The use of Permit Markets for Incorporating Source Location: the Case of Acid Rain in Europe

U. Steiner and Gert Tinggaard Svendsen ()

Working Papers from Aarhus School of Business - Department of Economics

Abstract: The paper shows that cost-effective involvement of the source location involves utmost difficulty in practice. Based on the RAINS model, it is recommended that source location should be ignored in a European market for SO2, as is the case in the U.S. Acid Rain Program. The RAINS-model predicts a cost-saving of 37 percent but an average loss of 2 percent in ecological protection. To overcome this reduction in protection, we recommend that some of the large cost-savings should be reallocated in further overall reduction and that the countries suffering the most from introducing the permit-market should be compensated by receiving extra permits in the initial distribution.

Keywords: ENVIRONMENT (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997

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