We exploit the public good attributes of Ganges water pollution cleanup and theoretically analyze an aggregate economy … pollution cleanup in these two cities ought to be provided in a centralized or in a decentralized manner. We first determine the … compute the optimal amount of water pollution cleanup in the two cities in a decentralized regime in which spending on cleanup …

We study pollution cleanup in the Ganges in Varanasi, India. Voters elect politicians and elected politicians decide … how much pollution to clean up. Between the two time periods, there is an election. Politicians are sincere or insincere …. The marginal cost of public funds ζ measures how efficiently elected politicians transform tax receipts into pollution …

pollution abatement and then the SNGA offers an incentive compatible and collusion-proof IEA to the two DC parties. In the … principal conclusions are as follows: First, the contractually specified levels of pollution abatement and the pattern of the … contracting with monitoring device manipulation, the SNGA will prefer contracting with a ceiling constraint. Fourth, the pollution …

, India. The tannery produces leather and toxic chemical waste that ends up in wastewater used by the small farmer to irrigate … agricultural land and grow vegetables. The waste generated by the tannery is functionally related to its output of leather. The … effect it has on the small farmer. Second, on the assumption that the tannery compensates the small farmer per unit of waste …