governments establish the optimal city size when production processes involve environmental pollution. Our analysis delivers two … key insights. First, if an optimal scheme to regulate environmental pollution is implemented, cities chosen by local … governments are never too large. They are too small if pollution is purely global, but at the optimal size, if pollution is purely …

implementation of stage 1 and 2 LEZs, which banned the most pollution-intensive vehicles from city centers, significantly reduced PM …

paper investigates the link between nighttime light pollution and economic growth, air pollution, and urban density. We …-level counties. This has implications for policies that have been proposed to curtail nighttime light pollution. …

the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) over the recent period. Our methodology relies on four recent estimation methods for … analysis. First, the EKC does not hold for most pollutants, and its validity crucially depends on the estimation techniques …

reduction. The empirical results are based on a panel data estimation using the EU-15 countries data observed from 1995 to 2010 …

, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient dropped nearly 10 points and the earnings share of the world …