Preserving environmental quality and addressing economic inequality both feature prominently in public discourse … consider interactions with the other. We synthesize theoretical mechanisms that underpin inequality-environment interlinkages … distribution of environmental amenities and dis-amenities is associated with income and wealth, second, how economic inequality …

We describe a "business as usual" (BAU) economy in which pollution is a by-product of productive activity by the … pollution abatement and finances it via distorting taxes and borrowing on perfect international markets. Pollution levels start … pay off the debt, that too, in finite time. Along the transition, every generation faces less pollution, consumes more and …

in a continuous-time dynamic growth model featuring optimizing households and firms. Environmental quality is modelled as … for environmental pollution when holding firm equity, they require a premium on the return to equity. We show that … public abatement policies. -- Socially responsible investment ; economic growth ; environmental economics ; resource dynamics …

We study optimal pollution abatement under a mixed oligopoly game when firms engage in emissions-reducing R&D that is … certain conditions, the optimal pollution tax is positive; otherwise, the tax reverts to a subsidy. Comparing mixed and …

slower along the SO balanced growth path (BGP) than along the LF BGP, while people's well-being is greater along the former …. Therefore, green policies driving the economy along its OP tend to reduce GDP growth. Under the second hypothesis, LF may lead … to a "climate catastrophe" by determining unbounded growth, which - without incentives to invest in green technology …

evidence that power plants spend less in water pollution abatement if the governor of the state where the plant is located is a … leads to increased pollution. …

We scrutinize Thomas Piketty's (2014) theory concerning the relationship between an economy's long-run growth rate, its … of Piketty's Second Fundamental Law of Capitalism does not hold. In line with Piketty's theory a smaller long-run growth …, both the economy's savings rate and its growth rate are endogenous variables whereas in Piketty's theory they are both …

growth regimes. This is shown in an overlapping generations model with two-period lived individuals endowed with Boppart …-Krusell preferences (Boppart and Krusell (2020)). On the supply side, economic growth is due to the expansion of consumption … may fluctuate between two growth regimes, one with and the other without an active research sector. Fluctuations affect …

We develop a simple model of managing a system subject to pollution damage under risk of an abrupt and random jump in …. -- environmental pollution ; optimal management ; catastrophic transitions ; uncertainty ; adaptation ; mitigation …