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Type Working Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Pollution permits: efficiency by design
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Marek Pycia
  • Kyle Woodward
Language
  • English
Series Name SSRN
Number 4453956
ISSN 1556-5068
Number of Pages 28
Date 2023
Abstract Text The annual adverse effects of pollution are on the order of 10% of world GDP. Many approaches are used or have been proposed to control the growing pollution problem, but none of them allows for efficient pollution control in settings in which the marginal cost of pollution is increasing and polluters are better informed than regulators about the costs of abatement. We propose a simple primary market mechanism, True-Cost Pay as Bid, that implements efficient pollution control and does not depend on how much information the regulators have about the abatement costs.
Digital Object Identifier 10.2139/ssrn.4453956
Other Identification Number merlin-id:24360
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Keywords Pharmacology (medical), pollution permits, efficient auction, pay-as-bid auction, discriminatory auction