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来源类型 | FEEM working papers "Note di lavoro" series |
规范类型 | 论文 |
Voluntary Agreements with Industries: Participation Incentives with Industry-wide Targets | |
Na Li Dawson; Kathleen Segerson | |
发表日期 | 2000 |
出处 | Climate Change and Sustainable Development |
出版年 | 2000 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | We develop a multiple-firm model of an industry's voluntary adoption of environmental protection measures to achieve a predetermined industry-wide emissions reduction target under an explicit threat of imposition of an emissions tax. We examine the free-riding incentive of individual firms and its impact on the viability of a voluntary approach to pollution control (VA). We find that despite the free-riding problem, there is an incentive for a sub-group of firms in an industry to participate in a VA. There always exists an equilibrium VA with at least one firm participating. A VA is strictly preferred by firms and an industry as a whole, although it is cost inefficient from society's point of view. However, if a VA can save transaction costs significantly relative to an emissions tax, it could still be socially preferred. Finally we show that the free-riding problem does not necessarily get worse with an increase in industry size. However, the cost saving to the industry and the loss to the society (excluding transaction costs) increase with the size of an industry. |
特色分类 | K32,D21,Q28 |
关键词 | Voluntary agreement,voluntary approach,environmental protection,free-riding,emissions tax |
URL | https://www.feem.it/en/publications/feem-working-papers-note-di-lavoro-series/voluntary-agreements-with-industries-participation-incentives-with-industry-wide-targets/ |
来源智库 | Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (Italy) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/116565 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Na Li Dawson,Kathleen Segerson. Voluntary Agreements with Industries: Participation Incentives with Industry-wide Targets. 2000. |
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