The Green-MKS system: A baseline environmental macro-dynamic model

Marwil J. Davila-Fernandez () and Serena Sordi

Department of Economics University of Siena from Department of Economics, University of Siena

Abstract: This paper extends the Marx-Keynes-Schumpeter model in Flaschel (2015) to study the social dimension of climate change. Agents are divided between those supporting and those opposing taxing Green House Gas (GHG) emissions. The composition of the population varies according to a continuous-time version of the discrete-choice approach. Conditional to the level of interaction between players, society chooses the respective tax rate. Higher taxes reduce capital accumulation but support the development of energy-saving production techniques. Output growth and employment rates will be higher or lower depending on which effect prevails. A certain level of economic activity generates GHG emissions and determines the employment rate, which, in turn, endogenously feedback on environmental sentiments. Lower emissions reinforce sustainable attitudes while falling employment increases households’ concerns with more “urgent” needs, decreasing support for taxation. Hence, the model is compatible with a positive relationship between environmental attitudes and energy efficiency but not a clear association with output. A sufficiently strong response of sentiments to emissions combined with partially autonomous pollution regulation may lead to the disappearance of the equilibrium in which most agents oppose taxation, controlling for multistability. By applying the existence part of the Hopf bifurcation theorem, we show that our 3-dimension system admits endogenous persistent and bounded fluctuations, representing the interaction between green attitudes and growth-cycle dynamics

Keywords: Sustainable development; Heterogeneous agents; Hopf bifurcation. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C63 O11 O44 Q57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-10
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