Environmental Quality and Economic Development

This dissertation contributes to the construction of a theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between environmental quality and economic development. In pursue of this goal, I specialize to dynamic growth models in which pollution is treated as an externality generated in the production sector and affecting the consumption sector. I consider the transitional dynamics and the steady state of not only the typical nations that start their development with a small stock of capital and a large stock of the environment, but also an important group of developing economies where the opposite seems to be true, namely the transition economies of the post Soviet era. Furthermore, I explore the role of different forms of technological heterogeneity across countries as a key determinant of the relationship between environmental quality and economic development.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Economics

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Chimeli, Ariaster Baumgratz

Contributors dc:contributor

• Braden, John B.

• Environmental Sciences

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3017044

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/85499