Marginal abatements costs ($/ton) Emissions (tons/week)…

Marginal abatements costs ($/ton) Emissions (tons/week) Firm 1 Firm 2 Firm 3 10 $0 $0 $0 9 4 1 1 8 8 2 2 7 12 4 3 6 16 6 4 5 20 8 5 4 24 12 6 3 28 20 7 2 36 24 8 1 46 28 9 0 58 36 10   Refer to the above Table. If the firms above faced an emissions tax of $8, what level of total emissions would occur?

Three firms emit pollutants and can abate at private quadra…

Three firms emit pollutants and can abate at private quadratic cost.  A regulator wants to cut total emissions by 60\% of the sum of their baselines, and considers three instruments: a uniform standard, a per‐unit tax, and tradable permits.  This exercise compares the cost and allocation properties of each approach. The total cap is 40% of