Environmental quality along the process of economic growth: a theoretical reappraisal

Maxime Menuet, Alexandru Minea, Patrick Villieu and Anastasios Xepapadeas

Economic Theory, 2024, vol. 77, issue 4, No 10, 1219-1258

Abstract: Abstract This paper studies the dual interaction between economic growth and environmental quality in an endogenous growth model. We exhibit multiple equilibria and complex local and global dynamics, resulting in potential indeterminacy, hysteresis effects, or long-lasting growth and environmental cycles. From a policy perspective, we reveal that changes in the environmental policy should be handled with care, as they may generate aggregate instability or condemn the economy to an environmental poverty trap associated with a possible irreversibility of environmental degradation. Lastly, our analysis provides a reassessment of pollution taxes, which are found to improve long-run economic growth when the model is well-determined, but reduce it in the presence of indeterminacy.

Keywords: Economic growth; Environmental quality; Pollution; Poverty traps; Endogenous cycles; Pollution taxes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 O44 Q50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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