Microeconomics: Principles, Applications, and Tools (8th Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0-13294-886-9
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Chapter 16 - External Costs and Environmental Policy - Exercises - 16.3 Traditional Regulation - Page 374: 3.5

Answer

upward increase in

Work Step by Step

The lack of incentive for bettering abatement technologies will cause the supply curve for the polluting curve to shift upwards, and thusly an increase in equilibrium price with a reduction in quantity.
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