technology. Pollutants, or bads, are explicitly modeled by imposing technology properties of disposability and null-jointness. With data on firms from Swedish manufacturing, we investigate the potential to reduce emissions, and we take a closer look at the pulp and paper sector. Dividing the...

Surveys have been the principal method used to estimate costs associated with environmental regulations in the United States. Although surveys have been widely used, there are concerns about their accuracy. In order to investigate the accuracy of survey estimates of pollution abatement costs,...