Pollution–income dynamics

Ramon Lopez and Sang Yoon

Economics Letters, 2014, vol. 124, issue 3, 504-507

Abstract: This paper integrates the scale, composition, and technique effects of economic growth on pollution using a multi-output endogenous growth framework. Under certain empirically verifiable parameter conditions economic growth is not sustainable, even under an optimal pollution tax.

Keywords: Environmental Kuznets curve; Elasticity of marginal utility; Elasticity of substitution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O1 Q2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2014.07.024

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