pollution costs are internalized (efficiency), but also that producers buy their allowances before they pass on those costs to …

This paper proves that when a firm has paid pollution tax, it will not clean its pollution any more. Conversely, it … proves that when a firm has cleaned up its pollution, it should be exempted from pollution and profit tax. This paper also … proves that for pollution tax to be effective, it has to be capital, i.e., the pollution firm has to be shut down. Finally …

conventional pollution tax. The second is an environmental campaign aiming to influence consumers to switch to a green good. We … consider two different scenarios. When consumers are characterized by hedonic quality preferences, in this case the pollution … are cases in which the campaign is preferred. To sum up, while both policy instruments are effective in reducing pollution …

This paper demonstrates that a pollution tax with a fixed cost component may lead, by itself, to segregation between … locations and two industries (clean and dirty) where pollution is a by-product of dirty good manufacturing. Under proper … outcome when there is a fixed cost component of the pollution tax. Moreover, a stratified Pareto optimum can never be …

conventional pollution tax. The second is an environmental campaign aiming to influence consumers to switch to a green good. We … consider two different scenarios. When consumers are characterized by hedonic quality preferences, in this case the pollution … are cases in which the campaign is preferred. To sum up, while both policy instruments are effective in reducing pollution …

Public policy often regards pollution and other measures of poor environmental quality as public bads that result from … this article, I argue that pollution and environmental quality should instead be regarded from a property rights … of pollution and an overall improvement in environmental quality. Using cross-country data, I examine the relationship …