Population mobility and transboundary environmental problems
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Population Mobility and Transboundary Environmental Problems
A standard result in the literature on environmental economics is that efficient environmental policies regulating transboundary pollution will be adopted only if there is interjurisdictional coordination. Efficient policies can be adopted as a result of interregional treaties or mandated by a central authority. The present paper demonstrates that if there is perfect population mobility between...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Economics
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0047-2727
DOI: 10.1016/s0047-2727(01)00163-3