Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/126615 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 15-08
Publisher: 
University of Bern, Department of Economics, Bern
Abstract: 
We consider the problem of efficient emission abatement in a multi polluter setting, where agents are located along a river in which net emissions accumulate and induce negative externalities to downstream riparians. Assuming a cooperative transferable utility game, we seek welfare distributions that satisfy all agents' participation constraints and, in addition, a fairness constraint implying that no coalition of agents should be better off than it were if all non-members of the coalition would not pollute the river at all. We show that the downstream incremental distribution, as introduced by Ambec and Sprumont (2002), is the only welfare distribution satisfying both constraints. In addition, we show that this result holds true for numerous extensions of our model.
Subjects: 
downstream externalities
downstream incremental distribution
optimal emission abatement
river pollution
JEL: 
C71
D62
Q53
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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