This paper examines the link between pollution and income. It shows how income inequality affects environmental … policies and therefore pollution. The Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis proposes that there is an inverted U …

work when they are young and own capital when they are old. Pollution externalities are present due to the use of a … polluting factor. The government uses the revenue from a capital-income tax and a pollution tax for a lump-sum transfer to the …-economic equilibrium, the lower the skill of the median individual is relative to the average, the smaller the pollution tax and the …

-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 …