The Micro-foundations of the Environmental Kuznets Curve  

作　　者：Shiguo Ma Lei Shi 

机构地区：[1]School of Business, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road,Shanghai 200237, China [2]School of Economics, Fudan University, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai 200433, China

出　　处：《Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences》2014年第3期471-482,共12页复旦人文社会科学论丛（英文版）

基　　金：We thank the two anonymous referees, the editors, and Youping Li for helpful comments and suggestions. This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China （71273092）, the Humanity and Social Science Foundation of Ministry of Education of China （10YJCZH108）, and the Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities of China.

摘　　要：This paper presents a simple and straight-forward static model of the micro-foundations of the environmental Kuznets curve, in which the relationship between income and pollution depends on the relative magnitudes of the diminishing income-compensated price elasticity of environmental amenity and increasing marginal propensity to earn environmental amenity out of non-environment income. The smaller the income-compensated price elasticity and the larger the marginal propensity to earn out of non-environment income, the earlier the turning point emerges. This key feature of our model generalizes the specific features of many existing models and generates many of their implications.

关 键 词：Environmental Kuznets curve Economic growth Environmental amenity POLLUTION 

分 类 号：F126.1[经济管理—世界经济] X196[环境科学与工程—环境科学]