An Advantage of the Incentive Approach of Marketable Pollution Rights

question 58

Multiple Choice

An advantage of the incentive approach of marketable pollution rights is:

• A) that it provides incentives for firms to develop less polluting technologies.
• B) a result of the fact that pollution costs are easier to calculate than emission taxes.
• C) that the value that future generations place on pollution damages can be accurately determined.
• D) that it eliminates all transactions costs.

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Definitions:

SSE

Stands for Sum of Squares due to Error, a measure in statistics used to quantify the discrepancy between the data and an estimation model.

Regression Hyperplane

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Independent Variables

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Squared Vertical Deviations

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