External Habits Formation and the Environment

Safi, Fatma

doi:10.2478/ngoe-2021-0001

Abstract

The present paper presents a standard overlapping generations model with external habits formation and environmental quality in the utility function. Our main objective is to study the impact of external habits on capital accumulation and environmental quality on the intertemporal competitive equilibrium. We notice that striving for status leads to environment worsening and capital increasing when the cohort size is large.

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