Pollution-induced migration and environmental policy in an economic geography model

Caballero, María Victoria; Martínez-García, María Pilar; Morales, José R.

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Pollution-induced migration and environmental policy in an economic geography model

dc.contributor.author	Caballero, María Victoria
dc.contributor.author	Martínez-García, María Pilar
dc.contributor.author	Morales, José R.
dc.contributor.department	Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y la Empresa
dc.date.accessioned	2024-01-25T12:01:26Z
dc.date.available	2024-01-25T12:01:26Z
dc.date.copyright	© 2023 The Author(s)
dc.date.issued	2023-12-05
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dc.description.abstract	This paper develops a two-region New Economic Geography model with polluting firms subject to regional abatement policies. Pollution accumulates in the local environment and decreases the welfare of the population. We show that environmental policies have two opposing effects on welfare: they reduce nominal wages and increase environmental quality. If environmental regulations are equally strict in the two regions then population, pollution and wages tend to converge as trade becomes more open. If the two regions have different but unambitious environmental regulations, firms agglomerate in the laxer region, which becomes a pollution haven. However, a sufficiently far-reaching environmental policy in one of the regions raises its environmental quality, increasing its attractiveness for population and firms, and the emergence of a pollution haven is avoided. We also show that if the natural absorption rate of pollution is low, the environment recovers slowly, population and firms move between regions in a pollute-and-flee cycle and no static equilibrium is reached.	es
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dc.format.extent	32	es
dc.identifier.citation	Resource and Energy Economics 76 (2024) 101420
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reseneeco.2023.101420
dc.identifier.issn	1873-0221
dc.identifier.issn	0928-7655
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10201/137743
dc.language	eng	es
dc.publisher	Elsevier	es
dc.relation	This study was funded by the Spanish Government and the European Union (research projects PID2020-112509GB-I00 and TED2021-130390BI00) co-financed by FEDER funds and NextGenerationEU.	es
dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivates 4.0 International
dc.rights.accessRights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject	Pollution	es
dc.subject	New Economic geography (NEG)	es
dc.subject	Non-linear dynamics	es
dc.subject	Agglomeration-dispersion forces	es
dc.subject	Smooth and sudden transitions	es
dc.subject	Bifurcations	es
dc.title	Pollution-induced migration and environmental policy in an economic geography model	es
dc.type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article	es
dc.type.version	info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedversión
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