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RESOURCE AND ENERGY ECONOMICS
Volume 23, Issue 4, Pages 359-371Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/S0928-7655(01)00044-6
Keywords
weight-based pricing; household waste; short-run and long-run elasticities
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This paper provides an empirical analysis of the effects of weight-based pricing in the collection of household waste. Using a comprehensive panel data set on all households in a Dutch municipality we estimate short-run as well as long-run price effects for the amounts of both compostable and non-recyclable household waste. We find significant and sizeable price effects, with the elasticity for compostable waste being four times as large as the elasticity for non-recyclable waste. Long-run elasticities are about 30% larger than short-run elasticities. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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