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This paper analyzes the interaction between two political economy decisions by a government: whether to privatize a public firm and what environmental policy to choose (an environmental tax or an emission standard). We find that when market competition is weak the government does not privatize...
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We investigate the possibility of using public firms to regulate polluting emissions in a Cournot oligopoly where production takes place at constant returns to scale and entails a negative environmental externality. We model the problem as a differential game and investigate (i) the Cournot-Nash...
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We investigate the possibility of using public firms to regulate polluting emissions in a Cournot oligopoly where production takes place at constant returns to scale and entails a negative environmental externality. We model the problem as a differential game and investigate (i) the Cournot-Nash...
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We charaterise the socially optimal mix of firms in an oligopoly with both profit-seeking and labour-managed firms. The policy maker faces a twofold externality: (i) production entails the exploitation of a common pool natural resource and (ii) production/consumption pollutes the environment. We...
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This paper analyzes the interaction between two political economy decisions by a government: whether to privatize a public firm and what environmental policy to choose (an environmental tax or an emission standard). We find that when market competition is weak the government does not privatize...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858455
privatization in the presence of the environmental pollution. When the residents' environmental preference is introduced to the … public firm's objective function, we mainly find that privatization may increase the public firm's output, decrease the … studies on privatization. Moreover, Cournot competition and Stackelberg competition are separately analyzed to show that our …
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We discuss optimal privatization policies in mixed oligopolies in which a public firm is the Stackelberg follower … (private leadership). We find that under constant marginal cost, the optimal degree of privatization is zero. When the marginal … cost is increasing, however, the optimal degree is never zero, and full privatization can be optimal. These results suggest …
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improves domestic social welfare, as it allows the public firm to lower its poaching price. In both cases, privatization is …
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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of privatization in a mixed duopoly, where a private firm …). Furthermore, we analyze the effect of privatization on the timing of competition by endogenezing the determination of simultaneous … especially relevant for the analysis of privatization, given that results and policy prescription emerged in the literature …
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