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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kumar, Surender
• Managi, Shunsuke

Titel

Non-separability and substitutability among water pollutants: evidence from India

Ist Teil von

• Environment and development economics, 2011-12, Vol.16 (6), p.709-733

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2011

Quelle

PAIS Index

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The design and implementation of environmental policy often involve more than one pollutant, and must consider pollution as a byproduct of the production of marketable output. In this paper, we test the implicit assumption in the empirical literature that (1) production of marketable output, pollution and abatement are separable, and (2) different pollutants can be abated separately. Using unique plant-level data in India, we reject the null hypotheses of separability between marketable output and pollutants, and between different pollutants. Firms must incur abatement costs for reducing pollution levels. In addition, complement and substitute relationships between water pollutants are demonstrated with statistical significance.