TY  - JOUR
A1  - Borck, Rainald
A1  - Tabuchi, Takatoshi
T1  - Pollution and city size: can cities be too small?
JF  - Journal of Economic Geography
N2  - We study optimal and equilibrium sizes of cities in a city system model with pollution. Pollution is a function of population size. If pollution is local or per-capita pollution increases with population, equilibrium cities are too large under symmetry; with asymmetric cities, the largest cities are too large and the smallest too small. When pollution is global and per-capita pollution declines with city size, cities may be too small under symmetry; with asymmetric cities, the largest cities are too small and the smallest too large if the marginal damage of pollution is large enough. We calibrate the model to US cities and find that the largest cities may be undersized by 3-4%.
KW  - Optimal city size distribution
KW  - agglomeration
KW  - pollution
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1093/jeg/lby017
SN  - 1468-2702
SN  - 1468-2710
VL  - 19
IS  - 5
SP  - 995
EP  - 1020
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
CY  - Oxford
ER  - 
TY  - RPRT
A1  - Borck, Rainald
A1  - Mulder, Peter
T1  - Energy policies and pollution in two developing country cities
BT  - A quantitative model
T2  - CEPA Discussion Papers
N2  - We study the effect of energy and transport policies on pollution in two developing country cities. We use a quantitative equilibrium model with choice of housing, energy use, residential location, transport mode, and energy technology. Pollution comes from commuting and residential energy use. The model parameters are calibrated to replicate key variables for two developing country cities, Maputo, Mozambique, and Yogyakarta, Indonesia. In the counterfactual simulations, we study how various transport and energy policies affect equilibrium pollution. Policies may be induce rebound effects from increasing residential energy use or switching to high emission modes or locations. In general, these rebound effects tend to be largest for subsidies to public transport or modern residential energy technology.
T3  - CEPA Discussion Papers - 78 
KW  - pollution
KW  - energy policy
KW  - discrete choice
KW  - developing country cities
Y1  - 2024
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-638472
SN  - 2628-653X
IS  - 78
ER  -