OURA Asuka   Faculty of Economics Department of Socio-Economics   Associate Professor

■ Title   Lethal Effects of Pollution and Economic Growth:Efficiency of Abatement Technology

■ Outline   The accumulation of pollution negatively impacts human health. Extreme increases in pollution, in particular, may have lethal implications for human beings, and, indeed, all living organisms. This paper thus devises a new model of economic growth that takes into account these lethal effects of accumulated pollution via a pollution threshold to show two key results. First, if an abatement technology is relatively inefficient, there exists a stationary steady state in which consumption and pollution stop growing. Second, if the abatement technology is sufficiently efficient, there exists a path along which pollution decreases at an accelerating rate until it finally reaches zero. In this case, consumption grows at a constant rate.   Asuka Oura, Yasukatsu Moridera, Koichi Futagami   Collaboration   The Japanese Economic Review   Springer   69(2),pp.189   2018/06

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