Tradable Permits That Establish a Maximum Amount of Pollution and Then

question 84

Multiple Choice

Tradable permits that establish a maximum amount of pollution and then allow firms to trade pollution quota permits among them:

• A)works most efficiently if the polluting industries are dominated by a large firm.
• B)tend to work better than taxes but only when the government originally allocates the permits to the biggest polluters.
• C)tend to not work because firms don't have an incentive to minimize their pollution.
• D)tend to work better than taxes because firms with higher costs of eliminating pollution buy permits from firms with lower costs of eliminating pollution.

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