Dirty Neighbors: Pollution in an Interlinked World

26 Pages Posted: 20 Aug 2018

Date Written: July 19, 2018

Abstract

We apply a network approach to analyze individual and aggregate consumption that generates predominately local pollution (e.g., noise, water and air quality, waste disposal sites). This allows us to relate the individual pollution levels to network centralities and to design policy measures aimed at reducing the aggregate contamination. We then apply our theoretical framework to analyze the European data on fossil fuel energy consumption and discuss possible transfer schemes that, according to our model, would result in lower aggregate levels of pollution in the EU.

Keywords: local pollution, negative externalities, networks

JEL Classification: Q52, Q54, H23, D85

Suggested Citation

Meléndez-Jiménez, Miguel and Polanski, Arnold, Dirty Neighbors: Pollution in an Interlinked World (July 19, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3228457 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3228457

Miguel Meléndez-Jiménez (Contact Author)

University of Malaga ( email )

Malaga, Málaga 29004
Spain

Arnold Polanski

University of East Anglia ( email )

Norwich, Norfolk NR4 7TJ
United Kingdom
44 (0)1603 59 7166 (Phone)

HOME PAGE: http://https://www.uea.ac.uk/eco/people/All+People/Academic/Arnold+Polanski

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