Environmental innovation and the cost of pollution abatement revisited

Thierry Bréchet and Pierre-André Jouvet

Ecological Economics, 2008, vol. 65, issue 2, 262-265

Abstract: It is widely assumed in the literature that environmental innovation reduces the marginal cost of pollution abatement. In this paper we show that this is not necessarily the case and we provide some unexpected outcomes.

Date: 2008
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