Interactive aspects of producers and waste-disposal firms out of a market boundary

Journal of Economic Structures - Tập 5 - Trang 1-29 - 2016
Eiji Hosoda1
1Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

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This paper examines how environmentally friendly production and disposal of waste are promoted by interaction between producers and disposal firms out of a market boundary. Utilizing the dual nature of price and quantity systems, I show that the concept of natural price or production price can be applied to constructing a sustainable economy, where production and waste disposal are made with a relatively small environmental burden. I demonstrate that such a sustainable economy can be created by extended producer responsibility.

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