| Title | Income inequality and the development of environmental technologies |
|---|---|
| ID_Doc | 30961 |
| Authors | Vona, F; Patriarca, F |
| Title | Income inequality and the development of environmental technologies |
| Year | 2011 |
| Published | Ecological Economics, 70, 11 |
| Abstract | Within rich countries, a large dispersion in the capacity of generating environmental innovations appears correlated to the level of inequality. Previous works analyze the relationship between inequality and environmental quality in a static setting. This paper builds a dynamic model more suitable to analyze technological externalities driven by the emergence of a new demand for green products. Under fairly general assumptions on technology and preferences, we show that: 1. the relationship between inequality and environmental innovation is highly non-linear and crucially depends on per-capita income; 2. an excessive inequality harms the development of environmental technologies especially in rich countries. Key to our results is the fact that externalities generated by pioneer consumers of green products benefit the entire population only for relatively low income distances. The empirical analysis robustly confirms our theoretical results, that is: whereas for rich countries inequality negatively affects the diffusion of innovations, per-capita income is paramount in poorer ones. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
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