If the Marginal Cost of Pollution Abatement Differs Across Firms

question 34

Multiple Choice

If the marginal cost of pollution abatement differs across firms, then regulations that require all polluters to reduce pollution by a fixed proportion will be:

• A)efficient.
• B)inefficient
• C)ineffective.
• D)fair to all polluters.

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