A tale of two elasticities: A general theoretical framework for the environmental Kuznets curve analysis

Eugenio Figueroa () and Roberto Pasten

Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 119, issue 1, 85-88

Abstract: We show that a variety of seemingly diverse concepts used to theoretically explaining the EKC have a common origin in two key preference and production elasticities. We also prove that they jointly correspond to a unique, underlying preference-technology theoretical framework.

Keywords: Environmental Kuznets curve; Income-elasticity of marginal utility; Elasticity of substitution between factors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O1 Q2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.01.019

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