PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Meginnis, Keila
AU  - Börger, Tobias
AU  - de Vries, Frans P.
AU  - Hanley, Nick
AU  - Johnston, Robert J.
AU  - Ndebele, Tom
AU  - Siyal, Ghamz E Ali
TI  - Locational Dimensions of Utility for Transboundary Pollutants
AID  - 10.3368/le.102.1.082924-0078R1
DP  - 2025 Jul 29
TA  - Land Economics
PG  - 082924-0078R1
4099  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/early/2025/07/22/le.102.1.082924-0078R1.short
4100  - http://le.uwpress.org/content/early/2025/07/22/le.102.1.082924-0078R1.full
AB  - 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.