The paper considers an industry where production costs rise due to pollution, but where this effect can be partially off-set by investing in adaptation as a private good. The focus is not on external effects, but industries where economies of scale are introduced from adapting to pollution. The...

In previous work, we, and also Epperly and Pistikopoulos, proposed an analysis of general nonlinear programs that identified certain variables as convex, not ever needing subdivision, and non-convex, or possibly needing subdivision in branch and bound algorithms. We proposed a specific...