Economic Growth and the Environment with Clean and Dirty Consumption [PDF]
This paper aims to verify the existence of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) or inverted U-shaped relationship between economic growth and environmental degradation in the context of endogenous growth.
Carlo Orecchia +1 more
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Optimal Soil Management and Environmental Policy [PDF]
This paper studies the effects of environmental policy on the farmer’s soil optimal management. We consider a dynamic economic model of soil erosion where the intensity use of inputs allows the farmer to control soil losses. Therefore, inputs use induces
Gilles Lafforgue, Walid Oueslati
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Environmental fiscal policies might be ineffective to control pollution [PDF]
In a one sector growth model with pollution in the utility function, the competitive equilibrium can be indeterminate for plausible values of the intertemporal substitution elasticity of consumption and under constant returns to scale.
Esther Fernández +2 more
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Foreign Direct Investment and the Choice of Environmental Policy [PDF]
We use a simple two-country oligopoly model of intra-industry trade to examine the implications of foreign direct investment for the pollution haven hypothesis and environmental policy. Countries which lower environmental standards to be more competitive
Halis Murat Yildiz +2 more
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NORWEGIAN SALMON AQUACULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY AND INDUSTRY GROWTH [PDF]
This paper discusses the relationship between industry growth and environmental quality in the context of salmon aquaculture. It is argued that industry growth can reduce pollution by inducing more technological innovations for industry-specific ...
Tveteras, Sigbjorn
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Unravelling the Worldwide Pollution Haven Effect [PDF]
This paper tackles the “pollution haven” argument by estimating the pollution content of imports (PCI). The PCI is then decomposed into three components: (i) a “deep” component (i.e.
Jaime de Melo +2 more
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Pollution Abatement as a Source of Stabilisation and Long-Run Growth [PDF]
In a two-period overlapping generations model with production, we consider the damaging impact of environmental degradation on health and, consequently, life expectancy.
Dimitrios Varvarigos, Theodore Palivos
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Pollution Abatement in a Model of Capital Accumulation and Endogenous Longevity [PDF]
The effort to reduce pollution entails economic benefits because improved environmental quality advances the health status of the population and reduces mortality.
Dimitrios Varvarigos
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Endogenous Environmental Policy when Pollution is Transboundary [PDF]
We analyze the formation of environmental policy to regulate transboundary pollution if governments are self-interested. In a common agency framework, we portray the environmental policy calculus of two political supportmaximizing governments that are in
Guenther G. Schulze, Joachim Fuenfgelt
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Why paper mills clean up : determinants of pollution abatement in four Asian countries [PDF]
The authors find strong evidence that despite weak or nonexistent formal regulation and enforcement of environmental standards, many plants in South and Southeast Asia are clean. At the same time, many plants are among the world's worst polluters.
Hartman, Raymond S. +2 more
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