endogenous growth model. Individuals take only part of their impact on pollution into account, hence there is a negative … externality of capital accumulation on environmental quality. Increasing wealth or increasing pollution enhance green attitude and … reduce the externality, because individuals care more about the environment if their income is higher or if pollution is more …

In a research-driven endogenous growth model, a non-renewable resource gives rise to pollution. Consumption may either … grow or decline along the optimal balanced growth path, but the (flow) pollution level necessarily diminishes continuously … time, a growth-enhancing government policy may improve long-run environmental conditions. The pollution externality does …

the new technology may turn out to generate a new pollution problem. R&D may therefore be optimally undertaken more than … the optimal pollution and R&D policies. The optimal R&D program is strictly sequential and has an endogenous stopping …

Physically, pollution occurs because it is virtually impossible to have a productive process that involves no waste …; economically, pollution occurs because polluting is less expensive than operating cleanly. This chapter explores the sources and … consequences of, and remedies for, pollution and associated environmental damages. If all goods had well-defined property rights …