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 ("carbon") tax on polluting production, 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 shock, but its … effect is quantitatively very small. Allowing for pollution as a by-product of production improves the model performance …