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Strategic Emission Fees: Using Green Technology to Deter Entry

Strategic Emission Fees: Using Green Technology to Deter Entry We consider a sequential-move game in which a polluting monopolist chooses whether to acquire a green technology, and a potential entrant responds deciding whether to join the market and, upon entry, whether to invest in clean technology. Our paper compares two models: one in which environmental regulation is strategically set before firms’ decisions; and another where regulation is selected after firms’ entry and investment decisions. We show that a proactive regulation that strategically anticipates firms’ behavior can implement different market structures. In particular, policy makers can choose emission fees to induce competition and/or investment in clean technology, giving rise to market structures that maximize social welfare. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png "Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade" Springer Journals

Strategic Emission Fees: Using Green Technology to Deter Entry

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2019 by Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature
Subject
Economics; Industrial Organization; Economic Policy; R & D/Technology Policy; European Integration; Microeconomics; International Economics
ISSN
1566-1679
eISSN
1573-7012
DOI
10.1007/s10842-019-00292-6
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Abstract

We consider a sequential-move game in which a polluting monopolist chooses whether to acquire a green technology, and a potential entrant responds deciding whether to join the market and, upon entry, whether to invest in clean technology. Our paper compares two models: one in which environmental regulation is strategically set before firms’ decisions; and another where regulation is selected after firms’ entry and investment decisions. We show that a proactive regulation that strategically anticipates firms’ behavior can implement different market structures. In particular, policy makers can choose emission fees to induce competition and/or investment in clean technology, giving rise to market structures that maximize social welfare.

Journal

"Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade"Springer Journals

Published: Jan 30, 2019

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