Concentration, separation, and dispersion: Economic geography and the environment

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The paper investigates the spatial patterns of industrial location and environmental pollution in a new-economic-geography model. Factors of production and their owners are mobile, but factor owners are not required to live in the region in which their factors are employed. Under laisser-faire, a chase-and-flee cycle of location is possible: people, who prefer a clean environment, are chased by polluting industries, which want to locate geographically close to the market. Locational patterns under optimal environmental regulation include concentration, separation, dispersion and several intermediate patterns. Moreover, it is shown that marginal changes in environmental policy may induce discrete changes in locational patterns.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Thünen-Series of Applied Economic Theory - Working Paper ; No. 109

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Pollution Control Adoption and Costs; Distributional Effects; Employment Effects ; Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth ; Environmental Economics: Government Policy ; Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location: General ; Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
• Subject: economic geography ; migration ; trade ; pollution ; environmental regulation ; Industriestandort ; Industriegeographie ; Umweltbelastung ; Neue ökonomische Geographie ; Umweltpolitik ; Sta

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Rauscher, Michael
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Universität Rostock, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre
• (where): Rostock
• (when): 2009

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/39752
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