Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/171483 
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Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
Economics Working Paper Series No. 05/39
Publisher: 
ETH Zurich, CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research, Zurich
Abstract: 
Models of the Environmental Kuznets Curve, particularly those with an ex- plicit abatement technology, often involve that pollution becomes negative in the long run. This, of course, is a highly implausible prediction. The paper at hand examines the problem of negative pollution by, ¯rst, critically discussing two approaches adopted in existing EKC models and, second, by proposing a new approach. Motivated by the debatable assumption of perpetually increas- ing returns to scale in abatement, the idea of fading increasing returns to scale is introduced. This procedure does not only constitute a solution to the theo- retical problem of negative pollution, but also does well regarding the empirical plausibility of the abatement technology.
Subjects: 
environmental Kuznets curve
negative pollution
abatement technology
increasing returns to scale
JEL: 
Q2
Q5
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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