Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/39752 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Thünen-Series of Applied Economic Theory - Working Paper No. 109
Publisher: 
Universität Rostock, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Rostock
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
economic geography
migration
trade
pollution
environmental regulation
JEL: 
Q52
Q56
Q58
R30
F12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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