Municipal Solid Waste, Market Competition and the EU Policy
研究了欧盟固体废物政策中的邻近原则和自给自足原则如何限制跨区域竞争、增强本地处置商的市场势力，并意外激励了废物分类收集。
Two of the main pillars of the EU solid waste policy are the Proximity Principle and the Self-Sufficiency Principle. According to those, waste should be disposed as close as possible to where it has been produced. A likely effect of such provision is to prevent competition from neighbouring areas and increase the market power of local disposers, with possible undesirable consequences for other firms in the vertical chain. We show through a simple spatial model that one additional effect of the Proximity Principle and of the Self-Sufficiency Principle is to provide an incentive to collectors and waste producers to increase the amount of separated waste.