Payments from Households to Distant Polluting Firms

Bouwe Dijkstra

Environmental & Resource Economics, 2022, vol. 82, issue 3, No 7, 715 pages

Abstract: Abstract We investigate a novel way to encourage separation between firms, causing local pollution, and their victims (households): payments from households to distant polluting firms. These payments do not require monitoring of firms’ emissions or their abatement costs. In our model, households and firms can choose from two locations (A and B, with A larger than B). Households incur environmental damage from firms in the same location. Under laissez faire, payments from households in one location (say A) to firms in the other location (say B) will prompt firms to move from A to B and to stay there, thus reducing damage to households in A. The maximum that households are willing to pay temporarily is the amount that currently makes them indifferent between A and B. The payments make A less attractive to firms as well as to households. The unique positive-payment equilibrium implements the global welfare optimum where laissez faire does not. We examine from which starting points this payment equilibrium can be reached.

Keywords: Location dynamics; Pollution victims; Coasean transfers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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