Green cities? Urbanization, trade and the environment

We study environmental pollution in an economic geography framework with two cities, where pollution arises from commuting within cities, goods transport between cities, production of manufacturing and agricultural goods, and residential energy use. We find that city size has an ambiguous effect on pollution levels. We also analyse how pollution changes with varying trade freeness, skilled wage income, and commuting costs.

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Borck, Rainald ; Pflüger, Michael
Publisher:	Kiel und Hamburg : ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft

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Series:	Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2013: Wettbewerbspolitik und Regulierung in einer globalen Wirtschaftsordnung - Session: Urban Economics II ; E10-V3
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Conference Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	783223706 [GVK] hdl:10419/79763 [Handle] RePEc:zbw:vfsc13:79763 [RePEc]
Classification:	Q54 - Climate; Natural Disasters ; R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity ; F12 - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies
Source:	EconStor

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