Endogene Rücknahmepolitik in einem dualen Entsorgungssystem / An Endogenously Determined Repurchase of Scrap in a Dual Waste Disposal System

Clausen Hartmut and Wacker Holger
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Clausen Hartmut: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Lehrstuhl für Volkswirtschaftstheorie, Universitätsstr. 14-16, D-48143 Münster
Wacker Holger: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Lehrstuhl für Volkswirtschaftstheorie, Universitätsstr. 14-16, D-48143 Münster

Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), 1998, vol. 217, issue 3, 292-307

Abstract: The German „Kreislaufwirtschaftsgesetz“ (Law on the Prevention and Recycling of Waste) focuses on closing materials cycles and the product responsibility of producers. An important instrument for the regulation of product flows are repurchasing obligations. Regarding electric/ electronic scrap materials and car recycling, two liabilities are in their blueprint stages at the time being. Economic theory has just begun to analyze this thematic complex. The paper is concerned with questions of allocative efficiency within a framework of a dual waste disposal system. Applying optimal control theory it is shown, that repurchasing generates a second way of waste disposal, which is related to waste deposition in a substitutive mode.

Keywords: Waste management; dual waste disposal system; repurchasing obligations; product liability; dynamic optimization; Abfallwirtschaft; Duale Entsorgung; Rücknahmeverpflichtungen; Produktverantwortung; dynamische Optimierung; Waste management; dual waste disposal system; repurchasing obligations; product liability; dynamic optimization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1515/jbnst-1998-0303

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