systematic study of the water pollution relocation driven by the 11th Five-Year Plan pollution reduction mandates in China. We … provides strong evidence of the water pollution relocation from the coastal provinces with strict environmental regulations to …

China's environmental regulators have sought to reduce the Yangtze River's water pollution. We document that this …, the regulation has focused on reducing one dimension of water pollution called chemical oxygen demand (COD). Thus, local …

Data on pollution abateme ... …

-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 …