Part I: Economic and Environmental Aspects of Conservation Capital -- Chapter 1. The Role of Conservation Capital in Developing Economies: A Static General Equilibrium Analysis with Dynamics (Tonmoy Chatterjee) -- Chapter 2. Generating Appropriate Policies to Minimize Environmental Pollution in...

Total pollution emitted by U.S. manufacturers declined over the past 30 years by about 60 percent, even though real manufacturing output increased 70 percent. This improvement must result from a combination of two trends: (1) changes in production or abatement processes ("technology"); or (2)...

In this paper we build up the analysis of La Porta et al. (1998), to investigate the importance of legal families in explaining the variations in pollution emissions in different countries. The main intuition behind our analysis is that the nations in which the rights of shareholders are more...