| 来源类型 | Working papers
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| DOI | 10.3929/ethz-a-005229395
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| A Kuznets curve for recycling |
| Pittel, Karen
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| 发表日期 | 2006-05
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| 出版者 | ETH Zurich, Center of Economic Research (CER-ETH)
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| 出版年 | 2006
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | The paper aims at extending the debate on Environmental Kuznets Curves to the case of non-renewable resources and to discuss the driving forces that might give rise to EKC's in this case. The paper at hand deviates from the standard EKC analysis in two ways: First, mostly EKC's are analyzed for flow variables. In this paper we argue that EKC's may very well arise for certain stock variables like minerals or waste. Second, most papers that provide a theoretical foundation for EKC's focus on assumptions like technological anomalies (e.g. increasing returns) or technological switches. We offer an alternative explanation by showing that EKC's might arise simply due to the combination of recycling and the rising scarcity of materials. It is shown that an EKC for non-renewables might emerge during the transition to the long-run balanced growth path. Whether or not an EKC arises depends e.g. on initial conditions, but also on preferences and technology. The assumptions made about the ability of recycling firms to internalize the interrelation between recycling decisions today and the future availability of recyclable waste matter with respect to the prerequisites for an EKC and the speed of convergence. Internalization furthermore implies that an economy can be caught in a poverty trap, i.e. it might not be able to converge to the long-run growth equilibrium if the initial endowment with resources and capital is too low. |
| 主题 | Non-renewable resources
; Recycling
; Transitional growth
; Environmental Kuznets Curve
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| URL | https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/handle/20.500.11850/2316
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Energy Policy and Economics (Switzerland)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/266643
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