Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/119646 
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Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
Nota di Lavoro No. 36.2002
Publisher: 
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Milano
Abstract: 
This essay reviews the implementation experience with three main applications of tradable permit systems: air pollution control, water supply and fisheries management. Opening with a brief summary of the theory behind these programs and both the economic and environmental consequences anticipated by this theory, it proceeds with a description of the common elements these programs share and the design questions posed by the approach. These include the setting of the limit on access, the initial allocation of rights, transferability rules (both among participants and across time) as well as procedures for monitoring and enforcement. It continues by examining how these design questions have been answered by these three applications and how the answers have been influenced by changing technology, increased familiarity with the system and a desire to respond to some of the controversies surrounding the use of these approaches. The hard evidence on the economic and environmental consequences of adopting these approaches is juxtaposed with the expectations created by the economic theory of tradable permits. The final section draws together some tentative lessons that can be drawn from this experience.
Subjects: 
Emissions trading
individual tradable quotas
water rights
pollution control policy
economic incentives
tradable permits
JEL: 
Q22
Q25
Q28
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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