This paper analyses policy measures within a two sector endogenously growing economy with pollution. Pollution is either generated by production or by the use of physical capital in production, and can be reduced by public abatement activities. In this generalized Uzawa Lucas model, the effects...

National authorities are presently not willing to install a supranational authority vested with the competencies required to internalize global environmental externalities. Therefore we adopt a dynamic framework of two economies (i.e. Europe and rest of world) and analyze their strategic...

This paper analyses the consequences of tightening environmental policy for economic growth. To find out how the new balanced growth path is reached in the long run, we simulate numerically for the short and medium term the transition path of a change in environmental policy within an endogenous...

This paper analyses tax policy measures within a two sector endogenously growing economy with elastic labour supply. Pollution is modelled as a side product of physical capital stock used as a primary production factor in the final good sector. The framework allows to analyse consequences of...