In river systems, costly upstream pollution abatement creates downstream welfare gains. Absent adequate agreement on … how to share the gains, upstream regions lack incentives to reduce pollution levels. We develop a model that makes … explicit the impact of water quality on production benefits and suggest a solution for sharing the gains of optimal pollution …

In river systems, costly upstream pollution abatement creates downstream welfare gains. Absent adequate agreement on … how to share the gains, upstream regions lack incentives to reduce pollution levels. We develop a model that makes … explicit the impact of water quality on production benefits and suggest a solution for sharing the gains of optimal pollution …

-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 …

source water pollution from farms' runoff (Pushkarskaya 2003). In particular, the regulator pays for pollution reduction … nonpoint source water pollution, not only does not affect negatively farmers' participation in the program, but also might play …