This paper documents the negative relationship between the age of cities and their average wages in Russia and a number of post-Soviet countries. To determine age-related urban characteristics responsible for this relationship, we develop a spatial equilibrium model as a framework to guide the...

We study an overlapping generations model á la Diamond in which two types of agents are alive at the same time. One type of agents cares about its own level of consumption and an idex of environmental quality, while the other type of agents carse only about its own consumption. At any period,...

We consider international negotiations on the level of global pollution, and examine the Lindahl solution which determines the distribution of the pollution permits with unanimous agreement. We show various properties to clarify difficulties to achieve a Pareto efficient allocation as an...

National authorities are presently not willing to install a supranational authority vested with the competencies required to internalize global environmental externalities. Therefore we adopt a dynamic framework of two economies (i.e. Europe and rest of world) and analyze their strategic...

We consider the problem of efficient emission abatement in a multi polluter setting, where agents are located along a river in which net emissions accumulate and induce negative externalities to downstream riparians. Assuming a cooperative transferable utility game, we seek welfare distributions...

We consider international negotiations on the level of global pollution, and examine the Lindahl solution which determines the distribution of the pollution permits with unanimous agreement. We show various properties to clarify difficulties to achieve a Pareto efficient allocation as an...

We study an overlapping generations model á la Diamond in which two types of agents are alive at the same time. One type of agents cares about its own level of consumption and an idex of environmental quality, while the other type of agents carse only about its own consumption. At any period,...

I analyze the impact of a firm's environmental profile on its cost of equity and debt capital. Using implied cost of capital derived from analysts' earnings estimates, I find that investors demand significantly higher expected returns on stocks excluded by environmental screens (such as...