{"title":"Sustainability for a greener economy","authors":"Xinyuan Zhong, Yingxian Tan, Xiang Gao","doi":"10.1016/j.econlet.2026.113288","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We introduce a sustainability constraint into a two-sector production economy with green and brown capital, requiring the welfare measure to be non-decreasing over time. The constraint binds only when the brown capital share is high. When it binds, the planner reduces current consumption and reallocates resources toward investment, especially green investment. The constraint also lowers the risk-free rate and raises the risk premium and Tobin’s <span><math><mi>q</mi></math></span>.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":11468,"journal":{"name":"Economics Letters","volume":"269 ","pages":"Article 113288"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0000,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Economics Letters","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176526004842","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2026/10/6 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ECONOMICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We introduce a sustainability constraint into a two-sector production economy with green and brown capital, requiring the welfare measure to be non-decreasing over time. The constraint binds only when the brown capital share is high. When it binds, the planner reduces current consumption and reallocates resources toward investment, especially green investment. The constraint also lowers the risk-free rate and raises the risk premium and Tobin’s .
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