Environmental regulation of technically inefficient firms

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2013.08.010MaRDI QIDQ2451391zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bruno Wichmann

Publication date 3 June 2014

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2013.08.010

zbMATH Keywords

technical efficiencyasymmetric informationtaxquotasecond-best regulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Macroeconomic theory (monetary models, models of taxation) (91B64) Environmental economics (natural resource models, harvesting, pollution, etc.) (91B76) Special types of economic markets (including Cournot, Bertrand) (91B54)

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• Efficiency Estimation of Production Functions
• Estimating the Efficiency of Production

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