The aim of this paper is to verify whether the historic sentence, no. 500/1999 of the Italian Legitimacy Court (Corte di Cassazione) in Plenary Session, may have contributed to diminishing bribery in Italy, by increasing the area of liability for both civil servants and the public...

In this short comment to the paper of Andreoni and Levinson (2001), we show that we are able to explain the shape of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) without considering to increasingreturns of scale in pollution abatement technology, but simply making explicit that the marginal disutility...

In this paper we use a modified Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans model to show that the inverse U-shaped income-pollution relationship may be explained through the declining behavior of the interest rate over time and as income grows. If the problem of the benevolent planner is to implement an environmental...

In this paper we attempt to evaluate the possible spill-over of the international agreement on Trade-Related aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs for short), underwritten in 1994, regarding economic growth for both wealthy and developing countries. We find that the TRIPs convention has...

In this paper we study both exhaustible and renewable resources in an endogenous growth model. In particular, we consider the hypotheses in which the rate of technical substitution (RTS) between those two inputs is or is not equal to one. Moreover, we depart from a basic theoretical framework to...

In this paper we have developed an endogenous growth model to deal with exhaustible resources and secondary materials together, under the assumptions that these two inputs are, or are not, technological perfect substitutes of each other, in order to compare the results obtained under both...

Using an endogenous growth model where the discount rate is a function of consumption, we show that the condition in which the elasticity of the marginal utility of consumption is greater than one ensures, at the same time, the existence of an unique saddle point equilibrium and the maximization...