Greenhouse Gas Mitigation and Price-driven Growth in a Baumol-Solow-Swan Economy

Michael Burda and Leopold Zessner-Spitzenberg

No 17368, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: The existence of an environmental limit changes fundamentally the nature of economic growth. When atmospheric greenhouse gases reach a predetermined absolute threshold, further growth requires a permanently expanding, resource-intensive mitigation effort. We incorporate anthropogenic climate change and its mitigation into the Solow-Swan growth model and show that if the rate of technical progress in mitigation fails to exceed a critical value, the economy behaves as described by Baumol (1967). Economic growth in this regime is then driven by technological progress in mitigation and the dynamics of its relative price. Even in the extreme case that long-run growth of produced output converges to zero, the growth rate of GDP measured in terms of produced goods does not.

Keywords: Solow-swan growth model; Baumol model; Anthropogenic climate change; Mitigation; Price-driven economic growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O44 Q01 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-06
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