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Potential gains from trading bad outputs: The case of U.S. electric power plants

Creator:

Färe, Rolf, Grosskopf, Shawna, and Pasurka, Carl A.

Abstract:

Jointly with kilowatt-hours (kWh), electric power plants also produce CO₂, NO[subscript x], and SO₂. In this paper, we apply an environmental production model based on data envelopment analysis (DEA) to compare the production of kWh under command-and-control regulation of the undesirable byproduct with tradable permit regulation of the byproduct. This...

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