that the influence of environment on optimal growth in the long-run may be explained by the detrimental effect of pollution … on life expectancy. It also shows that, in such a case, greener preferences are growth- and welfare-improving even if the … ability of the agents to learn is independent to pollution and utility is additively separable. Finally, it establishes that …

will give them a comparative advantage in pollution-intensive goods. Using single equation models, existing empirical … incorporating the effects of openness on growth of income, and of income growth on environmental damage. A two-good trade model with … endogenous factor supply is estimated using pooled provincial data on Chinese water pollution from 1987-1995. Estimation of this …

mitigates it via income growth. Simulations suggest that the net effect in China was beneficial … pollution-intensive goods. Thus, freer trade will harm their environment. This paper brings together the literature on openness … and growth, and on the environmental Kuznet's curve, to demonstrate that the opposite may be true. A simultaneous …

the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC), stating that environmental pollution follows an inverted u-shaped course with … levels of pollution, our estimates imply that complexity may even exacerbate environmental issues in the short and middle run …

The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) introduces an inverted U-shaped relationship between environmental pollution and …

The paper studies the effect of public transport policies on urban pollution. It uses a quantitative equilibrium model … with residential choice and mode choice. Pollution comes from commuting and residential energy use. The model parameters … transport coupled with increasing transit speed affects the equilibrium. In the baseline simulation, total pollution falls by 0 …