Despite the increasing interest in the use of emissions trading for pollution control, empirical evidence reduces to a few experiences in the US. This paper studies the “"emission-offsets trading program”" established since 1992 to control particulate in Santiago-Chile. While the program is...

We evaluate the performance of an environmental market in a less developed country based on the experience from Santiago-Chile's particulate matter control program. We find that grandfathering the permits has created economic incentives for incumbent sources to more readily declare their...