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ONTIVEROS JIMENEZ, Manuel. Analysis of the effectiveness, efficiency and equity of programs to reduce tropospheric ozone emissions in Mexico City. Economía UNAM [online]. 2019, vol.16, n.48, pp.239-265.  Epub 09-Dic-2020. ISSN 1665-952X.  https://doi.org/10.22201/fe.24488143e.2019.48.498.

In the spring of 2016 and 2017, ozone levels were higher than 150 IMECAS, so Phase I of Environmental Contingency was decreed for several days. In 2016 it was indicated as probable responsible a resolution of the Supreme Court of the Nation that allowed a greater circulation of vehicles. When the phenomenon was repeated in 2017, the judicial resolution was no longer discussed. This paper analyzes the effectiveness, efficiency and equity of the policy to reduce and control tropospheric ozone emissions. We analyze the institutional structure of this policy, which basically consists of restricting the circulation of some vehicles according to the rate at which they emit certain pollutants, but does not seek to determine the social cost of emissions of atmospheric pollutants. The empirical estimation of maximum concentrations of ozone in relation to the determinants of the three official programs of this policy shows that the environmental factors, maximum temperature principally and to a lesser degree rain, explain the formation of this gas. Consumption of gasoline and diesel are not significant determinants. It is concluded that the policy is ineffective in achieving its objectives of reducing and controlling ozone pollution, so it would be more efficient to eliminate it. If it is taken as a criterion of equity that the one that pollutes more has to pay more, the policy is also not equitable.

Palabras llave : L9; Q2; Q25; Q28; Utilities and Transportation; Environmental Management; Water; Air; Government Policy.

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