George Adu is a Ph.D. student in Environmental and Resource Economics, Department of Economics, SLU, Uppsala.

Key words: Economic Growth, Directed Technical Change, Applied Time Series and Panel Data Econometrics

Research Area

Recent research on economic growth has developed methods that are suitable for analysis of the nexus between economic growth and environment, trade and growth and that existing between trade and environment. In particular, there is an emerging literature on growth in open economies (see Ventura; 2005). However, this literature has not incorporated environmental issues (and the literature that studies the interrelationship between trade and environment does not consider growth; see Copeland and Taylor (2003)).

It would be particularly interesting to analyze the consequences (in terms of differences between countries with respect to growth rates between countries, and thus the long-run world income distribution) of differences in environmental (and other) polices. Does a stricter environmental policy in one country leads to an outflow of capital and lower growth rate? If positive health effects of clean environment are taken into account, the answer to the above question is far from obvious apriori.

My research interest is to explore the nexus, both theoretically and empirically between economic growth and environmental quality in an open economy.