The main result of this paper is that when two asymmetric regions compete in pollution taxes to attract a polluting … that incomplete information on regions' pollution costs may lead to a bias towards location in a region that does not …'' marginal cost of pollution. Also, this bias tends to disappear with large discrepancies in production costs. …

Describes how pollution control spending around the world is set to increase from $70 billion (1979) to $115 billion in … water pollution control equipment (WPCE). States that WPCE shipments world wide are projected to rise from $3.3 billion in …, international trade, types of equipment structure and competition and expresses these with the aid of explicit tables. Finishes by …

question how to measure such indirect effectscorrectly under conditions of perfect and imperfect competition. Conventional CBA … competition, provided that the demand curve isappropriately defined. Under less than perfect competition, the indirect effect can … competition it can be smaller, identical or larger, depending on the details ofthe model specification and on the possibility of …