as well as the effect of government spending on pollution abatement … over the cycle. In particular, a positive shock to pollution emission in the model works like a positive technological …, but less so along the environmental dimension, so more research is needed to understand the aggregate effects of pollution. …

. Pushing back against this narrative of deforestation, Ian Miller charts the rise of timber plantations between about 1000 and …

pollution becomes negative in the long run. This, of course, is a highly implausible prediction. The paper at hand examines the … problem of negative pollution by, first, critically discussing two approaches adopted in existing EKC models and, second, by … theoretical problem of negative pollution, but also does well regarding the empirical plausibility of the abatement technology. …