Diagram Illustrating the Owner-Favorable Outcome in the Browneville Model
This diagram illustrates the outcome when bargaining power favors the firm's owner. It is plotted with wages on the horizontal axis and environmental quality (ranging from 0 to 100) on the vertical. The graph includes the firm's downward-sloping linear shutdown condition; any point above this line is unprofitable for the firm. A second straight line, parallel to and below the shutdown line, represents a profitable, lower-cost isocost line. Two of the citizens' convex, downward-sloping indifference curves (representing their leave-town conditions) are also depicted. A key feature of these curves is that they share the same slope at any given wage. One curve is tangent to the shutdown line at point C (w*, E_max), representing the citizen-favorable outcome, while the other is tangent to the lower isocost line at point F (w*, E_min), the owner-favorable outcome. The feasible set of agreements is defined as the area bounded by the shutdown line and the lower of the two indifference curves.
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