Technical change and pollution abatement costs

Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf and Carl Pasurka

European Journal of Operational Research, 2016, vol. 248, issue 2, 715-724

Abstract: There is continuing interest in the trend of costs associated with pollution abatement activities. We specify an environmental production technology to model the joint production of good and bad outputs. The joint production model calculates pollution abatement costs and identifies changes in these costs associated with: (1) technical change, (2) input changes, and (3) changes in bad output production. Estimates of the relative importance of each factor are estimated using data from 1995 to 2005 for a sample of coal-fired power plants in the United States. Finally, we discuss the potential usefulness of the decomposition model for identifying discrepancies between ex ante and ex post pollution abatement costs that are linked to the underlying joint production model.

Keywords: Environmental production function; Environmental technology; Ex-ante pollution abatement costs; Ex-post pollution abatement costs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejor.2015.07.040

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