Atmospheric Pollution in Rapidly Growing Urban Centers: Spatial Policies and Land Use Patterns
Sammanfattning
We study the optimal and equilibrium distribution of industrial and residential land in a given region. The trade-o¤ between the agglomeration and dispersion forces, in the form of pollution from stationary forces, production externalities, and commuting costs, determines the emergence of industrial and residential clusters
across space. In this context, we de ne two kinds of spatial policies that can be used in order to close the gap between optimal and market allocations. More speci cally, we show that the joint implementation of a site-speci c environmental tax and a site-speci c labor subsidy can reproduce the optimum as an equilibrium outcome. The methodological approach followed in this paper allows for endogenous determination of land use patterns and is shown to provide more precise results
compared to previous studies.
Övrig beskrivning
JEL: R14, R38, H23
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Datum
2014-08Författare
Kyriakopoulou, Efthymia
Redaktör
Xepapadeas, Anastasios
Nyckelord
spatial policies
agglomeration
land use
atmospheric pollution
environmental tax
labor subsidy
Publikationstyp
report
ISSN
1403-2465
Serie/rapportnr.
Working Papers in Economics
601
Språk
eng