Arbeitspapier
City Size, Pollution and Emission Policies
This paper develops a micro-founded city systems model with an endogenous number of cities to explore whether local governments establish the optimal city size when production processes involve environmental pollution. Our analysis delivers two key insights. First, if an optimal scheme to regulate environmental pollution is implemented, cities chosen by local governments are never too large. They are too small if pollution is purely global, but at the optimal size, if pollution is purely local. Second, if no emission scheme is implemented or if emission policies are too lax, then cities steered by local governments, become too large, however.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 11354
State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations: Interjurisdictional Differentials and Their Effects
Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
Environmental Economics: General
environmental pollution
emission policies
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- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:24 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Pflüger, Michael P.
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2018