This paper surveys the recent literature exploring the causes of urban pollution in the developing world and the … implications of such pollution for a city's competitiveness. Within a system of cities, cities compete for jobs and people. Those … pollution inhibit urban competitiveness? Second, why is this effect likely to grow in importance over time? Third, why have …

become and remain competitive. Although many studies have focused on these negative effects, the links between pollution and … pollution and city growth, and how it correlates with city competitiveness. Although high-income cities are usually better at … managing pollution, the paper finds successful examples of fast-growing, lower-income cities that are able to tackle this issue …

environmental ("carbon") tax on polluting production, as well as the effect of government spending on pollution abatement over the … cycle. In particular, a positive shock to pollution emission in the model works like a positive technological shock, but its … effect is quantitatively very small. Allowing for pollution as a by-product of production improves the model performance …

presence of pollution, and evaluated it relative to the exogenous (observed) one in Bulgaria, an economy with a largely …

regulated due to its historically large contribution to air and water pollution. Our paper contributes to the broader empirical … and enforcement. Our key findings are: (1) prudential regulation limits expansion of plants with high initial pollution …