Environmental innovations heavily depend on government policies and consumers? behaviour. This paper addresses the issue of how these two factors interact in shaping the transition to a green technology. We extend models of technological selection with heterogeneous agents and learning by...

Within rich countries, a large dispersion in the capacity of generating environmental innovations appears correlated to the level of inequality. Previous works analyze the relationship between inequality and environmental quality in a static setting. This paper builds a dynamic model more...

This paper extends the out-of-equilibrium literature to analyse a structural transition characterized by the emergence of a new sector that satisfies a want lower in the hierarchical scale. In particular, the dynamic interaction demand-supply can be a source of multiple long-run outcomes if both...

Within rich countries, a large dispersion in the capacity of generating environmental innovations appears correlated to the level of inequality. Previous works analyse the relationship between inequality and environmental quality in a static setting. This paper builds a dynamic model more...

The present study investigates the relationship between land vulnerability to desertification and the evolution of the productive structure in Italy during the last fifty years (1960-2010). The objectives of the study are two-fold: (i) to present and discuss an original analysis of the...

The paper contributes to the debate on growth and distribution in a non-mainstream perspective. It looks at the role that capacity utilization plays in the process of growth under the hypothesis that the rate of capital depreciation is a function of the degree of capacity utilization. Our...

The paper focusses on the technological paradox. To analyze the possible temporary negative effect of an innovation we make use of a flow representation of production. Our aim is to show that such phenomenon can be justified by a simple property of the production process: in real time costs...

The paper focusses on the technological paradox. To analyze the possible temporary negative eect of an innovation, we make use of a ow representation of production. Our aim is to show that such phenomenon can be justied by a simple property of the production process: in real time costs strictly...