Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/171511 
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Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Economics Working Paper Series No. 07/68
Publisher: 
ETH Zurich, CER-ETH - Center of Economic Research, Zurich
Abstract: 
This paper studies an endogenous growth model with human capital, exhaustible resources, and overlapping generations. Under laissez-faire, higher study time reduces depletion rates by increasing the share of re- sources that present generations are willing to sell to successors. However, selfish behavior may prevent competitive sustained growth, and implement- ing utilitarian allocations generally induces optimal-and-sustainable paths. It is shown that: (i) raising study time and decreasing resource depletion are always complementary targets in optimal policies; (ii) growth effects are stronger the lower the optimal share of exploited resources; (iii) gener- ational welfare gains from optimal policies are delayed by faster depletion and, contrary to intuition, anticipated by lower social discount rates.
Subjects: 
Endogenous Growth
Exhaustible Resources
Human Capital
Over- lapping Generations
Intergenerational Fairness
Sustainability
JEL: 
H30
Q01
Q20
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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