North and South. Instrumental variables estimates show that social capital affects growth both directly and through … growth in the Italian regions. …

, which are one of the keys to the growth process: the economy can be discontinuously innovation-oriented due to the different …

political economy perspective. We consider an endogenous growth economy, where growth generates pollution and a deterioration of … the environment. Public expenditures may either be devoted to supporting growth or abating pollution. The decision over …, the less she will tax and devote resources to the environment, preferring to support growth. …

elucidate part of the resource curse hypothesis; i.e. the observed negative impact of resource wealth on income growth. We … develop a variation of the Ramsey-Cass-Koopmans model with endogenous growth to explain the phenomenon. In this model … show that an increase in resource income frustrates economic growth in two ways: directly by reducing work effort and …

We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a dynamic model of endogenous urban growth with two sectors of … equilibrium, compared to the efficient urbanization path, if economic growth implies increasing aggregate emissions. If, on the … other hand, production becomes cleaner over time (`quality growth') the urbanization path approximates the efficient outcome …

This article demonstrates that when finite lifetime is introduced in a Lucas (1988) growth model, the environmental … policy may enhance growth both in the short- and the long-run, while pollution does not influence educational activities … appearance of newborns at each date creates a turnover of generations which disconnects the aggregate consumption growth to the …

Since its first inception in the debate on the relationship between environment and growth in 1992, the Environmental …

material balance principles and relying too much on planner solutions to obtain long-term growth. By analysing a multi-sector R …&D-based endogenous growth model with exhaustible natural resources, labour, knowledge, and physical capital as inputs, the present paper … addresses this critique. We study transitional dynamics and the long-term growth path and identify conditions under which firms …