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Nonlinear production, abatement, pollution and materials balance reconsidered

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dc.creator Pethig, Rüdiger
dc.date 2005
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:02:24Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:02:24Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19013
dc.identifier ppn:503667714
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/19013
dc.description In the environmental economics literature the standard approach of modeling nonlinear production and abatement processes is to treat waste emissions "simply as another factor of production" (Cropper and Oates 1992). That approach doesn't map the materials flow involved completely and hides, moreover, the exact links between production, residuals generation and abatement. This paper shows that production functions with emissions treated as inputs can be reconstructed as a subsystem of a comprehensive production-cum-abatement technology that is in line with the materials-balance principle. In a simple economy with full regard of the materials flow it also explores the consequences for allocative efficiency and efficiency-restoring taxation of multiple and interdependent residuals generated in the transformation processes of production, abatement and consumption. Finally, the paper demonstrates that efficiency may require setting the emissions tax rate above or below conventionally defined marginal abatement cost if the residual subject to abatement is not the only residual causing pollution.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation CESifo working papers 1549
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject Q50
dc.subject Q52
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject residuals
dc.subject abatement
dc.subject pollution
dc.subject materials balance
dc.subject Industrielle Umweltbelastung
dc.subject Stoffstrom-Management
dc.subject Produktionsfunktion
dc.subject Allokationseffizienz
dc.subject Theorie
dc.title Nonlinear production, abatement, pollution and materials balance reconsidered
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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