کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
985520 1480680 2015 12 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Beyond additive preferences: Economic behavior and the income pollution path
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
فراتر از تنظیمات افزودنی: رفتار اقتصادی و مسیر آلودگی درآمد
کلمات کلیدی
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه مهندسی انرژی انرژی (عمومی)
چکیده انگلیسی


• We propose a theoretical model to explain the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC).
• The model does not rely on additive preferences.
• The elasticity of substitution and relative scarcity explain the EKC.
• Substitution relates to two concepts of elasticity of marginal utility.
• This model has behavioral content.

Theoretical models of the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) almost universally assume additive preferences; we demonstrate that under non-additive preferences the sufficient condition to sign the economy's income-pollution path depends on the elasticity of substitution between consumption and environment (and not on the elasticity of marginal utility of consumption). The proposed model provides behavioral content that has been missed in the existing literature. In the model, and also departing from the previous literature, preferences change and evolve (through a variable elasticity of substitution) according to the relative scarcity of the environment.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Resource and Energy Economics - Volume 41, August 2015, Pages 91–102
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