We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany … patients (80+ years): higher levels of air pollution by one standard deviation 3 to 12 days after developing symptoms increase … deaths by 30 percent (males) and 35 percent (females) of the mean. In addition, air pollution raises the number of confirmed …

Air pollution generates vast health burdens and economic costs around the world. Pollution exposure varies greatly … Global Burden of Disease framework, I find that mortality associated with PM2.5 exposure is even more unequal than pollution …

robust to a host of sensitivity tests. These results suggest that air pollution plays an important role in mediating the …

modelling of pollution and pollution abatement. We derive two key insights. First, if the national government implements a … permit system (equivalently, pollution taxes) that allow for emissions as in the first-best, cities chosen by local …-best emission policy and extensions to city asymmetries, a fiscal externality, local pollution, generalized commuting costs and …

significant downward trends indicating a decline over time in the degree of pollution in Chinese cities. It is also interesting …

We use panel data from Germany to analyze the effect of population density on urban air pollution (nitrogen oxides … estimates imply that a one-standard deviation increase in population density increases air pollution by 3-12%. …

; energy markets ; product regulation ; petroleum refining ; environmental pollution …