Production often causes pollution as a by-product. Once pollution problems become too severe, regulation is introduced … and decline of pollution can be explained by policyinduced technology shifts. …

In a research-driven endogenous growth model, a non-renewable resource gives rise to pollution. Consumption may either … grow or decline along the optimal balanced growth path, but the (flow) pollution level necessarily diminishes continuously … time, a growth-enhancing government policy may improve long-run environmental conditions. The pollution externality does …

patent markets, knowledge spillovers are already internalized to a huge extent. For the output-induced pollution … welfare. However, for the capital-induced pollution specification, internalizing the knowledge spillovers goes hand in hand …

policy instruments in global pollution control and chapter 5 summarises the results on the formation of coalitions. Third … analysis are characterised. On the other hand, practical problems which are not covered by theory are mentioned and evaluated …