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
Institutions:	Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS

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Series:	Annual Conference 2013 (Duesseldorf): Competition Policy and Regulation in a Global Economic Order.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
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:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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