This paper examines the effects of environmental taxation on long-run growth in an infinitely lived representative agent model of endogenous growth with negative pollution externalities. The novelty of this paper lies in its investigation of how the long-run effects of environmental taxes are...

This paper introduces consumption externalities into one of the base line models of growth in which continuing expansion of product variety sustains long-term growth. We assume that consumers set a benchmark stock of consumption for each good so that there are commodity-specific external...