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Voluntary environmental agreements, emission taxes and international trade: The importance of the timing of strategies
Conrad, Klaus - 1999
The purpose of the paper is to narrow the gap between the widespread use of voluntary agreements and research on the rationale of such approaches. A typical example are voluntary agreements of many industries to reduce carbon dioxide emissions because of global warming. If the industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608503
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Cheap Talk, Gullibility, and Welfare in an Environmental Taxation Game
Deissenberg, Christophe; Dawid, Herbert; Sevcik, Pavel - 2004
We consider a simple dynamic model of environmental taxation that exhibits time inconsistency. There are two categories of firms, Believers, who take the tax announcements made by the Regulator to face value, and Non-Believers, who perfectly anticipate the Regulator's decisions, albeit at a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011325007
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Endogenous environmental policy when pollution is transboundary
Fünfgelt, Joachim; Schulze, Günther G. - 2011
We analyze the formation of environmental policy to regulate transboundary pollution if governments are self … be too high if environmental interests and pollution-intensity of production are very strong; under different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286619
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Environmental Policy, Firm Location, And Product Differentiation: The Role of Green Preferences and Inter-firm Pollution
Kuhn, Michael - 1997
-firm pollution alleviate the tendency of firms to delocate into the region with the weaker regulation; then, a deregulatory race to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319313
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Signaling with performance and the effect of competition
Suzuki, Toru - 2010
Candidates compete to persuade a decision maker. The decision maker wishes to select a candidate who possesses a certain ability. Then, as a signaling, each candidate decides whether to perform a task whose performance statistically reflects the ability. However, since the cost of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281680
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Transboundary Externalities and Property Rights: An International River Pollution Model
van der Laan, Gerard; Moes, Nigel - 2012
In this paper we study international river pollution problems. We introduce a model in which the agents (countries …) located along a river derive benefit while causing pollution, but also incur environmental costs of experiencing pollution … from all upstream agents. We find that total pollution in the model decreases when the agents decide to cooperate. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326271
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Hormone beefs, chloridric chicken and international trade: Can scientific uncertainty be an informational barrier to trade?
Calzolari, Giacomo; Immordino, Giovanni - 2000
We study international trade of innovative goods subject to scientific uncertainty on consumers' health effects. Trade of these goods is often at the centre of international disputes. We show that a new trade protectionism may arise because of the scientific uncertainty. A free riding effect is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608574
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Delegation and information revelation
Gautier, Axel; Paolini, Dimitri - 2000
This paper addresses the question of delegation in an organisation where there is an initial asymmetry of information between the principal and the agent. We assume that the principal cannot use revelation techniques à la Baron Myerson to elicit agent's superior information and in contrast, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608611
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Bug-fixing and code-writing : the private provision of open source software
Bitzer, Jürgen; Schröder, Philipp J. H. - 2002
Open source software (OSS) is a public good. A self-interested individual would consider providing such software, if the benefits he gained from having it justified the cost of programming. Nevertheless each agent is tempted to free ride and wait for others to develop the software instead. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260804
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Delegation and Information Revelation
Gautier, Axel; Paolini, Dimitri - 2002
to elicit the agent's private information. We establish this result by using the properties of signalling game. Finally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263055