We explore whether environmental motivation affects environmental behavior by focusing on volunteering. The paper first … with a large micro data set covering 32 countries from both Western and Eastern Europe using several different proxies to … measure environmental motivation. Our results indicate that environmental motivation has a strong impact on individuals …

scale of economic activity and the level of pollution. In particular, if we concentrate on local pollutants several … empirical studies have identified a bell shaped curve linking pollution to per capita GDP (in the case of global pollutants like … across pollutants) the turning point pollution starts to decline as income further increases. In analogy with the historic …

monitoring ambient pollution is low enough, the optimal inspection policy consists in imposing the maximal possible fine, and … mixing between observing ambient pollution and not conducting any inspection at all. However, with stringent upper limits on … the fine, the agency mixes between observing ambient pollution and inspecting all firms. The observation of ambient …

the pollution variation among municipalities within the same province, the per capita income level of municipalities …