Imagine a firm's marginal abatement cost function with existing technologies is: MAC = 150 – 6E. If the firm adopts new pollution abatement technologies, its marginal abatement cost function will be: MAC = 75 – 3E. If the government raises the tax on emissions from $12 to $24, the benefits of adopting the new technologies increase by $

Imagine a firm's marginal abatement cost function with existing technologies is: MAC = 150 – 6E. If the firm adopts new pollution abatement technologies, its marginal abatement cost function will be: MAC = 75 – 3E. If the government raises the tax on emissions from $12 to $24, the benefits of adopting the new technologies increase by $

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