Pollution Modelling and Multiple-Output Production*

Finn Førsund

No 10/2016, Memorandum from Oslo University, Department of Economics

Abstract: The Memorandum was originally published as Finn R. Førsund, “Pollution Modelling and Multiple-Output Production Theory” Discussion Paper #D- 37/1998, Department of Economics and Social Sciences, Agricultural University of Oslo. The materials balance principle points to the crucial role of material inputs in generating residuals in production processes. Pollution modelling must be of a multi-output nature. The most flexible transformation function in outputs and inputs used in textbooks is too general to make sense in pollution modelling. Specifying bads as if they are inputs, although defendable on a macro Level, hides explicit considerations of various modification activities. A complete taxonomy of inputs as to the impact on both residuals and marketed Products as joint outputs, is derived, based on factorially determined multi-output Production, thus providing information for choice of policy instruments.

Keywords: multiple-output Production; factorially determined multi output production; pollution; bads; purification; modification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D62 Q50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 1998-12-23
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Forthcoming as Førsund, Finn, 'Multi-equation modelling of desirable and undesirable outputs satisfying the materials balance' in Empirical Economics, 2017.

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