Regulatory federalism and the distribution of air pollutant emmissions

Journal of Regional Science

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 155-178

  Bulte, Erwin ^a   List, John A ^b   Strazicich, Mark C ^c  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; EMISSION CONTROL; NITROGEN OXIDES; POLLUTION CONTROL; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SULFUR; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33846656113     PISSN: 00224146     EISSN: 14679787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9787.2007.00504.x     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Andreoni, James and Arik Levinson. 2001. "The Simple Analytics of the Environmental Kuznets Curve," Journal of Public Economics, 80, 269-286.
2. Arora, Seema and Timothy N. Cason. 1999. "Do Community Characteristics Determine Environmental Outcomes? Evidence from the Toxics Release Inventory," Southern Economic Journal, 65, 691-716.
3. Arrow, K., B. Bolin, R. Costanza, P. Dasgupta, C. Folke, C. Holling, B-O. Jansson, S. Levin, K.-G. Maler, C. Perrings, and D. Pimentel, 1995. "Economic Growth, Carrying Capacity, and the Environment," Science, 268, 520-521.
4. Azomahou, T., F. Laisney, and P. Nguyen Van, 2006. "Economic Development and CO2 Emissions: A Nonparametric Panel Approach," Journal of Public Economics, 90, 1347-1363.
5. Barro, Robert J., and Xavier Sala-i-Martin. 1991. "Convergence across States and Regions," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 1, 107-158.
6. Break, George. 1967. Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in the United States. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution.
7. Brock, William A., and M. Scott Taylor. 2004. "Economic Growth and the Environment: Matching the Stylized facts," Working Paper, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
8. Brooks, Nancy and Rajiv Sethi. 1997. "The Distribution of Pollution: Community Characteristics and Exposure to Air Toxics," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 32, 233-250.
9. Carlino, Gerald and Leonard Mills. 1993. "Are U.S. Regional Economies Converging? A Time Series Analysis," Journal of Monetary Economics, 32, 335-346.
10. Carlino, Gerald and Leonard Mills. 1996. "Convergence and the U.S. State: A Time-Series Analysis," Journal of Regional Science, 36, 597-616.
11. Cumberland, John H. 1980. "Efficiency and Equity in Interregional Environmental Management," Review of Regional Studies, 10, 1-9.
12. Evans, Paul and Georgios Karras. 1996a. "Convergence Revisited," Journal of Monetary Economics, 37, 249-265.
13. Evans, Paul and Georgios Karras. 1996b. "Do Economies Converge? Evidence from a Panel of U.S. States," The Review of Economics and Statistics, 78, 384-388.
14. Friedman, Milton. 1992. "Do Old Fallacies Ever Die?" Journal of Economic Literature, 30, 2129-2132.
15. Gianessi, Leonard P., Henry M. Peskin, and Edward Wolff. 1979. "The Distributional Effects of Uniform Air Pollution Policy in the United States," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 93, 281-301.
16. Grossman, Gene M., and Alan B. Krueger. 1995. "Economic Growth and the Environment," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 112, 353-378.
17. Hamilton, James T. 1995. "Testing for Environmental Racism: Prejudice, Profits, Political Power?," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 14, 107-132.
18. Im, Kyung So, Hashem M. Pesaran, and Yongcheol Shin, 2003. "Testing for Unit Roots in Heterogeneous Panels," Journal of Econometrics, 115, 53-74.
19. Jeppesen, Tim, John A. List, and Henk Folmer. 2002. "Environmental Regulations and New Plant Location Decisions: Evidence from a Meta-Analysis," Journal of Regional Science, 42, 19-49.
20. Krugman, Paul. 1997. "What Should Trade Negotiators Negotiate About?" Journal of Economic Literature, 35, 113-120.
21. Lee, Junsoo, and Mark C. Strazicich. 2001. "Break Point Estimation and Spurious Rejections with Endogenous Unit Root Tests," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 63, 535-558.
22. Lee, Junsoo, and Mark C. Strazicich. 2003. "Minimum LM Unit Root Test with Two Structural Breaks," The Review of Economics and Statistics, 85, 1082-1089.
23. Lee, Junsoo, and Mark C. Strazicich. 2004. "Minimum LM Unit Root Test with One Structural Break," Working Paper, Department of Economics, Appalachian State University.
24. List, John A., 1999. "Have Air Pollutant Emissions Converged Amongst US Regions? Evidence from Unit-Root Tests," Southern Economic Journal, 66, 144-155.
25. List, John A., and Craig A. Gallet. 1999. "The Environmental Kuznets Curve: Does one size fit all?" Ecological Economics, 31, 409-424.
26. List, John A. and Shelby Gerking. 2000. "Regulatory Federalism and U.S. Environmental Policies," Journal of Regional Science August, 40, 453-471.
27. Loewy, Michael B. and David H. Papell. 1996. "Are U.S. Regional Incomes Converging? Some Further Evidence," Journal of Monetary Economics, 38, 587-598.
28. MacKinnon, James G. 1991. "Critical Values for Cointegration Tests," in Robert F. Engle, and Clive W. J. Granger (eds.), Long-run Economic Relationships: Readings in Cointegration. Oxford: Oxford University Press in Chapter 13.
29. Mankiw, N., David Romer Gregory, and David N. Weil. 1992. "A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 107, 407-438.
30. Millimet, Daniel, John A. List, and Thanasis Stengos. 2003. "The Environmental Kuznets Curve: Real Progress or Misspecified Models?" Review of Economics and Statistics, 85, pp. 1038-1047.
31. Millimet, Daniel L. and John A. List. 2003. "A Natural Experiment on the 'Race to the Bottom' Hypothesis: Testing for Stochastic Dominance in Temporal Pollution Trends," Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics, 65, 395-420.
32. Musgrave, Richard A. 1959. The Theory of Public Finance: A Study in Public Economy. New York: McGraw-Hill.
33. Ng, Serena, and Pierre Perron. 1995. "Unit Root Tests in ARMA Models with Data-Dependent Methods for the Selection of the Truncation Lag," Journal of the American Statistical Association, 90, 269-281.
34. Nunes, Luis C., Paul Newbold, and Chung-Ming Kuan. 1997. "Testing for Unit Roots with Breaks: Evidence on the Great Crash and the Unit Root Hypothesis Reconsidered," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 59, 435-448.
35. Oates, Wallace E. 1991. Studies in Fiscal Federalism. Brookfield: Edward Elgar.
36. Oates, Wallace E. 2002. "A Reconsideration of Environmental Federalism," in J. A. List, and A. de Zeeuw (eds.), Recent Advances in Environmental Economics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
37. Oates, Wallace E., and Robert M. Schwab. 1988. "Economic Competition Among Jurisdictions: Efficiency Enhancing or Distortion Inducing?" Journal of Public Economics, 35, 333-354.
38. Perron, Pierre. 1989. "The Great Crash, the Oil Price Shock, and the Unit Root Hypothesis," Econometrica, 57, 1361-1401.
39. Portney, Paul R., ed., 1990. Public Policies for Environmental Protection. Washington, D.C.: Resources for the Future.
40. Quah, Danny. 1993. "Galton's Fallacy and the Tests of the Convergence Hypothesis," Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 95, 427-443.
41. Quah, Danny. 1996. "Empirics for Economic Growth and Convergence," European Economic Review, 40, 1353-1375.
42. Solow, Robert M. 1956. "A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 70, 65-94.
43. Stokey, Nancy L. 1998. "Are there limits to growth?" International Economic Review, 39, 1-31.
44. 2 Emission Levels Converging Among Industrial Countries?" Environmental and Resource Economics, 24, 263-271.
45. Tiebout, Charles M. 1956. "A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures," Journal of Political Economy, 64, 416-424.
46. Tomljanovich, Marc and Timothy J. Vogelsang. 2002. "Are U.S. Regions Converging? Using New Econometric Methods to Examine Old Issues," Empirical Economics, 27, 49-62.
47. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1997. The Benefits and Costs of the Clean Air Act, 1970 to 1990. EPA-410/R-97-002. Washington, D.C.
48. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards. 1995. National Air Pollutant Emission Trends, 1900-1994. EPA-454/R-95-011. Research Triangle Park, NC.
49. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards. 1998. National Air Pollutant Emission Trends, Procedures Document, 1900-1996. EPA-454/R-98-008. Washington, D.C.
50. Webber, Don J., Paul White, and David O. Allen. 2005. "Income Convergence Across U.S. States: An Analysis using Measures of Concordance and Discordance," Journal of Regional Science, 45, 565-589.
51. Wellisch, Dietmar. 2000. Theory of Public Finance in a Federal State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
52. Wilson, John D. 1996. "Capital Mobility and Environmental Standards: Is There a Theoretical Basis for a Race to the Bottom?" in Jagdish N. Bhagwati and Robert E. Hudec (eds.), Fair Trade and Harmonization: Prerequisites for Free Trade? Volume 1: Economic Analysis. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press in Chapter 10.
53. Wilson, John D. 1999. "Theories of Tax Competition," National Tax Journal, 52, 269-304.
54. Zivot, Eric and Donald W. K. Andrews. 1992. "Further Evidence on the Great Crash, the Oil-Price Shock and the Unit Root Hypothesis," Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 10, 251-270.