We explore the links between migration of labour and location specific (urban) pollution, suggesting a sense in which … pollution can be welfare improving. In a conventional Harris-Todaro model of urban-rural migration, individuals migrate so as to … endogenously determined. Interpreting unemployment as damage, urban pollution (damage denoted in units of labour) can also support …

-firm pollution alleviate the tendency of firms to delocate into the region with the weaker regulation; then, a deregulatory race to …

We analyze the formation of environmental policy to regulate transboundary pollution if governments are self … be too high if environmental interests and pollution-intensity of production are very strong; under different …

In this paper we study international river pollution problems. We introduce a model in which the agents (countries …) located along a river derive benefit while causing pollution, but also incur environmental costs of experiencing pollution … from all upstream agents. We find that total pollution in the model decreases when the agents decide to cooperate. The …