Direct and indirect effects of EU Self Sufficiency Principle on Municipal Waste Management: A theoretical approach

Journal title ECONOMIA PUBBLICA
Author/s Francesco Silvestri
Publishing Year 2019 Issue 2019/1
Language English Pages 10 P. 89-98 File size 155 KB
DOI 10.3280/EP2019-001005
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In last years, we developed a theoretical model to deal with the effects of EU Self Sufficiency and Proximity Principle (i. e. the obligation to handle Municipal Waste within the same territorial area of origin) on Waste market performance with respect to percentage of recycled waste, environmental damage, total welfare and openness of the market to technical innovation. The present work operates a kind of review of all the previous results.

Keywords: Solid Waste, EU Regulation, Competition policy, waste trade

Jel codes: L13, L44, Q53

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Francesco Silvestri, Direct and indirect effects of EU Self Sufficiency Principle on Municipal Waste Management: A theoretical approach in "ECONOMIA PUBBLICA " 1/2019, pp 89-98, DOI: 10.3280/EP2019-001005