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. …

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 …

This paper reports the results of laboratory test of the performance of a non-point source (NPS) water pollution …-point source pollution control program, and ties individual payoffs to collective performance of the farmers in the watershed …

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 …

-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 …