Green technical innovation, environmental expenditure, and the environmental Kuznets curve: a dynamic s model

(整期优先)网络出版时间:2008-01-11
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Therelationshipbetweentheemissionofpollutantandeconomicgrowthhasattractedalotofattentionintheenvironmentaldebateoftherecentdecades.BasedonsometheoreticalandempiricalresearchonenvironmentalKuznetscurve(EKC),thispaperintroducestheenvironmentaltechnicalinnovationandenvironmentalinvestmentintoSolowgrowthmodeltodiscusstherelationshipbetweenGDPpercapitalandtheemissionofpollutant.Bythedynamicsimulationandparametersanalysis,theresultsofthemodelindicate:(1)when'green'technicalprogressandenvironmentalinvestmentarefixed,therelationshipbetweenGDPpercapitalandtheemissionshowsthelinearrelationship;(2)'green'technicalprogresscanleadtothepositivegrowthrateswithadecreasinglevelofemis-sion,whichiscompatiblewithanEKC;(3)theproportionoftheenvironmentalinvestmentcanleadthedifferentgrowthratesandlevelofemission.Theseresultscanexplainthatdevelopingcountriesare'toopoortobegreen'.