On levies to reduce the nitrogen surplus: The case of Dutch pig farms

Peter Fontein, Geert Thijssen, Jan Magnus () and Jan Dijk

Environmental & Resource Economics, 1994, vol. 4, issue 5, 455-478

Abstract: Pig farms in the Netherlands pay a zero or low price for using the environment. As a consequence, the environment is overused. The Dutch government wants to reduce the emissions of nitrogen and phosphorus. Possible instruments are regulation and levies. In this study a levy on feed and a levy on the nitrogen surplus are investigated, by incorporating a bad output in the production model. The model is estimated using panel data of Dutch pig farms over the period 1975–1989. Levies on nitrogen turn out to be more cost-effective than levies on feed. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1994

Keywords: Pollution control; manure problem; nitrogen surplus; bad output; levies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994
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DOI: 10.1007/BF00691923

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