Locational Dimensions of Utility for Transboundary Pollutants
通过英国和美国的离散选择实验，检验了理论模型中关于跨界污染物（如海洋塑料）的简化假设是否成立，发现这些假设可能不适用于实际情况。
<h3>Abstract</h3> Theoretical models of transboundary pollutants impose simplifying restrictions on the locational and/or spatial dimensions of utility. This includes assumptions that citizens in each country care only about domestic environmental damages; or that pollution is a pure public bad for which the location of damages is irrelevant to welfare impacts. This paper empirically examines the applicability of such assumptions for a case study of marine plastic pollution. The data are from mirror-image, cross-country discrete choice experiments in the UK and US. Results suggest that common simplifying assumptions in the theoretical literature have questionable applicability to transboundary pollutants such as marine plastics.