Effluent charges are discussed as a means for reducing pollution. In a comparative static model, the long run adjustment of a perfectly competitive industry to a change in the effluent charge rate is analyzed. The industry is assumed to have a flexible pollution abatement technology. It turns...

The response of a monopolistic polluter to the imposition of an emission tax and its welfare implications are examined. The cases of output reduction as the sole means for pollution control and of additional means being feasible are considered. It turns out that in the second case the tax may...

H. Demsetz claimed that under certain conditions private firms can supply public goods efficiently. Recently, it was argued that the optimality of the Demsetz equilibrium is destroyed when consumers engage in fraudulent behavior. In this paper, fraudulence is explicitly introduced in the Demsetz...

This paper analyzes the output, abatement, and investment decisions made by a monopolistic polluter under environmental liability law. The model applied considers both integrated and end-of-pipe abatement technologies. We find that in the case of fixed technology, in many instances negligence...