Transboundary spillovers and decentralization of environmental policies
By: Hilary Sigman.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 10717; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 10717.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Transboundary pollution.; Water quality management.
Description: "Most US federal environmental policies allow states to assume responsibility for implementation and enforcement of regulations; states with this responsibility are referred to as "authorized" or having "primacy". Although such decentralization may have benefits, it may also have costs with pollution spillovers across states.  This paper estimates these costs empirically by studying the free riding of states authorized under the Clean Water Act.  The analysis examines water quality in rivers around the US and includes fixed effects for the location where water quality is monitored to address unobserved geographic heterogeneity.  The estimated equations suggest that free riding gives rise to a 4% degradation of water quality downstream of authorized states, with an environmental cost downstream of $17 million annually"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Also available in print.
Includes bibliographical references.
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