Economic assessments of the benefits of regulating mercury: A review

Richard Dubourg
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Richard Dubourg: The Economics Interface Limited

No 132, OECD Environment Working Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: This paper gives an overview of economic assessments of the benefits of the control of emissions of mercury compounds, discusses their completeness from a social cost point of view, and discusses the relative magnitudes of the values attached to mercury compounds in different contexts. The majority of the assessments have been conducted in the context of coal-fired electricity generation and the valuation of human health impacts linked to ingestion of methylmercury.

Keywords: benefits; impacts; Mercury; policy; valuation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q51 Q53 Q58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-06-06
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