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 …

-point sources of pollution discharge into a river However sources of pollution discharge often have more information about their own … costs of pollution abatement than do regulators. This information asymmetry may lead to strategic behavior which can lead to …

Although the U.S. spends billions of dollars a year controlling water pollution, there is little empirical evidence of … comparable benefits. This study argues that measurement error in pollution data causes benefits to be underestimated. Using … nutrient pollution. Instrumental variable estimates of the effects of phosphorus on recreational use are an order of magnitude …

evidence that power plants spend less in water pollution abatement if the governor of the state where the plant is located is a … leads to increased pollution. …

pollution as a result of contaminants released into water bodies by households, industry, sewage treatment plants, and … agriculture, which further reduces the clean water supply. In particular, nitrate pollution due to intensive fertilization in …

novel data, an innovative noise pollution model, and quasi-experimental methods borrowed from environmental economics to … solve this puzzle. We find consistent evidence that vessel noise pollution from international shipping has lowered fertility … and raised the mortality of the SRKW significantly. Had noise pollution remained at its pre-1998 levels, the SRKW …

Water pollution constitutes an increasingly urgent problem worldwide. This study investigates an augmented … Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) considering trade and institutional quality for water pollution in Africa. Using data from 2002 to … estimated data on water pollution from the WorldQual model, the global water quality model of the WaterGAP3 Framework. We find …