caa a22 4500 445854588 CHVBK 20180608132847.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10640-010-9425-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10640-010-9425-y Economic Growth and the Diffusion of Clean Technologies: Explaining Environmental Kuznets Curves [Elektronische Daten] [Sjak Smulders, Lucas Bretschger, Hannes Egli] The paper provides a theoretical explanation for the inverted U-shaped relation between pollution and income often found in empirical research (Environmental Kuznets Curve). We model the transition in the pollution pattern as a change in general purpose technologies and investigate how it interferes with economic growth driven by quality improvements. We provide an analytical foundation for the claim that the rise and decline of pollution can be explained by endogenous innovations, policy-induced technology shifts, and intrasectoral changes. Once environmental degradation becomes too severe, regulation is introduced by which society forces the economy to make a transition to cleaner production. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2010 Environmental Kuznets curve nationallicence General purpose technology nationallicence Growth nationallicence Intrasectoral shifts nationallicence Smulders Sjak Departement of Economics, Tilburg University, 5000 LE, Tilburg, The Netherlands aut Bretschger Lucas CER-ETH-Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland aut Egli Hannes Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, 6002, Luzern, Switzerland aut Environmental and Resource Economics Springer Netherlands 49/1(2011-05-01), 79-99 0924-6460 49:1<79 2011 49 10640 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-010-9425-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-010-9425-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Smulders Sjak Departement of Economics, Tilburg University, 5000 LE, Tilburg, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bretschger Lucas CER-ETH-Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Egli Hannes Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, 6002, Luzern, Switzerland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Environmental and Resource Economics Springer Netherlands 49/1(2011-05-01), 79-99 0924-6460 49:1<79 2011 49 10640 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence SWISSBIB 445854588 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer