federation, we show that vertical fiscal externalities can be the major determinant of the welfare change following environmental … externalities -- state governments can reduce greenhouse gas emissions by over 20 percent without any net cost to themselves …

also at dealing with local air and water pollution, waste management and the conservation of biodiversity. The laws that … has been made to 'green' the economy, an important challenge that remains is to internalize global and local externalities …

environmental regulation taking the shape of standards or taxes. Moreover, the paper shows that environmental externalities and … externalities related to social norms interact and that an optimal environmental policy should consider both types of externalities …

We study how the shadow economy affects pollution and how this effect depends on corruption levels in public … be accompanied by higher pollution levels. Our theoretical model predicts that controlling the levels of corruption can … limit the effect of the shadow economy on pollution. We use panel data covering the period from 1999–2005 from more than 100 …

This paper extends the classical exhaustible-resource/stock-pollution model with the irreversibility of pollution decay …. Within this framework, we answer the question how the potential irreversibility of pollution affects the extraction path. We … example. To sum up, for any pollution level, we can identify a critical resource stock such that there exist multiple optima i …

either mitigate the health consequences of domestic pollution privately or reduce pollution collectively through public … ordinary citizens. The recognition that the health consequences of pollution can be dealt with privately at a cost adds an … private mitigation is feasible, inequality of incomes leads to an unequal distribution of the health burden of pollution (in …

The paper studies the effect of public transport policies on urban pollution. It uses a quantitative equilibrium model … with residential choice and mode choice. Pollution comes from commuting and residential energy use. The model parameters … transport coupled with increasing transit speed affects the equilibrium. In the baseline simulation, total pollution falls by 0 …